It wasn't exactly a secret that climate change will have drastic and often harmful impacts on the roads and causeways, chemical plants and oil/gas pipelines, and shipping facilities along the Gulf Coast. Two reports released in March had already said so.

But another report on the same subject from the Department of Transportation was buried deep in the bureaucracy - as has been the case with many reports on climate change impacts during the past eight years.

In this issue: 'Get the story talking': making connections between people and the altered land; The enormous task of writing about consumption...for the complete hotlinked table of contents, click on the journal cover.