News and Notes

The National Academies announced its 2006 Communications Awards last week. Elizabeth Kolbert won in the newspaper/magazine category for "Climate of Man," her three-part New Yorker series on global warming. The series, which was expanded into her excellent book, Field Notes from a Catastrophe, is still available online. Frequent Sierra magazine contributor Michelle Nijhuis was also a finalist for her High Country News series on climate change in the West, which earlier received a Walter Sullivan Award from the American Geophysical Union. Congratulations to both on excellent work.