Shrinking Glaciers

Shrinking Glaciers

by | Apr 13, 2012 | Get This

David Breashears holds George Mallory’s 1921 image of the Main Rongbuk Glacier in front of how it looked in 2007. GlacierWorks photo. The MIT Museum in Cambridge, Massachusetts decided to launch its first big public exhibit on a controversial aspect of...
R.I.P. Peter B. Lord

R.I.P. Peter B. Lord

by | Apr 9, 2012 | Get This

Peter Lord at a Metcalf Institute workshop a few years ago. (Photo from the Metcalf Institute) Environment reporter Peter Lord died on April 4. I am grateful for the years I worked with him on the Advisory Board of the Metcalf Institute for Marine and Environmental...
A tribute to environmental writer Peter Lord

A tribute to environmental writer Peter Lord

by | Mar 30, 2012 | Get This

Peter Lord, at left in shirtsleeves, talked to Metcalf Institute fellows in 2007 with Providence Journal publisher Joel Rawson and me (in black blazer to Pete’s left) My colleague and friend, Peter B. Lord, has been fighting brain cancer. He is only 60 years old...

Salaries

by | Mar 26, 2012 | Get This

Median per-capita income* in the United States: $52,673 Mitt Romney’s income: 21.7 million in 2010. (He and his wife, Ann, donated 16 percent, about 3.5 million, of their income to charity.) Former Senator Rick Santorum’s income in 2010: $923,000 Newt Gingrich and his...
The narrower, yet expanding, environment beat

The narrower, yet expanding, environment beat

by | Mar 16, 2012 | Get This

The sea continues to rise a few centimeters per year. Long Island Sound off Bridgeport, Connecticut. When I look back on my first years covering the environment in the 1990s, it looks like a lost era of innocence. When I began covering the environment beat for a daily...