Alaska and Hawaii
"As Alaska Glaciers Melt, It’s Land That’s Rising"
"Alaskan Lake's Fate Could Echo Across Continent"
Troubles In Paradise:SEJ Members Study Tropical Ecosystems In Hawai'i
By JENNIFER OLADIPO
SEJ members Joy Horowitz, Erin K.D. Judd, Charlotte Kidd and Jennifer Oladipo were four of seven environmental reporting fellows at the National Tropical Botanical Garden in Hawai'i in May.
Magic Number: a Sketchy "Fact" About Polar Bears Keeps Going...And Going... And Going
By PETER DYKSTRA
When Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne announced the listing of the polar bear as a threatened species in May, the political trench warfare over global warming flared up anew. Environmental groups professed surprise that a reluctant Bush Administration acted at all. Global warming deniers said the decision was ludicrous. They cited a polar bear population — a five-fold increase since the 1970s, a doubling since the 1950s, a quadrupling since the 1960s.