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Glaciers, including the 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 Nino 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...
...Glaciers, including the 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...
...take the greatest extremes of warming to make life uncomfortable for large numbers of people. Even slightly higher temperatures in regions that are already drought- or flood-prone would exacerbate those conditions. In temperate zones, warmth and increased CO2 would make some crops flourish?at first. But beyond 1.5? of warming, says Bill Easterling, a professor of geography and agronomy at Penn State and a lead author of the IPCC report, "there would be a dramatic turning point. U.S. crop yields would start to decline rapidly." In the tropics, where crops are already at the limit of their temperature range...
Your description of the deplorable situation in Afghanistan's refugee camps stunned me [WORLD, March 5]. In addition to suffering the effects of a three-year drought and U.N. sanctions, Afghans must confront human-rights abuses and appalling treatment of women. Given these factors, why should the world fail to provide humanitarian aid to the people of Afghanistan just because it houses a hated enemy of the West? To hell with Osama bin Laden. We cannot justify victimizing millions because of one terrorist. We must help the Afghans, and we will. SAVI MULL Lucknow, India...
...told a truly harrowing tale of Afghan refugees in Herat and those pouring across the border into already impoverished Pakistan. It is indeed gracious of TIME to give information for making donations for the Afghan drought victims at the end of the article. But would someone with a conscience please ask Uncle Sam to stop the onslaught of reprisals against just one man, Osama bin Laden? RIAZ JAFRI Rawalpindi, Pakistan...