The magazine features 10 swimsuit-clad women posing in threatened northern landscapes, from melting icescapes to burnt-out forests. ... "We liked the idea of ... taking this sort of stereotypical 'swimsuit issue' concept that Sports Illustrated has made sort of legendary, and putting a total Arctic twist on it," Spitzer said.
The swimsuit models are posed much more modestly than those in Sports Illustrated, but Shannon Ripley of Ecology North objects anyway, saying the issue should also have included men in swimsuits. See a video preview of the swimsuit edition here.
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