| Editor's
Note
A special issue on global climate change: the crisis, and how the world
can confront it.
By David Seideman
Audubon
View
Looking to help save important wildlife habitat? The place to get started
is your own backyard.
By
John Flicker
Letters
Field
Notes
An acid test on clean air; a sparrow makes a comeback in California; getting
the signals straight on communications towers; and more.
Milestone
The Puffin Man
Celebrating Steve Kress and 30 years of Project Puffin.
By
Frank Graham Jr.
Incite
The Pet Offensive
The trade in wild pets kills not only the animals but ecosystems, too.
By
Ted Williams
Earth
Almanac
Collecting cones, and caroling with coyotes and cardinals. Also: turtles
on ice, orb weavers, and great hare days.
By
Ted Williams
True
Nature
Meltdown
Glacier National Park without any glaciers?
If warming trends continue, that could be the case in three decades.
By
Tom Yulsman
Birds
On
Thin Ice
On Antarctica's remote Torgersen Island, things are getting alarmingly
hot for Adélie penguins.
By
Daniel Grossman
The
Auduboner
A Q&A with Carol Browner, Audubon's
new chair; going batty for velvety free-tails in Florida; a Colorado IBA
for the mountain plover; chapter news.
Reviews
Hot Air and Green Dreams
Finally, common ground in the global warming debate.
By
Robert Braile
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Introduction
Global
Warning
For years our political
leaders have fiddled as the earth has steadily warmed. But now,
slowly but surely, a consensus is building that the crisis of
global climate change must be addressed—today.
By
David Malakoff
Global
Warning/Arctic Tundra
The
Hottest Spot
Rising temperatures in the Arctic have produced dramatic shifts
in the tundra landscape. If climate change is having as profound
an effect on the region's plants and animals as it appears,
the long-range global consequences could prove disastrous.
By
Jennifer Bogo
Global
Warning/Prairie Potholes
Pots
of Gold
Farmers in the Upper Midwest have long
seen the seasonal wetlands that dot their land each spring as
obstacles to their prosperity. But now, as scientists understand
the prairie potholes' carbon-storing abilities, what had been
a problem could become the area's newest cash crop.
By
Keith Kloor/Photography by Macduff Everton
Cover
photo by Andrew Geiger
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Global
Warning/Coral Reefs
Color Blindness
Tropical coral reefs are known for their
vibrant diversity and spectacular beauty. However, recent increases
in sea-surface temperatures have caused a phenomenon called bleaching
that is draining the color, and the life, from reefs all over
the world.
By Susan McGrath/Photography by Gary Bell
Global
Warning/Solutions
Playing
It Cool
Sure, the forces driving global climate change seem overwhelming.
But take heart: There are things you—and especially
the government—can do to help turn down the heat.
By
Kelly Turner/Photography by Craig Cutler
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