Category Archives: Nature

Arctic Futures

December 12, 2010 – 5:57 pm

Image: Ray Bartkus Imagine the Arctic in 2050 as a frigid version of Nevada—an empty landscape dotted with gleaming boom towns. Gas pipelines fan across the tundra, fueling fast-growing cities to the south like Calgary and Moscow, the coveted destinations for millions of global immigrants. It’s a busy web for global commerce, as the world’s [...]

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Marine conservation area boundary proposal is based on Inuit oral history

November 13, 2010 – 1:57 pm

Now, in a bid to assert Inuit interests in protecting Lancaster Sound as both a species-rich ecosystem and as an important hunting resource, a group representing several Baffin-area communities — in collaboration with federal archivists and the Montreal-based environmental consultancy Strata360 — have converted mountains of recordings, interview transcripts, hand-drawn maps and other documents into [...]

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Personal Biosphere

January 30, 2010 – 1:47 pm

“Personal biospheres” by Seattle artist Vaughn Bell. So great – I need one of these for my living room. Or better yet: a cafe filled with multi-person versions. via A New F*cking Wilderness

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World Discoverer

January 20, 2010 – 10:09 pm

The wreck of the cruise ship World Discoverer, Solomon Islands View Larger Map

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The Known Universe

December 18, 2009 – 1:01 am

Wow. via Kottke goes well with Powers of Ten.

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