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...legendary snows of Kilimanjaro, are disappearing from mountaintops around the globe. Coral reefs are dying off as the seas get too warm for comfort. Drought is the norm in parts of Asia and Africa. El Ni?o events, which trigger devastating weather in the eastern Pacific, are more frequent. The Arctic permafrost is starting to melt. Lakes and rivers in colder climates are freezing later and thawing earlier each year. Plants and animals are shifting their ranges poleward and to higher altitudes, and migration patterns for animals as diverse as polar bears, butterflies and beluga whales are being disrupted...
...marketing coup of the century: take a frozen lava field on the edge of the Arctic Circle, where the skiing is not great, the food is overpriced and the capital city is a windswept collection of multicolored concrete boxes, and turn it into one of the world's hottest winter vacation spots. How does Iceland do it? By touting its reputation for swinging nightclubs packed with platinum-haired babes and hearty Nordic men, its unspoiled natural wonders and, not least, the low-priced winter deals offered by Icelandair, which enjoys a monopoly on air service...
...director of Britain's Windrush Management, chose Iceland for a company holiday. Why? "If we went to Tenerife, we'd just hang around on the beach and drink, mon, so we decided to branch out," says this burly, dreadlocked native of Jamaica after a day of snowboarding in the Arctic cold. "This is one of the few places I've ever been where you're planning to return even before you leave...
...Arctic Pipe Dreams...
...leave one last place undesecrated by our insatiable lust for oil [NATION, Feb. 19]? If the U.S.'s national security depends on the exploration and drilling of Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge as one lobbyist would have us believe, shouldn't the country become less dependent on this nonrenewable source of energy? A majority of Americans responding to your poll opposed drilling in ANWR, yet oilmen George W. Bush and Dick Cheney will pursue ramming this exploration down America's throat. ANWR is not the solution to our energy problems; conservation and development of renewable sources of power...