It was the low, slow, rumbling wave of sound that caught my attention. I was in the public library, listening on borrowed headphones on an old walkman, trying to focus on writing. But the swirling piano and low drone of the cello halted me mid-thought. …

It was really, really hot. My bangs clung to my forehead as sweat beaded around my eyes, which were shut tight against the oppressive heat. Last to enter the sauna, I’d been relegated to the back corner next to the fire where both the heat and overwhelming smell of smoldering…

The silence is wide, the sky is dark and the cold greets my every breath as I walk through Oslo at night. The only sounds that pierce the air are the crunch and sink of my boots through the snow. Each step is a percussive combination of hard and soft…

Tom Yulsman directs the Center for Environmental Journalism and is a professor in CU Boulder’s Department of Journalism. He also serves as a faculty member in CU’s environmental studies program. Yulsman keeps an active career as a journalist going by covering the earth and environmental sciences for major magazines and…

Malin Avenius is a Swedish freelance science journalist who specializes in polar research and the Arctic. As an audio journalist, she has worked as a reporter, host and editor at Swedish Radio and taught radio journalism at the University of Gothenburg. During her 20 years as a journalist she has…

Molly Rettig is a multimedia journalist in Alaska who covers climate change, energy, sled dog racing and any other Arctic adventures she can find. She contributes to Alaska magazine and Alaska Public Radio, and is writing a book about the resource booms that built Alaska and the pioneers who lived…

Last winter I found myself in a dark place. Specifically, Iceland in mid-January. While a contentious presidential inauguration dragged on back home, I reached the edge of Reykjavik and began to climb a hill that overlooked the city. The hill was slick with wet, coastal snow that had fallen thick…

By now, there’s a good chance you’ve seen it: that video of the starving polar bear, forlorn eyes peering from beneath grungy fur. If you’ve been on social media at all in the past month, it’s crossed your path. Predictably, it sparked immediate debate. Climate change is killing polar bears! …

Sadie Babits has had a long career in public media in which she has reported on public lands, water, climate change and other issues plaguing the West. Most recently she served as news director at Colorado Public Radio. She’s currently a Ted Scripps Fellow in Environmental Journalism at the University…