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Brothers in Arms
This essay appeared in Earthly Love: Stories of Intimacy and Devotion from Orion. ON THE WEATHER DECKS of my naval warship, in the wilderness of the Pacific Ocean, I smoked alone. Continue reading

The Age of Stolen Salt
Salt is an ancestor. Older than ocean, old as stars. Salt flows through your saltwater body even now like blood, as blood. Salt is nonnegotiable, necessary for the working of every Continue reading

The Omnicene
Back in 1991, I pitched a different name for this time on Earth. That was the year before the Earth Summit in Rio produced the first climate treaty. I’d been reporting Continue reading

Faster Than We Thought
An excerpt from The World as We Knew It: Dispatches from a changing climate, edited by Amy Brady and Tajja Isen. I grew up in Qatar, a tiny peninsula off the Continue reading

Beautiful Impermanence: An Interview with Sculptor Patrick Dougherty
Unlike most sculptors, Patrick Dougherty makes things that are meant not to last. And yet, a tremendous amount of work, hard physical work, careful planning, and artful imagination goes into every Continue reading