“An eye-opening adventure through Alaska’s wild salmon supply chain, from nets to knives to the dinner table.”
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Your Data’s Strange Undersea Voyage
“The internet is a series of tubes. In the ocean.”
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The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
Featuring stories from Josh Dzieza, Mark Krotov, Wendy Brenner, Paul Brown, and Andrew Normal Wilson.
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The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
This week’s installment features stories by Lee van der Voo, Adam Gopnik, Surabhi Ranganathan, Masha Udensiva-Brenner, and Mikey O’Connell.
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An Icelandic Town Goes All Out to Save Baby Puffins
“Kids and senior citizens alike rally to rescue beloved young seabirds that have lost their bearings.”
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With Old Traditions and New Tech, Young Inuit Chart Their Changing Landscape
For generations, hunting and being deeply in tune with the land have been essential parts of Inuit culture in the Hudson Bay region of northernmost Canada. As the coastline changes, Inuit youth are combining next-generation tech and tools with the Indigenous wisdom of their elders to chart the evolving marine landscape — and make it […]
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Charting Worlds: Five Longreads About Maps
From fantasylands to unique cartographers (including one that’s non-human), here are five stories about maps.
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Life Under (Water) Pressure
Welcome to the dangerous, cramped world of the saturation diver, and the extraordinary strangeness of working 500 feet under the sea.
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The Dizzying Story of Symphony of the Seas, the Largest and Most Ambitious Cruise Ship Ever Built
Every “ship at sea is its own island,” but not all of them come equipped with a zipline, 40 restaurants and bars, and a laser-tag facility.
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The Island that Disappeared
An Englishman searches for what’s left of Providence, a failed Puritan colony in the Caribbean.