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The Clinton Administration announced today in Geneva that it will push for a legally binding treaty to combat global climate change. Such a treaty would limit emissions of greenhouse gases -- chiefly carbon dioxide from the burning of fossil fuels. NPR's David Baron reports that the U.S. position has sparked odd -- but predictable -- coalitions of countries and industries on both sides of the proposal.

And Kathleen Schalch reports record numbers of women are contributing to both parties -- women who never made campaign contributions before have begun opening their checkbooks.

NPR's Adam Hochberg reports that officials beefed up police patrols today at Atlanta's Hartsfield International Airport, but generally felt their security measures were adequate to prevent a terrorist incident. The move came with the Olympic Games scheduled to begin tomorrow and speculation that the crash of TWA flight 800 over the Atlantic may have been the result of a terrorist act.

NPR's David Baron reports that scientists are trying to find better ways to study ecological questions on a global scale. For example, there have been persistent concerns that certain species of song birds and frogs may be on the decline. But most of the evidence has come from studying populations of animals in relatively small areas. Those declines may be local fluctations, or they may be signs of a global trend.

NPR's Anne Garrels reports from Moscow on the Russian presidential campaign. Russian President Boris Yeltsin has re-appeared after five-days. His absence has raised questions about his health. Yeltsin's communist rival Gennady Zyuganov is demanding that Yeltsin submit to a medical exam. The run-off election will be held on Wednesday, the day after tomorrow.

NPR's Margot Adler reports on what we know about the ideas that have driven the Unabomber to plant 15 bombs. In a diatribe published last year in the Washington Post and the New York Times, the Unabomber describes his belief that modern technology has created an alienated, depersonalized society. His beliefs are more or less an amalgam of anti-technology writings from a number of writers.

NPR's Steve Inskeep reports on and lawsuit filed by landowners and developers who were prevented from building a Wal-Mart store in Hyde Park, New York. Such lawsuits, commonly called SLAPP (Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation) suits, are becoming increasing popular with developers...who go after city officials and town activists who block their plans.

NPR's Joanne Silberner reports that the House debates a health insurance bill (with a vote later this evening) that will allow people who have insurance to keep it even if they get sick or change jobs. But conservative Republicans have tacked on a number of features for insurers, small businesses, doctors and other interest groups that are bound to give the bill problems when it meets the more streamlined Senate version later this spring.

NPR's Margot Adler reports that baseball fields fields in New York city are in as much demand and as hotly fought over as rent controlled apartments. The Parks Deptartment is trying to break up cartels...in which people are actually making lots of money by trying to control just who gets to play on the fields.

NPR's Howard Berkes reports on a monumental experiment taking place at the Glen Canyon dam on the Colorado River, upriver from the Grand Canyon. Engineers will open floodgates and recreate a spring flood, much as the canyons flooded before the dam. The idea is to find out whether the downstream environment can be returned to something close to what it was.