Daniel Schaffer, Public Information Officer for ICTP and TWAS, is the co-author of the lead article in Environment magazine, a monthly publication published by Heldref Publications in Washington, DC. His co-authors include Ehsan Masood, a a free-lance journalist who has written for Nature, New Scientist and The Economist; Pallava Bagla, the southeast Asia correspondent for Science; and Yvonne Ndege, a journalist with the BBC in London. The article, “Three Stories of Adaptation to Life Without Water,” consists of excerpts of a book edited by Schaffer and Masood, Dry: Life Without Water, published by Harvard University Press last year.