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For High Country News: On the Yukon a 10,000-year tradition of fish camp, but now, no fish

Posted on by Julia O'Malley

I wrote a long story for High Country News looking at the cultural impacts and science related to the a major king and chum salmon crash on the Yukon River, which is linked to climate change.

For High Country News: A Gambell teenager took a whale, now he’s haunted by death threats from across the world 

Posted on by Julia O'Malley

Before his story made the Anchorage paper, before the first death threat arrived from across the world, before his elders began to worry and his mother cried over the things she read on Facebook, Chris Apassingok, age 16, caught a whale.