Juliette Jowit and Robin McKie The Observer, Sunday March 16 2008 Article history This article appeared in the Observer on Sunday March 16 2008 on p1 of the News section. It was last updated at 09:11 on March 16 2008. Trekkers crossing Gangotri glacier in Indian Haimalayas. Photograph: Alamy The world’s glaciers are melting [...]

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Climate Change Takes Bloom Off Wildflowers | LiveScience Annotated By Andrea Thompson, LiveScience Staff Writer posted: 14 March 2008 09:08 am ET Fewer flowers may grace the slopes of the Rocky Mountains as global warming’s earlier springtimes make blooms more vulnerable, a new study suggests. David Inouye of the University of Maryland used data gathered [...]

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Scientific American: Plants Don’t Like Greenhouse Effect Annotated Fossil remains indicate that insects actually eat more plant material when the planet is warmer. Karen Hopkin reports. According to a new study, published in the February 12 issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences… plants, too, are likely to face problems as the [...]

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Clive Thompson on How the Next Victim of Climate Change Will Be Our Minds Annotated scores of Australians described their deep, wrenching sense of loss as they watch the landscape around them change. “They no longer feel like they know the place they’ve lived for decades,” he says. Albrecht believes that this is a new [...]

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Letter from North Carolina: A Death in the Forest: Reporting & Essays: The New Yorker Annotated   Excerpts of an abstract–In 1951, an Asian insect known as the hemlock woolly adelgid was discovered near a park in Richmond, Virginia, which contained imported evergreens.   Describes how globalization and climate change affect the spread of invasive [...]

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