If I were a caught fish, I think I would at least want someone to look at, in full awareness, my death. As my blood slows and my scales fade, I wish at least that there will be eyes watching me, hot and caring for even just that moment.
Recent Articles
An Ice Rink at 16,000 Feet
When your water is running out because your glacier is disappearing, don’t despair. Make like the Ladakhis and build yourself a new glacier.
Young Environmental Writers Contest 2012
The moment you’ve all been waiting for has finally arrived! Read on to discover incredible environmental stories from the American Southwest, South Asian coast, and chilly Himalayas.
Scratch the Salmon, I’ll Have the Sea Robin
When will consumers figure out that locally-caught fluke and porgies are tastier than farmed and imported fish species?
Fed Up: Cultivating Elk and Acrimony in Wyoming
Every winter, the state of Wyoming feeds thousands of wild elk to protect the animals against starvation. But are the feedgrounds keeping the herds alive, or dooming them –– and tearing apart human communities in the process?
Just Enough: Fishing for Happiness in Southern Thailand
In a remote corner of Thailand, a Muslim community draws both sustenance and meaning from the sea. Will overfishing and societal pressures cost the people of Dato their livelihoods?
Perspectives from the People’s Land: If the Caribou Help Us
Can protecting endangered caribou in Quebec help preserve the Cree’s way of life?
Climate and the Coast: The Seaweed in Your Sandals
You’ve probably eaten seaweed, used it for walking, or taken it along with your morning vitamins.
Wager for Rain
For decades, Southwestern scientists have tried to engineer their way out of a chronic water problem. Are their best solutions any less an act of prayer than a rain dance?
If You Love Your Electrons, Set Them Free
For a nation so devoted to capitalism, our energy markets are heavily rigged to price out clean-tech. If a carbon tax is out of the question for now, mechanisms to favor CO2-free electrons may lie in transmission.
Talking Tongass: First Impressions from the Last Frontier
After several weeks of traveling, I’ve finally arrived in Sitka, Alaska, where I’m working with the US Forest Service in the Tongass National Forest.
Perspectives from the People’s Land: When the Cree Say No
Ed. note: This is the third installment in Perspectives from the People’s Land, Naomi Heindel’s blog about her summer research in James Bay, Quebec. Follow the links to check out Part 1 and Part 2. What does it mean when a Cree steward, or tallyman, says “no” to proposed development? “Sometimes there’s something very large behind that two-letter word,” explains […]