Snapshots from up and down the Arctic in 2018
In 2018, conferences, workshops, and meetings brought me to seven of the eight countries with territory north of the Arctic…
How a doomed Arctic voyage presaged transpolar flights
Last month, I flew from Los Angeles to Hong Kong on one of those sleek jets that fuse heaven and…
Trekking through time and space across the Third Pole
Nearly five years ago, I wrote a post comparing the Arctic and Central Asia. Though at first glance the regions don’t seem related, both are extractive frontiers: sparsely populated, climactically…Continue Reading →