Blake Skylar
LATEST ARTICLES BY Blake Skylar
-
Natural gas leak leaves Alaska’s Cook Inlet in deep trouble
March 21, 2017The pipeline belongs to a gas production facility built in 1964 by Shell, the most ancient of 16 offshore oil and gas platforms that currently take up residence in the Cook Inlet.
Read more -
Arctic temperatures soar as sea ice shrinks
March 15, 2017The shrinking ice is damaging the livelihoods of indigenous people and endangering wildlife.
Read more -
Trump to gut EPA as climate change turns up the heat
February 28, 2017An uncommon heat wave has caused Americans to feel firsthand the effects of global warming, but it would seem that Trump is numb to it.
Read more -
Hunters, fishermen stop congressional land grab in its tracks
February 10, 2017Hunters and fishermen are a force to be reckoned with, if they can be mobilized around environmental and conservation issues.
Read more -
Troubled waters: Report says oceans rise as Trump denies
January 31, 2017Sea level rise is “a certain impact of climate change; the questions are when, and how much, rather than if.”
Read more -
Trump and the harmful culture of climate change denial
December 7, 2016Trump seems set to lead an administration marked by the very anti-environmental policies his predecessor fought to stop.
Read more -
Man and Nature: A powerful connection, now fractured
October 12, 2016“Probably no society has been so deeply alienated as ours from the community of nature."
Read more -
Six years after oil spill, Louisiana oyster farmers still struggling
September 23, 2016A post-oil spill environment is a new and uncertain proving ground for restoring an aquaculture that was almost put out of existence.
Read more