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From relentless rains to devastating droughts, the effects of the climate upheaval known as El Nino are still being felt. Last week, for example, out-of-control forest fires in rain-starved Mexico continued to send clouds of smoke into the U.S., spreading haze from Houston to Denver. But if El Nino's immediate impact on people has been hard to miss, there are equally important, if less obvious consequences for wildlife. In the oceans as well as on land, many animals are struggling to find enough to eat, while others--including disease-bearing rodents and insects--are unexpectedly flourishing...
...only had time to answer four letters today," she frets. Besides her cell phone, pager and walkie-talkie, Butterfly also has a radio and a solar-powered battery charger. She reads her poetry, written on the inside of Ronzoni pasta cartons, and tells of how one night El Nino's freezing rains and 40-m.p.h. winds nearly tore her off the 8-ft. by 8-ft. platform. "I thought I was going to die," she recalls...
...forest fires raging on the island of Borneo have been giving Southeast Asians alarming flashbacks to the Great Haze of 1997. In some ways this year's blazes, stoked by the drought caused by El Nino, have been even worse, spreading into remote reaches of the virgin rain forest. Since January, hundreds of fires have claimed 700,000 acres of woodland, casting a pall of smoke over the Indonesian province of East Kalimantan and the Malaysian states of Sabah and Sarawak. While recent rains have quenched many of the fires, the situation remains volatile. Moreover, the whole world may feel...
...Nino is as natural a pattern as are the seasons [SCIENCE, Feb. 16], since it is not produced by human actions. But global warming has an effect on El Nino, because it influences the climate of the whole earth and enforces natural extremes, droughts as well as floods. Temperature differences increase, and that causes more and heavier storms and other natural catastrophes. You have to pay attention to all the connections in climate because everything is related. You cannot separate one phenomenon from the climate as a whole. THOMAS FEHER and BENJAMIN GREIFF Dresden, Germany...
...colored clothing was painfully out of place in this burg, so humming U2 (no tape-deck in "economy" rentals) we hurried on our way. Joshua Tree, not surprisingly, was filled with Joshua trees, but it offered little in the way of generations and lots in the way of El Nino-induced drizzle. So with the prototypical National Park day of driving, staring at Visitor Center displays, and photographing rock formations with names like "Pirate's Skull" under our belt, we proceeded to that locus of unique inter-generational experiences--Leisure World, home to Abby's grandmother and 22,000 other...