date: Thu, 2 Sep 1999 07:54:39 -0400 from: "markham/dompka" subject: US and Canada to: "nicola sheard" , "mike hulme" Ideas for US and Canada: US * Sea-level rise and loss of wetlands on the East coast - Chesapeake Bay, Louisiana, Florida * Increased heavy rainfall and flooding, and impacts of drought on farmers * Drying of duck habitat in the prairie pothole region * Forest fires and disease in the west (eg. Yellowstone) * Loss of cool water habitat for brook trout (eg southern Appalachians) Canada * Melting permafrost, thermokarsts, forest changes, forest disease * Ice thinning and changes in extent affecting polar bears, walrus, seals etc. (impacts on native peoples) * Tundra changes affecting caribou and wader populations