Winter 2010

Volume
59
Number
1
Winter 2010 AWI Quarterly Cover - Photo by Rinie Van Meurs/Foto Natura, Minden Picture
About the Cover

Alone on a disappearing ice floe, an Arctic polar bear stands at the precipice of global warming. With life as he knows it threatened by greenhouse gasses, and resulting rising temperatures and declining sea ice, in addition to international trade in the species and its parts, the earth’s largest terrestrial carnivore (called Isbjorn, or ice bear, in Norwegian) faces extinction from a world that has sustained him for 100,000 years. Click here for information on climate change and here for more on endangered species listings.