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Wishful Thinking: The Magic Wand of South Pole Winds
I’ve been reading a lot about how this year’s ice melt in the Arctic is the most severe since 1979, with record amounts of Arctic land and sea left ice-free. Ice formation is increasingly rapid as...
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Ebb & Flow
Photo: PK Read The slow meltback of all the snow we’ve had over the past couple of months is advancing day-by-day. No rain, not much wind, chilly temperatures, and yet the thick snow pulls back to...
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Ancient Flow
Rouffignac Cave Mammoth drawing (copper etching)Via: Elfshot Gallery Revive & Restore, the de-extinction project of the Long Now Foundation, has proposed the passenger pigeon (Ectopistes...
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Teardrop Revival
A moss (Aulacomnium turgidum), one of seven plants frozen under Teardrop Glacier roughly 400 years ago and induced to grow new stems and shoots in a lab.Image: Catherine La Farge via Smithsonian...
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Life Pulse
I’m going to be posting a bit less frequently for the next couple of weeks until September 1 – not going away, just not here quite as often. Champagnewhisky is putting its feet up for summer. Here are...
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Unforeseen Gatherings
Walrus Sea ice located along the shallow continental shelf of the Bering Sea usually provides a diving board, a hunting perch and resting place for female walrus and their young. With sea ice...
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Dickens, Luck & the Woolly Mammoth
A Mammoth tusk extracted from ice complex deposits along the Logata River in Taimyr, Russia.Photo: Per Moller / Johanna Anjar via Reuters “Life is made of ever so many partings welded together.”...
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Portrait of Living Wind
Martha, the world’s last passenger pigeon.Photo: Scientific American A century ago this month, the world’s last passenger pigeon (Ectopistes migratorius) died in the Cincinnati Zoo, long after the last...
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Heedless Ways
Chimpanzees in Uganda’s Kigali National Park have been getting up to some unusual business at night. These daytime foragers with poor night vision have been leaving the safety of the forest, crossing a...
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Arctic Oil Hubris
Black treasure (2014) blown glassArtist: Antoine Brodin The U.S. government has approved plans by Royal Dutch Shell to begin drilling for oil off the Alaskan coast this summer. This comes after years...
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Shifting Outlines
How a map is drawn says more about the interests and intentions of the cartographers than it does about the space it describes. Take, for example, these various maps of the Arctic. For most of human...
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Glacial Flight
My visit to Alaska last week, to attend a memorial for a young friend, was marked by both tears and laughter. Small glacial pools glint in the Knik Glacier, Alaska.All photos: PKR Tears because of his...
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Patch Job
A study published earlier this year pointed to a decrease in the size of the ozone hole over the Antarctic. This healing process has pointed to the success of the Montreal Protocol, the 1989 treaty...
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Fueling Fossil Feelings
Over the past year, a variety of elections, polls and movements have demonstrated that, for all the endless access we have to information, we are entering an era that emphasizes acting on emotions and...
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Clepsydra Elegy
It should come as no surprise that one of the earliest tools humans used to tell time was water. After all, it’s what we are, what we need to live. A clepsydra is an ancient clock system that, at its...
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