A Crash Course in Climate Change
A new seminar gives Londoners all they ever wanted to know about global warming and were afraid to ask
By Giovanna Dunmall
Donna and Larry Charpied show off their Minerva Hoyt California Desert Conservation Award
Photo by Lindsay Kurz
Melting ice, declining polar bears, expanding dead zones, a momentous presidential race, and the final (almost) twelve months of George W. Bush's environmental malfeasance: 2008 will be perhaps best recalled by environmentalists for what it might bring than what it achieved. With both the global economy and the planet still in meltdown mode, and meaningful international action on climate change remaining a distant pipe-dream, we take a trip down memory lane to round up 2008's most important environmental stories month-by-month.
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