Reducing Plastics and Other Waste in the Arctic Ocean
Penned by Becca Robbins Gisclair, Nicholas J. Mallos, Michael LeVine and Henry P. Huntington, this blog is sourced from a featured column in the journal Environment on the threat plastic pollution poses in the Arctic Oce...
Reducing Plastics and Other Waste in the Arctic Ocean
If ever there was a place you’d think would be off-limits for a mine, it is Bristol Bay. Home to the world’s largest sockeye salmon run, this land of wild rivers and abundant salmon runs supports a thriving commercial fi...
Tapping the Brakes on Pebble Mine
This blog was written by Austin Ahmasuk, an Inupiaq from Nome, Alaska. He is a lifelong hunter, trapper and mariner, and serves his people as a tribal and marine advocate at Kawerak, a community-based organization in Nom...
An Influx of Foreign Trash
On July 25, the MV Wakashio was grounded on a coral reef off the coast of Mauritius. Since then, the ship has released 1,000 tons of fuel into the sea, where it has fouled the region’s biologically rich waters and coastl...
What’s Next for the Mauritius Oil Spill?
Today marks the United States Coast Guard’s 230th birthday. That’s 230 years of protecting more than 100,000 miles of U.S. coastline and waterways and the communities who call them home. Today is the perfect time to cele...
Cheers to 230 Years of the U.S. Coast Guard
It was a privilege to work with seven Indigenous friends and colleagues on a paper in which they describe what it’s like to live alongside one of the three international borders dividing the traditional lands of the Chuk...
In the Arctic, the Water Connects Us
I spend a lot of time working to reduce the threat of oil spills in Arctic waters, and I’ll be the first to admit the laws and rules governing oil spill prevention and response are not easy to understand. Who gets to mak...
Preventing and Cleaning Up Oil Spills in Arctic Waters
I recently received a card from the canoeing camp I attended and worked at in my youth. The photo on the front showed two young men in a canoe, smiling broadly next to a large floe of sea ice, its smooth melting surfaces...
The Many Wonders of Arctic Sea Ice
The National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska is a vast tract of federal public land in the U.S. Arctic, bounded by the Chukchi Sea to the west and the Beaufort Sea to the north. More than ten times the size of Yellowstone Natio...
New Plan will Jeopardize the Arctic Coast
The Arctic is a spectacular place—both beautiful and abundant. Home to Indigenous people, unique wildlife and wide-open expanses of wilderness, the Arctic is awe-inspiring whether you’ve visited or not. But, Arctic peopl...