Fears for America’s Parched Southwest

Fears for America’s Parched Southwest

Nature Climate Change Volume 1 Issue 8 Nature Climate Change, November 2011 The amazing giant saguaro cactus of Arizona’s Sonoran Desert in the southwestern United States does what its human neighbours cannot. It survives on 8 to 15 inches of annual rainfall. The...
A libertarian thinker in Connecticut

A libertarian thinker in Connecticut

Rose Wilder Lane testifying in 1939 before Congress. She favored the Ludlow Amendment, which would have taken declaring war to a vote of the people. (Library of Congress photo) Connecticut Explored, Fall 2010 Over the past several years, my pursuit of information...
Coffee Growers Facing New Risks

Coffee Growers Facing New Risks

A landslide from too much rain in Colombia (photo courtesy of Equal Exchange) The Yale Forum on Climate Change and the Media, June 7, 2011 That morning ritual, reading the newspaper while sipping coffee, already has given way to peering at the computer over the mug....
It isn’t easy being green

It isn’t easy being green

Niamh Murtagh studies why people waste energy at home, even when they know they shouldn’t. Since this story appeared in Nature Climate Change’s inaugural issue of March 2011, Murtagh has changed her affiliation to University College London and continues to...