I’m traveling this week to the island of Unalaska, home of the famous ‘Dutch Harbor,’ featured in the Discovery Channel’s hit show Deadliest Catch. Its a preliminary research trip, and I had the opportunity to interview with the local public radio station.

A story can be found here.

And when the audio is up for the interview, I’ll share that as well.

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Over the last week, lots of news outlets have picked up on a report out from the WWF. I thought I’d share, since I helped write it!

Here are some of the news stories:

Global Warming Is Affecting Arctic Faster, WWF Says (Update1)
Bloomberg - 19 hours ago
By Alex Morales April 24 (Bloomberg) — Global warming is hitting the Arctic harder and faster than scientists expected, causing unforeseen changes to the …

Arctic ice melting faster than anticipated -WWF
Reuters - Apr 23, 2008
By Laura MacInnis GENEVA, April 24 (Reuters) - Arctic ice may be melting faster than most climate change science has concluded, the conservation group WWF …

Eyewitness To A Melting World
Huffington Post, NY - Apr 22, 2008
In February, I came within a few degrees of 70 latitude south in Antarctica (see Solo to Antarctica …) And I returned a few days ago from northern …

The WWF press releases were picked up all over the world it seems, though mostly by countries other than the US. They also seem to have focused on the sea-ice/polar bear issue, even though there’s a LOT more in the report (including my piece on the impacts on Arctic peoples.

The full report can be accessed here: (My section starts on page 91, bullet summary on p14)

 http://assets.panda.org/downloads/final_climateimpact_22apr08.pdf

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Its been a while, I know. I apologize for the long absence to everyone subscribed. When I got back home following my honeymoon school and life just refused to slow down. I realize now that its less a matter of slowing life down and more a matter of making a point to take at least 30 minutes two write something here.

The need finally came this morning, when I saw a commercial for the Save Ellis Island organization. The commercial brought together actors, athletes, role models, making a plea to help them save this hugely important monument to American History. And indeed it is a great monument, to the young and idealistic years of our nation. A lot of great things happened at the hospital at Ellis Island, and i believe that it should not be allowed to fall into ruin. (more…)

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It is no wonder that for over two decades (half the duration of its statehood), Alaska has been home to a viable political party seeking independence from the Union. When one spends time here, one begins to notice the many ways that Alaska is ignored by the rest of the nation, unless, of course, oil is the topic of conversation. What politicians call a “bridge to nowhere” we call Ketchican’s bridge to the airport - crucial to the community’s long-term economic viability. They call ANWR a snow-covered void, we call it productive and diverse landscape from which people have subsisted for millennia. And the documentary that Ken Burns calls The War, I call a gross oversight of more than a year of Japanese occupation, of the territory’s role in the Pacific Theater at large, and most importantly, of the forced internment of 881 Alaska Natives by the United States government.

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