National Wildlife articles from August 1995

National Wildlife archives from August 1995

Is the earth heating up?
August 1, 1995... Weather data for 1994 show that after a cooling period from 1992 to 1993, the globe's surface temperature returned to the high levels of the 1980s, the warmest decade on record. The cooling apparently stemmed from the Mt. Pinatubo eruption in the...

Having owls and jobs too.
August 1, 1995... In the state where protection of the northern spotted owl was supposed to destroy jobs, a booming economy debunks the "owl-vs.-jobs" premise Sawing down 200-year-old trees was just about the only thing former logger John Dark ever wanted to...

The private lives of pit vipers.
August 1, 1995... New research on rattlesnakes may help in the protection of the world's dwindling serpents On this warm October afternoon in the craggy Chiricahua Mountains, Kevin Costner is sunning his body on a rock. Honest, right here in lovely southeastern...

Winning water for Keysville. (Georgia)
August 1, 1995... In the struggle to bring safe drinking water to her Georgia town, Mayor Emma Gresham found herself fighting for civil rights Emma Gresham will never take clean drinking water for granted. Like most of her fellow residents of Keysville, a tiny...

Do lions purr? And why are there no green mammals?
August 1, 1995... Once again, National Wildlife answers 10 pressing questions about the animal kingdom Time again to dig through the mail-bag for questions about wildlife that have lately vexed, intrigued or otherwise baffled our readers. So, without further...

Why trees need birds. (songbirds)
August 1, 1995... Scientists say the health of American forests may depend on songbirds, many of which are in decline When Robert Marquis and Christopher Whelan had an idea six years ago that songbirds flitting about a woodland might be having a profound effect...