Our warming planet.
Salon continues its outstanding coverage: Reports from a warming planet.
How will water resources, and the humans who depend on them, respond if the ice and trees disappear? What will happen as the world's carbon levels continue to rise? For researchers and policymakers, the answers to these questions may be of academic interest or political concern, but for people like William Kiwali they are a matter of survival.
The time is now to come to grips with the extent and seriousness of this problem. It's no longer just about the damage that's been done, but whether or not it's within our capability to reverse the trend.