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Instead, it is resulting in a greedy, myopic rush for territory and control.</p></div> 234</div> 235<div class='work-block'> 236<!-- sort order index is 3 --> 237<div class='work-title'> 238<a href="/the_great_white_bear__a_natural___unnatural_history_of_the_polar_bear_105338.htm">The Great White Bear: A Natural & Unnatural History of the Polar Bear</a> 239</div> 240<div class='work-description'>The world's largest land carnivore is officially classified as a marine mammal. But it can only survive on the sea ice of the Arctic. This is its story.</div> 241</div> 242<div class='work-block'> 243<!-- sort order index is 5 --> 244<div class='work-title'> 245<a href="/the_whaling_season__an_inside_account_of_the_struggle_to_stop_commercial_whaling_13962.htm">The Whaling Season: An Inside Account of the Struggle to Stop Commercial Whaling</a> 246</div> 247<div class='work-description'><p class="from_wysiwyg">The inside story of the campaign against commercial whaling, as told by the leader of four Greenpeace voyages to confront the Antarctic whaling fleet.</p></div> 248</div> 249<div class='work-block'> 250<!-- sort order index is 7 --> 251<div class='work-title'> 252<a href="/at_the_ends_of_the_earth__a_history_of_the_polar_regions_13809.htm">At the Ends of the Earth: A History of the Polar Regions</a> 253</div> 254<div class='work-description'>The story of how the Arctic and Antarctic have influenced, and in turn been affected by, human history.</div> 255</div> 256<div class='work-block'> 257<!-- sort order index is 9 --> 258<div class='work-title'> 259<a href="/witness__twenty_five_years_on_the_environmental_front_line_13810.htm">Witness: Twenty-Five Years on the Environmental Front Line</a> 260</div> 261<div class='work-description'>A photographic history of Greenpeace, with introductory text by me, and a foreword by the Dalai Lama.</div> 262</div> 263 264</div> 265</div> 266 267</div> 268<div class='content-wrap'> 269<div class='content-container-wrapper'> 270<div class='content global-content clearfix' data-global-content-container> 271<div class='global_content_header_wrapper'> 272<div class='global_content_inner_wrapper'> 273<h3 class='MediumHeader'> 274Quick Links 275</h3> 276</div> 277</div> 278<div class='inner-contents'> 279<div class='content-container-wrapper edit'> 280<div class='move-buttons-wrapper'> 281 282 283</div> 284<div class='link-block content clearfix'> 285<a target="_blank" class="link-link" href="http://www.welovetheiraqiinformationminister.com">A tribute to the undoubted media darling of the Iraqi war</a> 286</div> 287</div> 288<div class='content-container-wrapper edit'> 289<div class='move-buttons-wrapper'> 290 291 292</div> 293<div class='link-block content clearfix'> 294<a target="_blank" class="link-link" href="http://www.kentown.com">Ken Caron: my former neighbor in Alaska</a> 295</div> 296</div> 297<div class='content-container-wrapper edit'> 298<div class='move-buttons-wrapper'> 299 300 301</div> 302<div class='link-block content clearfix'> 303<a target="_blank" class="link-link" href="http://www.authorsguild.org/">Authors Guild</a> 304</div> 305</div> 306 307</div> 308</div> 309</div> 310 311</div> 312</div> 313</div> 314 315<div class='sb_region small_primary_after_global'> 316<div class='region-contents'> 317</div> 318</div> 319 320 321</div> 322<div class='sb_region'> 323<div class='sb_region small_secondary_before_global'> 324<div class='region-contents'> 325</div> 326</div> 327 328<div class='sb_region small_secondary_global'> 329<div class='region-contents'> 330</div> 331</div> 332 333<div class='sb_region small_secondary_after_global'> 334<div class='region-contents'> 335</div> 336</div> 337 338 339</div> 340</div> 341</aside> 342<section class='column column-primary column-last'> 343<div class='column-primary__content-wrap'> 344<div class='sb_region sb_region_page_title'> 345<div class='sb_page_title_wrapper'> 346<h2> 347 348</h2> 349</div> 350 351</div> 352<div class='sb_region'> 353<div class='sb_region big'> 354<div class='region-contents'> 355<div class='content-wrap'> 356<div class='content-container-wrapper edit'> 357<div