Michigan State University Press - Cold, Clear, and Deadly is both a mystery and the story of the evolution of its author: from a chemical and bioprocess scientist to the vice president in charge of a major company's corporate environmental division; to engaging in international research ...
New York Times - When European merchants, navigators and chancers began searching for a northern sea route from the Atlantic to the Pacific, Henry VIII was still a bachelor. The mazy waterways were navigable for a scant three months a year, and as late as 1819 only two white men ...
Vancouver Sun - One of Canada's top archeologists argues in a new book that the prehistoric ancestors of this country's 55,000 Inuit probably migrated rapidly from Alaska clear across the Canadian North in just a few years — not gradually over centuries as traditionally assumed — after they learned about ...
Alaska Science Forum - Born in Florida and raised in New Mexico, Matthew Sturm somehow became an expert on snow. During the past 30 years, he has traveled thousands of miles on the substance, counted how many grains it takes to cover a football field to a depth of two ...
All Things Considered (NPR) - As a child, Philip Hoare was always scared of water. But he was always fascinated, too — specifically by the creatures dubbed the "leviathans of the deep." So how did this frightened boy who didn't learn to swim until age 25 end up snorkeling with ...
NiCHE - Between 1920 and 1960, Canada's northwest subarctic region experienced late-stage rapid industrialization along its large lakes. These included Lake Winnipeg, Lake Athabasca, Great Slave Lake, and Great Bear Lake. Powered by high-energy fossil fuels, the natural resources of the northwest were integrated into international commodity markets and distributed ...
Bowdoin Campus News - In 1934, on the 25th anniversary of Robert E. Peary's 1908-09 North Pole Expedition, Donald B. MacMillan published How Peary Reached the Pole, which was his account of that historic expedition. Now, to mark the 100th anniversary the expedition, The Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum and Arctic Studies ...
The Globe and Mail - “The strongest element in Canada's [sovereignty] claim,” Byers writes, “is the historical occupation by the Inuit, who have hunted, fished, travelled and lived on the Northwest Passage for millennia.” Together, the Inuit constitute “a powerful manifestation” of Canada's legal position. Byers has found that, when ...
New York Times - One better-known example of a rewilding project is the so-called Yellowstone to Yukon Conservation Initiative, or Y2Y. It proposes to provide corridors between those two areas in the United States and Canada, allowing wolves and other animals to travel freely between them. “Rewilding the World” examines ...
Treehugger - Based in Ontario, Canada, Ian Hamilton is operating a diverse farm that includes veggie gardens, livestock and poultry. He seems to know his stuff when it comes to permaculture principles, and interesting plants you can grow in a temperate climate. I was just disappointed to get to the ...
