Contents

COVER PHOTO : A Brother’s tuatara waits for the sun;
COVER HEADLINE : HOT PROSPECTS - Warming threatens our Wildlife;
CONTENTS - Departments :
EDITORIAL; NEW ZEALAND GEOGRAPHIC TRUST; VIEWFINDER [Petr Hlavacek]; GeoNEWS [skinks, rats, dolphins]; ARTIFACT [Loaded provenance]; TECHNOLOGY [Timber, grass]; GREAT WALKS [Harpers Pass]; VIEWPOINT [Climate for Change]; WEATHER [Climactic climates]; PROFILE [John Lee; Snowfarming]; SIR PETER BLAKE TRUST; LONGVIEW [Sierra Range]; BOOKS [Tall Tales, Wider World, NZ Science]; FLASHBACK [Social security]; IN THE FIELD [Erick Brenstrum]; PARTING SHOT [Dining at Nature’s Table];
CONTENTS - Features :
WHAT WILL HAPPEN - WILDLIFE : 2 DEGREES FROM OBLIVION [Some of our most iconic species will be driven to extinction inside the century. We look at those most at risk from a changing climate and the desperate conservation efforts employed to save them];
WHO WILL FALL - SOCIETY : POWERING THE NATION [Around the country scientists and innovators are devising processes and contraptions in a bid to reduce carbon dioxide emissions from industry and agriculture, sequester it beneath the earth and find alternative fuels];
CAN WE FIGHT IT - SCIENCE : THE HEAT IS ON [A couple of months ago NIWA released the lastest climate projections for New Zealand. Will it rain more in Paraparaumu? Will Auckland be like Sydney? All will be revealed];
CONTENTS - Special Global Report :
NORTH AMERICA : LAND OF THE MIDNIGHT SUN [In Canada’s Arctic Inuit are struggling to adapt to a warmer world, and a life without the ice];
AFRICA : SPOILS OF KILIMANJARO [Africa’s highest mountain feeds the farmland and towns in its shadow, but the water is running out];
ANTARCTICA : THE DEFROSTING CONTINENT [The Antarctic Peninsula is warming rapidly threatening wildlife that depends on the oceans that surround it];
EUROPE : REAP WHAT YOU SOW [As the continent warms, winemakers in Europe are reaping the richest harvest ever, but it may not last];