"Think globally, report locally," is a tip that environmental journalists might derive from a recent White House report.

Departing from its previous emphasis on the scientific uncertainties surrounding human influence on global warming, the Bush administration late in August issued the new report to Congress, identifying manmade pollution as the only likely reason for rising temperatures in recent decades.

The same document also cited federal grassland studies in Colorado to warn about possible damage to agriculture as one offshoot of a changing climate.

It was one more reminder -- just the latest in many -- that a warming world will be a decidedly local story for journalists to cover. A flurry of recent articles in a variety of publications demonstrate that a good number of reporters and editors don't need reminding.

• Report Details Global Warming's Role In Wildfire Risk, September 1, 2004.


• Attack Of The Bark Beetles, July 19, 2004.


• Will Tuvalu Disappear Beneath The Sea?, August 2004.


• Meadow's End, August, 2004.


• Signs From Earth, September 2004.