Feeling the Heat: Dispatches from the Frontlines of Climate Change
“Throughout the ’70s we saw various problems but constantly clear waters with typical hundred-foot visibility,” Causey recalls. ...
I do. As a teen, I snorkeled through Keys’ waters so clear and vibrant with exotic life and color they were almost scary. After ...
Angeles and on to Sydney where, during a 7-hour layover, I call an Australian journalist friend who gives me the name of one of ...
ing for cattle and new developments along the coast,” Tager says. “There’s talk of a gas pipeline, plus the oil industry keeps p ...
human development, run-off and cyclones (or hurricanes as they are known in the Florida Keys). I am visiting Magnetic Island fol ...
glass-and-concrete research complex, and just beyond it down a brushy path is 5 miles of wilderness beach facing out on the worl ...
Having seen dead coral, I decide to take a diving trip to Kelso, one of the outer reefs that has recovered from the little bleac ...
this feudal system finally ended in 1916, forty thousand Indians opted to stay on. Today Indo-Fijians make up almost half of Fij ...
tively in a white short-sleeve shirt and brown business skirt or sulu vakataga. He sports a neat graying mustache, wears glasses ...
islanders’ crops and salting their freshwater. The nine hundred resi- dents had to have freshwater shipped in for the next 8 mon ...
nations and oil companies on behalf of those whose islands and cul- tures are being drowned. We talk in the Centra conference ro ...
“Really? I thought they were supposed to be white like that,” she says. It is what scientists call a shifting baseline. If you h ...
Chaudhry and his cabinet hostage. This sets off a series of riots, killings, and a military coup. The tourist economy falters. A ...
It feels as if a giant meat locker has swung open, sending a cold, yet thin, wind blowing down South Cascade Glacier just outsid ...
“It’s very easy to see the glacier is much, much smaller,” Krimmel says later, back at his office at U.S. Geological Survey (USG ...
next century. The surprises are as varied as the region itself, from the dangerously delayed spawning of salmon in British Colum ...
many researchers repeat again and again that the changes are consis- tent with such a warming. Even cautious, middle-of-the-road ...
WARM-WEATHERMIGRANTS Lisa Crozier holds no doubt that warmer weather has led to her dis- tinction of being the first person to d ...
She expects the opportunistic skipper will spread its range further, going over the mountain pass to the west side of the Cascad ...
Not only are glaciers thinning: In the last half-century, the warm- ing climate has made snow “drier”—reducing the water content ...
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