class='move-buttons-wrapper'> 358 359 360</div> 361<div class='content clearfix text-block'> 362<h4><strong>"Arguably, Kieran Mulvaney is well on his way to being one of the ranking conservation writers of his generation." (India Wilson, <em>January Magazine</em>)</strong></h4> 363</div> 364</div> 365 366 367</div> 368<div class='content-wrap'> 369<div class='content-container-wrapper edit'> 370<div class='move-buttons-wrapper'> 371 372 373</div> 374<div class='content clearfix text-block'> 375<div class='text-wrapper'> 376<p><a href="http://www.twitter.com/kieranmulvaney"><img src="http://twitter-badges.s3.amazonaws.com/follow_me-c.png" alt="Follow kieranmulvaney on Twitter"/></a></p> 377</div> 378</div> 379</div> 380 381 382</div> 383<div class='content-wrap'> 384<div class='content-container-wrapper edit'> 385<div class='move-buttons-wrapper'> 386 387 388</div> 389<div class='content clearfix text-block'> 390<div class='image-block-align-left image-wrap-text small'> 391<a href='https://islandpress.org/books/arctic-passages#desc' target='_blank'> 392<image alt='' sizes='(min-width: 530px) 33vw, (min-width: 940px) 25vw, 100vw' src='/images/9781642832075.jpg' srcset='/images/9781642832075.jpg 480w, /images/9781642832075.jpg 320w'></image> 393 394</a> 395</div> 396<div class='text-wrapper'> 397<p class="from_wysiwyg">My latest book, <em>Arctic Passages: Ice, Exploration, and the Battle for Power at the Top of the World</em>, is now available and was adjudged to be one of the Best Books of 2025 by <em>The Economist</em>. Check my blog for updates; more information is under 'Publications.'</p> 398</div> 399</div> 400</div> 401 402 403</div> 404<div class='content-wrap'> 405<div class='content-container-wrapper edit'> 406<div class='move-buttons-wrapper'> 407 408 409</div> 410<div class='content clearfix text-block'> 411<div class='image-block-align-left large'> 412<image alt='' sizes='(min-width: 940px) 66vw, 100vw' src='/images/p1010741.jpg' srcset='/images/p1010741.jpg 1280w, /images/p1010741.jpg 960w, /images/p1010741.jpg 640w'></image> 413 414</div> 415<div class='text-wrapper'> 416<p class="from_wysiwyg">For much of my life - and certainly since 1991, when I made my f
416irst trip to the Antarctic - my life has centered around the cold places in the world: traveling to the North Pole and through the Northwest Passage, visiting Greenland and Iceland, four voyages to Antarctica, living in Alaska and Vermont. For some people, it's an incomprehensible attraction. I made an effort to make it a little more explicable in "The Lure of Cold Places," <a href="https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/2019/11/its-cool-to-be-cold-confessions-of-frigid-weather-fanatics/">a piece for National Geographic</a>, my first piece in the famous yellow magazine, in December 2019.</p> 417</div> 418</div> 419</div> 420 421 422</div> 423<div class='content-wrap'> 424<div class='content-container-wrapper edit'> 425<div class='move-buttons-wrapper'> 426 427 428</div> 429<div class='content clearfix text-block'> 430<div class='image-block-align-left image-wrap-text small'> 431<a href='https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/magazine/how-global-warming-has-changed-what-its-like-to-travel-to-the-north-pole/2018/09/04/09f36ae0-9f0b-11e8-8e87-c869fe70a721_story.html?utm_term=.b2a4034d4e71' target='_blank'> 432<image alt='' sizes='(min-width: 530px) 33vw, (min-width: 940px) 25vw, 100vw' src='/images/0909-cover.jpg' srcset='/images/0909-cover.jpg 480w, /images/0909-cover.jpg 320w'></image> 433 434</a> 435</div> 436<div class='text-wrapper'> 437<p class="from_wysiwyg">In August 2017, I traveled to the North Pole with friends and colleagues from Polar Bears International, on board the Russian nuclear-powered icebreaker 50 Let Pobedy. It was a unique and powerful experience, to be able to stand at the very top of the world; at the same, it was powerfully obvious that all was not as it should have been. The sea ice coverage was not only patchy, it was disturbingly thin. In the September 9 Washington Post Magazine, I argue that, "To travel to the North Pole is to be acutely aware of not only the isolation of the present, but also the weight of the past, of those who sought to be where we now stood, to meet, in the words of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the "challenge of human daring." It is also, increasingly, to consider the future — to wonder whether, just as the window of accessibility is cracking open, the opportunity to see the North Pole as we know and imagine it is already starting to close."