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Alan Rabinowitz knows tough. The director of the Wildlife Conservation Society's science and exploration program, Rabinowitz made his bones as a young zoologist who would go anywhere to map the shrinking habitats of big animals. He's endured 500-mile hikes through pure jungle, survived malaria, leech attacks, shaky flights on questionable airlines and virtually every other threat that comes from walking the wild parts of the world. His physical bravery earned him a movie-star nickname - the "Indiana Jones" of wildlife science - and even at 53, the muscle-bound Rabinowitz looks like he could wrestle a boa constrictor...
With his curly, salt-and-pepper hair and thoughtful demeanor, Chris West looks like just another mid-career professor as he crosses the streets of Oxford University. But West, trained as a zoologist, is more an activist than an academic these days. From his cramped office around the corner from Balliol College, he directs the government's UK Climate Impacts Program, which educates individuals and businesses in Britain about the risks they face from climate change and the ways to cope with...
...Interest in these items has grown tenfold in the past three years," says David Morsa, manager of the design store De Vera, which sells horns, glass insects and other artifacts befitting a zoologist's parlor. Tellingly, Morsa's title is curator, as if the store were a natural history museum. Some items are displayed in original condition, like the taxidermy eland that hangs behind the cash register at John Derian Co., an East Village boutique devoted to sea sponges, shells and other stylish scavengings. Other items have been given a contemporary twist, like botanical patterns reproduced in assertive contemporary colors...
...Kikori's rainforest, an unnamed male frog tends eggs laid in hollowed-out vines . LISTEN? It was just after midnight when frog researcher Steve Richards heard a strange melodious whistle amid the patter of rain in the Papua New Guinea cloud forest. The sound swept away the Australian zoologist's exhaustion as he struggled through the thorny vines and stinging nettles covering the remote mountain slope in the Southern Highlands. "When I heard this, I knew it was going to be fantastic," he says. Switching on his tape recorder and headlamp, he moved carefully toward the sound, trying...
...from coal and gas are prompting many Australians to rethink their prejudice against nuclear power. Physicist Martin Sevior, who led a recent study of the issue at the University of Melbourne, believes "there is a credible case for nuclear power plants," provided Australia adopts lessons learned elsewhere. According to zoologist Tim Flannery, whose book The Weather Makers calls for urgent action on climate change, if Australia replaced all of its coal-fired plants with nuclear ones, "we would have done something great for the world...