Organic Gardening Magazine, August / September 2010
Climate change may increase the likelihood of summer droughts or leaf-shredding hailstorms, but individual weather events will determine our tomato harvests.
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Foxcroft Magazine, Spring 2010
...Ultimately, Northrup believes education is responsible for “the continuity of culture…” and that educators’ most important task is “helping the next generation of humans understand what it is to be human.” This is no small responsibility. These are not simple questions to ask. And none of this is easily distilled into multiple choice questions on a pop quiz...
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American Forests Magazine, Winter 2010
Ultimately, climate change will draw new lines between species and ecosystems. Some changes may be subtle and hard to notice, such as the gradual decline of coastal redwood forests over the coming centuries. Other changes will be hard to miss. . . .
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Virginia Wildlife, January 2010
Rising seas, raging storms, and damaging flood waters that seem to never recede. Submerged houses. Eroded barrier islands. Such coastal horrors may be reminiscent of New Orleans, but the bayou is not the only coastal region that should be paying close attention to climate change and its associated threats.
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Smithsonian Zoogoer, May / June 2009
Clouded leopards are reluctant partners in their own salvation. Difficult, secretive, and unlike any other cat, they defy most scientists’ attempts to understand them and, possibly, save them.
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Flavor Magazine, April / May 2009
When Amy Goins offered to take me hunting for morels, the caveat was that I’d need to travel blindfolded in the trunk of the car. She told me she was kidding—sort of. The truth is that avid morel hunters are fiercely protective of their favorite spots and aren’t likely to reveal their secrets to anyone. . . .
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Smithsonian.com, March 2009
Rarely has a birth been so anticipated, or the wait so suspenseful. On March 24, for the first time in 16 years, the Smithsonian’s National Zoo’s Conservation and Research Center celebrated the birth of clouded leopard cubs. . . .
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Cristina Santiestevan is an environmental writer and communications consultant. She writes about issues as varied as clouded leopards in Thailand, climate change in American forests and mushroom foraging in the Blue Ridge Mountains. Her work appears in magazines, museum exhibits and nonprofit publications.