Volume 10, Number 3
Features
Is a Warmer World a Sicker World?
As scientists piece together how climate impacts disease, strange patterns are emerging: mosquito outbreaks can follow drought, shorter migrations can make butterflies sick, and more birds (not fewer) can ward off West Nile virus.
By Roberta Kwok
Operation Sex Change
Imagine waking up to discover that your mother, your sister, and your friends’ wives are all men. That could be reality for invasive fish if a radical plan to exterminate them takes shape.
By Cynthia Mills
On the Fence
People construct fences, sometimes across whole continents, on the poetic assumption that good fences make good neighbors. Unfortunately, for wildlife, gated communities are rarely tranquil.
By Doug Fox
Innovations
Winging It Feather-like spines could reduce vehicles’ fuel consumption
Escape Artist The supremely flexible octopus inspires a new generation of robots
Carbon Gets Stoned Injecting CO2 into subsurface rocks could provide permanent storage
Telltale Stripes Wrapping virtual skins on 3-D models helps track individual tigers
Lighten Up
Cartoons by Pete Mueller. Print Only.
Essay
Growing in the Dark Print Only. By Nalini Nadkarni
Journal Watch
Cambodia’s Trail of Guns
Back to Nature
A Drink or Drive Issue
The Forest Giveth and Taketh Away
Undocumented Immigrants
Boom Towns Busted
Bite the Bullet
Sponge Surgery
Scat from Space
Trial by Fire
Much Abuzz About Nothing?
Book Marks
Think Again
Go North and Multiply Print Only by Catherine Brahic