</p> 438</div> 439</div> 440</div> 441 442 443</div> 444<div class='content-wrap'> 445<div class='content-container-wrapper edit'> 446<div class='move-buttons-wrapper'> 447 448 449</div> 450<div class='content clearfix text-block'> 451<div class='image-block-align-left image-wrap-text small'> 452<a href='http://www.washingtonpost.com/sf/style/2017/01/26/the-loneliest-whale-in-the-world/'> 453<image alt='' sizes='(min-width: 530px) 33vw, (min-width: 940px) 25vw, 100vw' src='/images/WaPoLonelyWhale204.jpg' srcset='/images/WaPoLonelyWhale204.jpg 480w, /images/WaPoLonelyWhale204.jpg 320w'></image> 454 455</a> 456</div> 457<div class='text-wrapper'> 458<p>in January 2017, the Washington Post Magazine published a cover story by me on the "loneliest whale in the world". It's the story, not so much of a whale, but of the human reaction to it. The whale lives in the North Pacific; it ay be a blue, it may be a fin, or it may be a hybrid of both. It vocalizes at 52Hz - or it used to; it now vocalizes at around 46Hz - which has made it easier for scientists to track it, but has also, for many years, spawned a community of artists, writers, moviemakers, musicians and others to ask: is this whale going unheard by others? Is it alone? Is it lonely?</p> 459</div> 460</div> 461</div> 462 463 464</div> 465<div class='content-wrap'> 466<div class='content-container-wrapper edit'> 467<div class='move-buttons-wrapper'> 468 469 470</div> 471<div class='content clearfix text-block'> 472<div class='image-block-align-left image-wrap-text small'> 473<a href='http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/magazine/travel-olive-oil-in-paciano-italy/2014/09/18/4a1b8542-2879-11e4-958c-268a320a60ce_story.html'> 474<image alt='' sizes='(min-width: 530px) 33vw, (min-width: 940px) 25vw, 100vw' src='/images/WaPoMagPacianoCover012.jpg' srcset='/images/WaPoMagPacianoCover012.jpg 480w, /images/WaPoMagPacianoCover012.jpg 320w'></image> 475 476</a> 477</div> 478<div class='text-wrapper'> 479<p>For a number of years now, several friends and colleagues have lived in Paciano, a small Umbrian village pressed up against the border of Tuscany, among them Leslie Busby (who hired me for Greenpeace when I was 21), Sidney Holt (who inspired me to become a whale-saver when I was even younger), and David McTaggart (a buccaneering presence who was the guiding light for much of the first 20 or so years of the life of Greenpeace). David owned an olive farm there and would regularly seek to press gang colleagues into picking his olives; I demurred, and did not visit Paciano for the first time until 2007, six years after David's death. I returned twice more last year, to finally pick olives and to write about the experience: about my friends, about olive oil, and the village itself. The result is <a href ="http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/magazine/travel-olive-oil-in-paciano-italy/2014/09/18/4a1b8542-2879-11e4-958c-268a320a60ce_story.html"> my latest cover story for the <i>Washington Post Magazine</i></a>.</p> 480</div> 481</div> 482</div> 483 484 485</div> 486<div class='content-wrap'> 487<div class='content-container-wrapper edit'> 488<div class='move-buttons-wrapper'> 489 490 491</div> 492<div class='content clearfix text-block'> 493<div class='image-block-align-left image-wrap-text small'> 494<image alt='' sizes='(min-width: 530px) 33vw, (min-width: 940px) 25vw, 100vw' src='/images/UmbriaInvite-2.jpg' srcset='/images/UmbriaInvite-2.jpg 480w, /images/UmbriaInvite-2.jpg 320w'></image> 495 496</div> 497<div class='text-wrapper'> 498<p>I'm very honored to have been awarded the 'Stories on Umbria' International Journalism Prize for 2014, for the above-mentioned <i>Washington Post Magazine</i> story on Paciano and olive oil. The award will be presented at the International Journalism festival in Perugia on April 18.