Pamela Sonn’s haunting meditation from Alaska’s temperate rainforest is third place winner of our 2014 Emerging Environmental Writers Contest.
Writing Contest
Beyond the North Slope: Oil drills and discord off Alaska’s Arctic coast
Amy Mount, winner of our 2014 Emerging Environmental Writers Contest, journeys to Alaska’s Chukchi Sea to investigate the debate over offshore drilling and the stakes for subsistence whalers.
Honorable Mention: The Water Generation Gap
Water may soon replace oil as Texas’ most valuable resource.
Honorable Mention: Sunset at Mile 16
In a place where the plants are invasive and the people are illegal, Alycia Parnell describes a refuge meant only for certain plants and people. But others who aren’t “supposed” to be there show up anyway.
3rd Place: The Pit in the Woods
In Amazonian Peru, Nigel Pitman was responsible for “Science Saturdays,” when he would try to impart some worldly knowledge to the children of the village near where he was living. He tells the story of one Science Saturday in particular that was especially enlightening for him.