Feeling the Heat: Dispatches from the Frontlines of Climate Change
million people will live in Washington, Oregon, Idaho, and Montana. That is like adding another state the current size of Oregon ...
FEAR OFFLOODING It couldn’t be happening in a worse place. The Pacific Northwest is already universally known for its rainy clim ...
flood will occur based on past weather patterns. The biggest inunda- tion you would expect over a decade is known as a “10-year ...
“On the Columbia River, there’s a very sad history for sockeye salmon in general. In the late 1800s, there were over half a mill ...
sockeye has been October 19. During the prior cooler years (1947 to 1985), the average peak spawn date was October 11. This dela ...
rearing season began with more than 150,000 juvenile salmon in the central basin of Osoyoos Lake. By mid-October, 95 percent had ...
region’s financially troubled power marketer, Bonneville Power Administration, will not have that water available later in the s ...
Richard Gammon is considered Dr. Doom by some. He recalls putting studded tires on his car in winter, but, thanks to newfound wa ...
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Puking penguins and global warming may not, on first blush, appear to have much in common. But as I discovered in Antarctica, sc ...
But down by the water’s edge adelie penguins are jumping ashore clean, wet, and plump from the icy Southern Ocean, cute enough t ...
belly slides and paddle walks away, looking somewhat indignant, as penguins often do. Returning to the bucket, Fraser, Irinaga, ...
It is made up of a group of blue and white pre-fab metal buildings, with two big fuel tanks, front loaders, snowmobiles and ship ...
Canada, Greenland, at the North Pole, and here on the Antarctic Peninsula. One way that we know there is more heat-trapping CO2 ...
ent species such as adelie penguins, crabeater seals (that actually eat krill), and leopard seals (that eat krill, penguins, oth ...
Fraser is amused and, also one suspects, quite moved as he is handed a framed illustrated certificate and digital photo of Frase ...
sents an abandoned adelie colony (they use pebbles as nest-building material). He has been studying seventy-two colonies in a 40 ...
Half an hour later, I am waving off Antarctica’s answer to a ptero- dactyl, a dive-bombing skua. Somewhere along the line these ...
ing at her, spreading its 6-foot wing span as she reaches underneath it and pulls out a downy white chick. The brooding bird set ...
explains. “They’re individually long lived. I’m working with a breeding female that was first banded in 1965. They’re also small ...
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