Art Bell hosts investigative journalist Linda Moulton Howe for a detailed examination of environmental research making headlines in the spring of 2000. NASA atmospheric physicist Dr. Paul Newman reports that over sixty percent of Arctic ozone at eleven miles altitude has deteriorated, driven by the interaction between industrial chlorofluorocarbons and polar stratospheric clouds formed in an increasingly cold stratosphere.

NOAA scientist Sidney Levitas presents findings from five million ocean temperature profiles showing the world's oceans have warmed as deep as ten thousand feet, confirming computer model predictions about global warming's reach. The data reveals the North Atlantic experienced unprecedented warming in 1998, challenging assumptions that the deep ocean was a static body unaffected by surface temperature changes.

NASA's Dr. Drew Shindell explains how global warming paradoxically cools the stratosphere, strengthening westerly winds and potentially disrupting the North Atlantic ocean circulation that keeps Europe warm. Art and Linda also discuss Pentagon denials about alien technology, the crop circle debunking controversy, and breaking news of Tropical Cyclone Rosita threatening Australia with 161 mile-per-hour winds.