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By Bill McKibben 12/03/01 12:00am

Another Kind of Cataclysm: Incremental Climate Change

The Coming Storm: Extreme Weather and Our Terrifying Future , by Bob Reiss. Hyperion, 323 pages, $24.95.

Hurricane Watch: Forecasting the Deadliest Storms on Earth , by Dr. Bob Sheets and Jack Williams. Vintage, 331 pages, $15.

Environmentalists trying to convince Americans of the dangers of global warming have had a tough job: Because Read More

By Bill McKibben 2/09/98 12:00am

Meet the Audubon Of Grand Army Plaza

Wickerby: An Urban Pastoral , by Charles Siebert. Crown Publishers, 216 pages, $21.

This guy Siebert is a writer. Somewhere near the end of his book, on the night he returns to New York after a summer in a semi-isolated Canadian cabin, he describes catching his first glimpse of the city’s glowing skyscrapers, “savoring Read More