World Watch articles from November 1998

World Watch archives from November 1998

Cloudy, with a chance of malaria. (global climate change and ecological invasion)(Editorial)
November 1, 1998... Every day, perhaps 50 million insects, spiders, and other tiny arthropods drift out of the sky and onto the volcanic rocks of the little Indonesian island of Krakatau. These immigrants come mainly from neighboring islands, where the winds have...

As temperature rises, so does water.
November 1, 1998... World Watch may appear to some readers to have stumbled into a blind turn with its July/August cover story headlining "The Drying of China." About two weeks after that issue came out, the disastrous flooding of the Yangtze River hit the news....

Alien threat. (introduced species supplanting native ones)(Environmental Intelligence)
November 1, 1998... Forty-nine percent of the species threatened with extinction in the United States are in trouble at least partly because of non-native "exotic" species, according to a study published in the August 1998 issue of Bioscience. An exotic species is a...

Last tango in Buenos Aires. (climate treaty negotiations in Buenos Aires, Argentina)
November 1, 1998... WHILE CLIMATE TREATY NEGOTIATORS DANCE ON WITH THEIR SLOW GIVE-AND-TAKE, THE CLIMATE ITSELF IS RUNNING AMOK. When the Kyoto Protocol was signed a year ago, hopes ran high that the world was finally on the way to reducing carbon dioxide...

Can the North and South get in step? (industrial and developing countries address climate change issue)
November 1, 1998... While industrial nations have been dragging their feet, poor nations have been learning moves that will spur their development while countering climate change. But to pick up the pace, they'll need a helping hand - not finger-pointing - from...

Bogging down in the sinks. (using trees as carbon sinks in the prevention of global warming)
November 1, 1998... Under the Kyoto Protocol, a country may be able to reduce its obligation to cut carbon emissions by "sinking" some carbon in trees. But greenhouse forestry won't necessarily be good for the forests - and it certainly won't prevent climate change....