</p> 499</div> 500</div> 501</div> 502 503 504</div> 505<div class='content-wrap'> 506<div class='content-container-wrapper edit'> 507<div class='move-buttons-wrapper'> 508 509 510</div> 511<div class='content clearfix text-block'> 512<div class='image-block-align-left image-wrap-text small'> 513<image alt='' sizes='(min-width: 530px) 33vw, (min-width: 940px) 25vw, 100vw' src='/images/Tombstone-pic.jpg' srcset='/images/Tombstone-pic.jpg 480w, /images/Tombstone-pic.jpg 320w'></image> 514 515</div> 516<div class='text-wrapper'> 517<p>In September 2011 and again in May 2012, I visited Tombstone, Arizona for a <i>Washington Post Magazine</i>
517 feature. During the 1880s in particular, Tombstone was a bustling mining settlement, and one of the fastest-growing towns in the west. It is most famous, however, for 30 seconds of mayhem on October 26 1881, when Morgan Earp, Virgil Earp, Wyatt Earp and Doc Holliday shot dead Frank McLaury, Tom McLaury and Billy Clanton in a vacant lot close to the OK Corral. The Gunfight at the OK Corral, as it subsequently became known, is arguably the most famous single incident in the history of the Old West; intrigued by just why this should be so and inspired by the movie 'Tombstone', I set out to learn more. I thoroughly enjoyed the experience, which <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/magazine/in-tombstone-ariz-earps-gunfight-at-ok-corral-and-worlds-largest-rose-tree-live-on/2012/09/10/12cacc3e-ec70-11e1-aca7-272630dfd152_story.html">is detailed here</a>. A photo gallery by Post photographer Matt McClain is <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/magazine/in-tombstone-ariz-the-ricochets-of-the-ok-corral/2012/09/12/be531606-fc51-11e1-b153-218509a954e1_gallery.html">here</a>. I also revisited the historical background and context for a <a href="http://news.discovery.com/earth/what-happened-at-the-ok-corral-121026.html">Discovery Channel News blog</a>.</p> 518</div> 519</div> 520</div> 521 522 523</div> 524<div class='content-wrap'> 525<div class='content-container-wrapper edit'> 526<div class='move-buttons-wrapper'> 527 528 529</div> 530<div class='content clearfix text-block'> 531<div class='image-block-align-left image-wrap-text small'> 532<a href='http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&ct=res&cd=1&ved=0CAoQFjAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Fwp-dyn%2Fcontent%2Farticle%2F2009%2F09%2F04%2FAR2009090402431.html&ei=fLjbSsC3GIWN8Ab0_LC3BQ&usg=AFQjCNFgyhj8Ea8QrbJ9A1BGHkhKcwhqnw&sig2=vEDkeQjR'> 533<image alt='' sizes='(min-width: 530px) 33vw, (min-width: 940px) 25vw, 100vw' src='/images/Wapo-coverlo.jpg' srcset='/images/Wapo-coverlo.jpg 480w, /images/Wapo-coverlo.jpg 320w'></image> 534 535</a> 536</div> 537<div class='text-wrapper'> 538<p>In October and November 2008, I visited Churchill, Manitoba, the "polar bear capital of the world," while conducting research for my upcoming book on polar bears, to be published in 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt in the United States and Hutchinson in the United Kingdom. <br><br>I adapted part of the Churchill chapter of my book into an article for <i>The Washington Post Magazine</i>, which in September 2009 published the piece as the cover story for their Fall 2009 Travel Issue. Many thanks to David Rowell at the magazine for his great editing, and to everyone in Churchill - Lance and Irene Duncan, Robert Buchanan, Mike Spence and all the rest - who made my visit there such an enjoyable and informative one. Unfortunately, I wasn't able to return this year, but hope to do so in 2010.<br><br>Click on the image of the cover to read the article online at the <i>Washington Post</i> website</p> 539</div> 540</div> 541</div> 542 543 544</div> 545<div class='content-wrap'> 546<div class='content-container-wrapper edit'> 547<div class='move-buttons-wrapper'> 548 549 550</div> 551<div class='content clearfix text-block'> 552<h4>Kieran Meets Iron Mike</h4> 553</div> 554</div> 555 556 557</div> 558<div class='content-wrap'> 559<div class='content-container-wrapper edit'> 560<div class='move-buttons-wrapper'> 561 562 563</div> 564<div class='content clearfix text-block'> 565<div class='text-wrapper'> 566<p class="from_wysiwyg"><br />In February 2011, I sat down for an on-camera interview with Mike Tyson for ESPN. Tyson talked pigeons, boxing, and the turnaround in his life in recent years.