Extreme Athletes Are Braving the Harshest Environments on Earth For Science
When Ricky Jones and Zach Altman tried to collect water from their assigned section of the Gallatin River last December, they were the only team to return empty-handed. They’d cross-country skied through three or four feet of snow in Yellowstone National Park, but when they arrived at the river, they couldn’t break through its layers…
Tribes Accuse Salmon Farms of ‘Playing Biological Roulette’ With Their Way of Life
Open-water fish pens in the traditional territories of British Columbia’s First Nations are threatening wild salmon. And if the salmon disappear, so will a 10,000-year-old way of life. “We are facing extinction,” Ernest Alfred, traditional leader of the ‘Namgis, Tlowitsis and Mamalilikulla First Nations in British Columbia, Canada, told Earther. Fish farms, which have been…
