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...Alaska, salmon populations are at risk as melting permafrost pours mud into rivers, burying the gravel the fish need for spawning. Small animals such as bushy-tailed wood rats, alpine chipmunks and piņon mice are being chased upslope by rising temperatures, following the path of the fleeing trees. And with sea ice vanishing, polar bears--prodigious swimmers but not inexhaustible ones--are starting to turn up drowned. "There will be no polar ice by 2060," says Larry Schweiger, president of the National Wildlife Federation. "Somewhere along that path, the polar bear drops...
...local" warming. So for Nickels and his constituents, climate change is about the Cascade Mountains, where the city gets its water and hydropower and where the snowpack has shrunk by half over the past 50 years. It's about the effect of Puget Sound's warmer waters on wild-salmon runs. It's about hotter summers cooking up more smog. It's about a rise in sea level that could flood Seattle's port. "The stakes are high--globally and locally," he says. "We need...
...Sources of Vitamin D and Calcium: ? Vitamin D (400 IU to 600 IU needed daily): sunlight (as much as 20,000 IU in 15 min. at midday), salmon (103 IU per oz., or 28 g), fortified milk (12.5 per fl. oz. [30 ml]), fortified orange juice (12.5) ? Calcium (1,000 mg to 1,500 mg needed daily): Atlantic sardines (108 mg per oz. [28 g]), canned salmon (68), low-fat plain yogurt (52), tofu (30), canned white beans (21) and regular skim milk...
...Sources of Vitamin D and Calcium Vitamin D (400 IU to 600 IU needed daily): sunlight (as much as 20,000 IU in 15 min. at midday), salmon (103 IU per oz., or 28 g), fortified milk (12.5 per fl. oz. [30 ml]), fortified orange juice...
...Calcium (1,000 mg to 1,500 mg needed daily): Atlantic sardines (108 mg per oz. [28 g]), canned salmon (68), low-fat plain yogurt (52), tofu (30), canned white beans (21) and regular skim milk...