all ethnic groups is the Fiji Human Rights Commission (online at http://www.human-
rights.org.fj).
CHAPTERNINE
Sally Deneen gathered material for this chapter starting in 2000, but mainly in 2003, while
on assignment in her home region, the Pacific Northwest.
Scientists at the Climate Impacts Group of the University of Washington continue to
research how the region’s snowpack, hydropower, salmon, forests, and other mainstays are
impacted by climate change, and their continually updated work and past publications are
posted online at http://tao.atmos.washington.edu/PNWimpacts/Infogate.htm. Abstracts of
some papers and scientific presentations referenced in this chapter—including sockeye
salmon’s woes, the region’s shrinking snowpack and floods—can be found online, among
others presented at the 2003 Georgia Basin/Puget Sound Research Conference held in Vancouver,
British Columbia, at http://www.psat.wa.gov/Publications/2003research/RC2003.htm.
The reader can learn more about the incredible shrinking glaciers of North Cascades
National Park and research there at the following websites: http://www.nichols.edu/depart-
ments/glacier/ and http://www.nps.gov/noca/massbalance.htm. Historic photos of glaciers
are found in “Glaciers of the Conterminous United States” by Robert M. Krimmel (since
retired), at http://pubs.usgs.gov/prof/p1386j/us/westus-lores.pdf. The early blooming of
lilacs and honeysuckle is reported on in “Changes in the Onset of Spring in the Western
United States,” Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, March 2001, p. 399.
General information about the impact of climate change on the region is available in
“Impacts of Climate Change: Pacific Northwest” by University of Washington scientists
Philip Mote and Nate Mantua (online at http://jisao.washington.edu/PNWimpacts/
Publications/es.pdf ). It is also discussed in “In Hot Water: A Snapshot of the Northwest’s
Changing Climate” by Patrick Mazza of Climate Solutions (online at http://www.climate
solutions.org/pubs/inHotWater.html).
Deneen, whose reporting on the effects of climate change in Florida won the Charlie
Award (first place) for in-depth reporting from the Florida Magazine Association in 2002,
wishes to acknowledge Seattle-based environment reporter Robert McClure, her husband, for
assistance with the hydropower and irrigation portions of this chapter.
CHAPTERTEN
David Helvarg traveled to Antarctica in 1999 and 2000 is part of a National Science
Foundation program that allows several professional journalists to visit there each year. For
more on NSF’s Antarctic work, go to its Office of Polar Programs website at
http://nsf.gov/od/opp.
For more of the author’s reporting on Antarctica, see chapter 6, “A Rising Tide,” in his
book Blue Frontier: Saving America’s Living Seas(New York: Owl Books, 2002).
When not on the ice (during the austral winter), penguin scientist Bill Fraser can be con-
tacted at [email protected]. Giant petrel scientist Donna Patterson may also be reached at
[email protected].
The fossil-fuel-driven climate change they are observing on the Antarctic Peninsula is the
most significant but not the only human threat to Antarctica’s environment. For more than
a quarter century, the Antarctic and Southern Ocean Coalition (ASOC), made up of some 140
nongovernment organizations in over 40 nations, has been working to protect the world’s
last wild continent from environmental harm. It can be contacted through its website at
http://www.asoc.org.
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