• Climate pushing lemmings to cliff
• Climate change. Wild Weather Odyssey
  A new simple-to-use global index reveals the true extent of climate change over the next century. It is the first to map how global warming will combine with natural variations in climate to affect the planet, giving policy-makers a quick overview of the scientific facts while enabling them to compare the severity of extreme predicted climate events such as heat-waves or floods.
  

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• Lowland gorilla numbers plummet BBC
• Scientists have obtained amazing images of penguins interacting with each other underwater by strapping miniature cameras to the flightless birds' backs. BBC

Bison have nowhere left to roam

• 2003 summer hottest in 500 years (BBC)
  The scorching heatwave in Europe made last summer the hottest in five centuries, a study says.
• Trace arsenic in water raises cancer risk (New Scientist)
  Trace levels of arsenic in drinking water increase a person's risk of developing cancer, according to a report from the prestigious US National Academy of Sciences. "Even very low concentrations appear to be associated with a higher incidence of cancer," says Robert Goyer, professor of pathology at the University of Western Ontario, who chaired the NAS investigating committee
• Kyoto begins at home
  Family values could help cut greenhouse gases.
  22 August 2001
  Protocol dictates: creating a backyard carbon sink. Š Photodisc Although the US government refuses to endorse the Kyoto protocol, people could sign up to the treaty at an individual level, a UK environmental scientist suggests.
  Full text: http://www.nature.com/nsu/010823/010823-9.html
  
  
• US Navy sonar experiments and dolphins
• Can organic waste become the nation's next big power source?
• Conservation isn't all doom and gloom: Conservation successes are more common than people think. Many species are on the road to recovery. In the US, the bald eagle and the relict trillium are no longer declining. Better still, the brown pelican and the Mississippi alligator might no longer need the protection of the US Endangered Species Act. In Europe, the ibex has been successfully reintroduced in the Alps. Sparrowhawks and goshawks have recovered in many parts of the world after the banning of certain pesticides.
• Rotting vegetation in hydroelectric dams stokes global warming
• International Conference on Transboundary Environmental Issues in Central and Eastern Europe
• Amphibian decline