Vacation Here Before Climate Change Sets In

As the rainforest recedes logging, farming and ranching increase pollution while carbon dioxide-scrubbing greenery disappears. We forfeit renewable resources like wood, fruits and vegetables. And plants that are, or could be, the source of new pharmaceuticals disappear.

Camp out in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge
President Bush is dying to open it up to oil companies for drilling. Environmentalist groups like the National Resources Defense Council have so far managed to keep him at bay, but in case he gets his way, head north now for some camping, hiking or river running.

The refuge hosts 36 fish species, 36 land mammals, nine marine mammals, and more than 160 migratory and resident birds spread across five distinct ecological regions, according to the US Fish and Wildlife Service. Drilling here is only a temporary fix to our fuel problems but the damage to the region and its populace will be permanent,

And besides, those moose, caribou, swans and polar bears just won't look as magnificent if you have to photograph them with an oil rig in the distance.