Part 12, in which the Arctic poppies show their mettle, the snow bunting chicks emerge, and a polar bear leaves its mark. 27 June Although my alarm went off at 2200, I […]
Liquid mercury
Someone missed a small piece of sky
Part 11. The summer of abnormal distribution, fried radios, and a translucent moon progresses in the Arctic Ocean. 21 June Yesterday was a long day, and I never got to write. We continued confirming […]
The velvet void
Part 8. The Guillemots make their entrance. 6 June A sad day. It seems my little sparrow friend is gone. I don’t know if he went off in search of a mate, […]
Guess the product
#7, I believe, in the series. The summer of 2000 I spent on an island in the Arctic Ocean studying seabirds. Largely alone for the summer and left to my own devices, I […]
Parts 3 and 4: decade shock and Cooper – 101
Part 3. The following excerpt was actually written upon my return to the lower 48 but it so amazed me that I have to share it. Back to the regular Arctic programming […]
Ignoring her Bible, Palin denies human dominion over Earth
by Tom Yulsman Sarah Palin’s Alaska has been called the “Paul Revere of global warming.” That’s because the sharp impacts the state has been feeling, including the just-announced near-record melting of Arctic […]
The Weekly Carboholic: oil prices fall, but not because of Bush
On Monday, President Bush announced that he had reversed an executive order originally put in place by his father that restricted drilling on the outer continental shelf (OCS). Yesterday, crude oil prices […]
