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How being a football fan helped me understand climate change deniers
Quitting a bad habit
Quitting a bad habit: Revelations from Obama’s tar sands decision If you smoke cigarettes, you may have reached a desperate point where you’ve picked up a half-smoked butt from an ashtray and lit up. Sure, it’s dirty, takes a lot … Continue reading
RIP Javan Rhino (3 million B.C. – 2011)
RIP: Javan rhino (30 million B.C. – 2011) I sent the sad link to my kids: “The last Javan rhino in Vietnam has gone.” This stark quote came from the World Wildlife Fund Vietnam country director, Tran Thi Minh Hien, … Continue reading
When is a national park not a national park?
Thirteen new national parks – and no way to see them? In 2002, the west African country of Gabon made international headlines with one of the boldest moves in conservation history: then-President Omar Bongo Ondimba announced the creation of 13 … Continue reading
Australian gay murder investigation
The subject line from the email jumped off my screen: “Scott Johnson Murder CONFESSOR!” While on holiday with my son in January, the last thing I expected was a confession to a murder I had investigated in Sydney four years … Continue reading
Megafires!
This month’s cover of Audubon magazine features a cover story I wrote about the increasing prevalence of huge, uncontrollable fires around the world — the unintended consequence of bad management, raging human growth, and climate change. Read more here…
A Visit to Conspiristan: Obama, Osama, Krakauer, Kroft — and Mortenson
Sydney, Australia May 9 – I know it’s not customary to dateline blogs, but I’m in Oz and I’m going to write about perspective, so it seems fitting. Here in an antipodal suburb of the global village, I’ve just watched … Continue reading
What’s the “Big Problem?”
In 1986, my ex-wife and I crossed the Khunjerab Pass into northern Pakistan’s Hunza Valley from China. On a recommendation from a traveler, we hired a guide to lead us on a three-day trek to the village of Shimshal. The … Continue reading
60 Minutes expose on Three Cups of Tea is weak – and wrong.
I believe in the importance of journalism to ferret out charlatans, expose financial fraud, and hold people and institutions accountable. That said, it’s hard to believe why 60 Minutes decided that Greg Mortenson and the Central Asia Institute qualified on … Continue reading