Letters from the Edge Attu — Where the Frontier Withdrew A straight line north from New Zealand leads to Attu Island—the westernmost point of the United States, located in the Eastern Hemisphere. A place where geography contradicts mythology, and where the frontier quietly turned back.
Letters from the Edge The morning I truly saw it She woke up to rain—but something wasn’t right. A brown film covered her car, the sea carried a strange residue, and for the first time, she hesitated before stepping into the water. A quiet moment when climate change became personal.
Letters from the Edge Climate and Health: The Untold Reality on the Ground Dr. Vijendra Ingole grew up in India when summer meant 40°C under an iron tin roof and drinking water arrived once a month. He didn't have the language of climate science then. He had the reality of it. Now he does both.
Letters from the Edge I Am a Climate Refugee A 1% chance of catastrophic flooding, every year. Then it happened. The government encouraged me to rebuild. I did. Three years later, it happened again.
Letters from the Edge Witnessing Extinction A midnight beach. Four hundred people watching a single turtle lay her eggs. In nature, those numbers should be reversed. What followed was worse.
Letters from the Edge The Postcard Experiment I asked hundreds of climate scientists one simple question: what is your personal experience of climate change? The campaign statistics were strong. The silence was deafening.
Letters from the Edge Living with a Changing Climate Postcards What climate change actually feels like. Not the data. The actual feeling.
Letters from the Edge Le Glacier du Tour The Glacier du Tour was the first glacier I ever set foot on in 1979. A recent photograph made me realize that the icy world that shaped that memory is rapidly disappearing from the landscape above Le Tour.
Letters from the Edge Uncomfortable Miles Working on climate change has not reduced my carbon footprint — it has increased it. In the quiet hours of jet lag, I wrestle with the uncomfortable tension between engagement and purity, intention and combustion.
