Volume 9, Number 2
Features
DO TREES GROW ON MONEY? Cover Story
After years of failed attempts to merge market economics with rainforest conservation, the US$60 billion carbon market might finally be the ticket. That is, if money is all it’s going to take.
by Fred Pearce
IDENTITY CRISIS
Hybridization can be both a creative and a destructive force. And it’s on the rise. Should we embrace it or quash it?
by Douglas Fox
A WITNESS TO VIOLENCE
Long before the Darfur crisis, Michael Fay foresaw that the murderous Sudanese horsemen would not stop at killing elephants.
by J. Michael Fay
Innovations
CATCH YOU LATER
New lunar calendar tells Hawaiians when not to fish
by Christopher Pala
GYN-ECOLOGY
Vaginal transmitter locates newborn deer
by John Weier
TURN SIGNALS
Submersible device unravels mysterious navigation skills of baby fish
by Eric Wagner
UNDERWATER ELECTRIC KITES
A new class of free-flow turbines could help replace dams
by John Weier
WHEN LEMURS FLY
Tiny high-tech backpack tracks colugos gliding through the forest
by Eric Wagner
Lighten Up
101 FUNNY THINGS ABOUT GLOBAL WARMING Print Only
by Sidney Harris & Colleagues
Numbers In Context
IS IT CONTAGIOUS?
Lethal diseases that make the jump from animals to humans are on the rise
Essay
UNORIGINAL SIN Print Only
by Alan Burdick
Journal Watch
As outdoor recreation wanes, will conservation commitment go with it?
Malnourished seabirds dying from bycatch junkfood
Beavers are drought insurance
Endangered macaws dependent on their worst enemy
Fish invasions linked to GDP
Reduced tariffs benefit wildlife
Vermont forests moving uphill
Think Again
Dangerous Games
by Catherine Brahic