Climate change an ‘opportunity’ as well as a threat
Wednesday, April 15, 2009 - 15:56
in Biology & Nature
Conservation pioneer Russell A. Mittermeier started this year’s Roger Tory Peterson Memorial Lecture (April 5) with a quiz. In front of several hundred listeners at Harvard’s Science Center he turned on a small recorder. The sudden call of an animal — piercing and reedy — shot like an alarm across the expanse of Lecture Hall B. Mittermeier, president of the biodiversity protection group Conservation International, asked: What is it? read more