Krista Mahr

Articles from Contributor

Sort by  
+Energy | June 14, 2010

Meanwhile, in Greenland

By Krista Mahr

While the world can’t take its eyes off the slow motion train wreck in the Gulf, environmentalists and politicians in more northerly climes are getting increasingly cold feet about plans for offshore drilling in their own icy waters. Canada’s Environment Minister Jim Prentice plans to station a supervisor on an upcoming drilling project scheduled to [...]

+Climate Science | June 14, 2010

Revisiting that Sinking Feeling

By Krista Mahr

The conventional wisdom that Asia and the Pacific’s thousands of low-slung islands will be swimming with the fishes by the end of this century is getting a second look. A recent study of 27 Pacific islands featured in New Scientist reports that many — including the infamously doomed Tuvalu — have remained stable in size [...]