Salon.com has an excellent series of article on climate change Early Signs: Reports from a Warming Planet
Twilight of an ancient knowledge
For centuries, New Zealand's Maoris have used intimate observation of nature to harvest eels and predict the weather. That marvelous legacy is endangered by climate change.
The woes of Kilimanjaro
The fabled glaciers on Tanzania's majestic mountain will soon be gone. Its forests are disappearing, too. For local farmers, this could mean disaster. For the rest of us, it's another unbearable loss on an overheating planet.
Before the flood
Global warming is threatening Bangladesh's coast. But the area's tens of millions of residents don't want to move.
The vanishing of a tropical nation
Rising seas are swamping the 33-island republic of Kiribati. Where will its 100,000 inhabitants go when their country becomes uninhabitable?
The heat on Ecuador
Global warming is vanquishing ancient glaciers throughout South America, killing crops and threatening the water source for millions.
When the water runs out
Ecuador's crops, its power grid and the drinking water for its largest city are all threatened by climate change.
Tuvalu is drowning
The island nation is slowly being inundated as the ocean rises, and some citizens are fleeing. How will the world handle a flood of "climate refugees"?
The disappearing sardines
As Lake Tanganyika in Africa grows warmer, its massive schools of silvery fish get smaller. And nearby villagers say goodbye to their way of life.
The bears of Churchill
In the "Polar Bear Capital of the World," vanishing ice is threatening to wipe out the polar bears -- and the town's livelihood. But Churchill's inhabitants say they'll survive.
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