Byline: Michael Novacek For The Washington Post The news of environmental traumas assails us from every side - unseasonal storms, floods, fires, drought, melting ice caps, lost species of river dolphins and giant turtles, rising sea levels potentially displacing inhabitants of Arctic and Pacific islands and hundreds of thousands of people dying every year from air pollution. The new year has brought more - new reports that Greenland's glaciers may be melting away at an alarming rate.
