Mining the sky: Synthetic diamonds imperil Arctic economies
Once fixed in place, commodities like diamonds can now be conjured out of the sky from anywhere. This bodes ill…
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…
San Francisco: The 20th-century golden gateway to the Arctic
In 1936, the newly built Arctic schooner North Star of Herschel Island was loaded from a dock in San Francisco onto a larger…