Volume 7, Number 2
Features
DEMOCRATIZING TAXONOMY Cover Story
Imagine a portable DNA barcode scanner that could transform people’s relationship with nature. Could such futuristic technology be to biodiversity what the printing press was to literacy?
by Marguerite Holloway
ENVIRONMENTAL HERESIES
Over the next ten years, the mainstream environmental movement will reverse its opinion and activism on population growth, urban-ization, genetically engineered organisms, and nuclear power.
An Interview with Stewart Brand
GET REAL
Behind the hue and cry over the Kyoto climate change treaty is one nagging but rarely reported reality: even if every nation in the world complied to the hilt, it would hardly approach solving the problem.
by Katherine Ellison
Innovations
SEEING STARS
Using pattern matching tools from astrophysics for shark conservation.
by Nancy Bazilchuk
LIVE ROCK
A new cash crop for the aquarium trade protects Fiji’s reefs.
by Nancy Bazilchuck
BORDER CONTROL
New wildlife Interpol cracks down on organized crime.
by Nancy Bazilchuck
Numbers In Context
WHO’S FEELING THE HEAT?
“Do Americans really differ from people in other countries regarding their understanding of and concern about climate change? The answer is yes—and no.”
Essays
HOW DO YOU MEASURE WHAT YOU CAN’T SEE? Print Only
by Alan Burdick
Journal Watch
Climate-Driven Epidemic Wipes Out Frogs
Ecotourists Will Pay More—a Lot More—to See Birds
Malaria Linked to Deforestation
Invasive Toad Grows Less Toxic
Ship Noise Stresses Freshwater Fish
Eradicating Invasives Backfires
Plantations Drink Streams Dry
Books
From Readers
YOUR LETTERS AND COMMENTS Print Only
Uneasy Chair
AUX BARRICADES!
by Jon Christensen
