Tag: Arctic
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The Art of Arctic Plants: A Conversation with Zachari Logan
Zachari Logan has built a career on drawing plants. In this interview, Isabelle Gapp talks with him about his residency at Kinngait Studios, where carpets of plants “erupt” across the tundra.
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“Buying Time,” and Other Charismatic Temporalities of Climate Change
in EssaysMark Carey explores the themes of out of time, accelerating time, and buying time in current climate change discourse, arguing that they flatten other social constructions of time and perpetuate empty “scientific” solutions.
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Penguins, Puffins, and the Science of Seabird Scat
Erin Hassett speaks with Dr. Gemma Clucas, a researcher at Cornell University who analyzes the poop of penguins and other seabirds to reveal deteriorating ocean health and changing fish population ecology. Dr. Clucas and fellow researchers travel to remote locations to collect the poop from common terns, penguins, puffins, and other seabirds.
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Arctic Ecologies, Then and Now: A Conversation with Bathsheba Demuth
in PodcastsBathsheba Demuth discusses her new book, Floating Coast: An Environmental History of the Bering Strait, and Arctic histories of ecological crisis and hope.
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The Social Media of Polar Exploration
in ReviewsHester Blum’s new book, The News at the Ends of the Earth, explains why 19th-century newspapers printed on polar expeditions offer a model for communicating in the age of climate crisis.
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Building an Arctic Atlas
in FieldnotesA team from Audubon Alaska designs ecological maps to make us rethink our place in the arctic.