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2104, 2015

Outside Magazine: Honey Stinger

By |April 21st, 2015|Categories: Blog, Stories|Tags: , , , , |Comments Off on Outside Magazine: Honey Stinger

This article was originally posted in Outside Magazine. By Dean Kuipers, November 26, 2012. The FBI used an 18-year-old woman called "Anna" to infiltrate an alleged eco-terrorism cell. Did she stop a bomb plot before it came off? Or did she launch one?

1404, 2015

Shepherding the Sea: Dr. Reese Halter

By |April 14th, 2015|Categories: Blog, Uncategorized|Tags: , , , |Comments Off on Shepherding the Sea: Dr. Reese Halter

Conservation biologist Reese Halter, whom you might know from YouTube or MSNBC or the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, writes books that revel in the wonder of nature. But in his newest book, Shepherding the Sea: The Race to Save Our Oceans, Dr. Halter has gone past wonder to take the offensive, arguing vociferously that a collapse of ocean ecology threatens all life on Earth.

1503, 2015

Men’s Journal: Are the Alps Crumbling?

By |March 15th, 2015|Categories: Stories|Comments Off on Men’s Journal: Are the Alps Crumbling?

This article was originally posted in Men's Journal By Dean Kuipers Dec 2014 Rising temperatures are causing more rock slides on the world's biggest mountains. Credit: Jon Griffith / Aurora Two days after [...]

2509, 2009

Operation Bite Back: Rod Coronado's War to Save American Wilderness

By |September 25th, 2009|Categories: Operation Bite Back, Press|Tags: |Comments Off on Operation Bite Back: Rod Coronado's War to Save American Wilderness

Rod Coronado's most spectacular act of eco-sabotage occurred on the evening of November 8, 1986. Coronado and David Howitt, both about 20 years old and members of the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, sought to do nothing less than cripple Iceland's whaling fleet and draw attention to countries flouting a global ban on the hunting of whales then in place. Camouflaged in dark rain gear and ski masks, they first destroyed the Hvalfjordur whaling station, smashing its computer control room, confiscating record books to prove that Iceland was still killing whales, and dumping expensive repair equipment into the fjord.

208, 2009

Christian Science Monitor: “Operation Bite Back” major reviews

By |August 2nd, 2009|Categories: Press, Stories|Tags: , , , |Comments Off on Christian Science Monitor: “Operation Bite Back” major reviews

The new review on the Christian Science Monitor site reminds me that I haven’t put up the other terrific reviews of the book posted by other sites. I’m proud of what’s been said about the [...]

206, 2009

Bloggy Blah Blah

By |June 2nd, 2009|Categories: News|Tags: , , , |1 Comment

Welcome to Dean’s bloggy hollow, it’s about books and woods and big mountain snow and people who devote themselves to the preservation of wild-er-ness and my friends and Jenkins, the good-natured little dog that ate L.A., and journalism and making newspapers and heroes who are too numerous to count and that makes me lucky.