</p> 567<p class="from_wysiwyg"><iframe src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/2MUClIw-eCI" width="560" height="315" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen=""></iframe></p> 568</div> 569</div> 570</div> 571 572 573</div> 574<div class='content-wrap'> 575<div class='content-container-wrapper edit'> 576<div class='move-buttons-wrapper'> 577 578 579</div> 580<div class='content clearfix text-block'> 581<h4>Mulvaney/Gore</h4> 582</div> 583</div> 584 585 586</div> 587<div class='content-wrap'> 588<div class='content-container-wrapper edit'> 589<div class='move-buttons-wrapper'> 590 591 592</div> 593<div class='content clearfix text-block'> 594<div class='image-block-align-left image-wrap-text small'> 595<image alt='' sizes='(min-width: 530px) 33vw, (min-width: 940px) 25vw, 100vw' src='/images/Al-gore-intervi.jpg' srcset='/images/Al-gore-intervi.jpg 480w, /images/Al-gore-intervi.jpg 320w'></image> 596 597</div> 598<div class='text-wrapper'> 599<p>In December 2009, I had the opportunity to sit down with former Vice President Al Gore for an interview for Discovery Channel News. You can see the results <a href="http://news.discovery.com/earth/talking-with-al-gore.html">here</a> and <a href="http://news.discovery.com/earth/the-al-gore-interview.html">here.</a> UPDATE: In September 2011, I was able to speak with the former vice president again, to discu
599ss his Climate Reality Project. Again, the resulting article was posted on Discovery News; you can see it <a href="http://news.discovery.com/earth/gore-plans-24-hours-of-climate-reality-110908.html">here</a></p> 600</div> 601</div> 602</div> 603 604 605</div> 606<div class='content-wrap'> 607<div class='content-container-wrapper edit'> 608<div class='move-buttons-wrapper'> 609 610 611</div> 612<div class='content clearfix text-block'> 613<h4>Wendy Mulvaney, March 7 1929 - September 10 2010</h4> 614</div> 615</div> 616 617 618</div> 619<div class='content-wrap'> 620<div class='content-container-wrapper edit'> 621<div class='move-buttons-wrapper'> 622 623 624</div> 625<div class='content clearfix text-block'> 626</div> 627</div> 628 629 630</div> 631<div class='content-wrap'> 632<div class='content-container-wrapper edit'> 633<div class='move-buttons-wrapper'> 634 635 636</div> 637<div class='content clearfix text-block'> 638<div class='image-block-align-left small'> 639<image alt='' sizes='(min-width: 530px) 33vw, (min-width: 940px) 25vw, 100vw' src='/images/Mother-in-unifo.jpg' srcset='/images/Mother-in-unifo.jpg 480w, /images/Mother-in-unifo.jpg 320w'></image> 640 641<div class='caption'> 642<i>Almost two years after losing the love of her life, to whom she had been married for 54 years, my darling Mother died suddenly, but peacefully, in the early morning of September 10, 2010. She was an extraordinarily kind, caring, and humble woman, and I can still barely imagine a life without her. To her, and to my Father, my fondest and most graetful love, always. </i> 643</div> 644</div> 645</div> 646</div> 647 648 649</div> 650<div class='content-wrap'> 651<div class='content-container-wrapper edit'> 652<div class='move-buttons-wrapper'> 653 654 655</div> 656<div class='content clearfix text-block'> 657<div class='image-block-align-left image-add-border small'> 658<image alt='' sizes='(min-width: 530px) 33vw, (min-width: 940px) 25vw, 100vw' src='/images/Father.jpg' srcset='/images/Father.jpg 480w, /images/Father.jpg 320w'></image> 659 660<div class='caption'> 661<i>My beloved father, Peter Mulvaney, died in the early hours of October 7, 2008, after a long illness. I miss him dearly. It still seems so surreal that he could possibly be gone; all my life I had a father, and suddenly I don't. I console myself with the knowledge that he is now at peace, and that his memory lives on through all those who knew and loved him.</i> 662</div> 663</div> 664</div> 665</div> 666 667 668</div> 669<div class='content-wrap'> 670<div class='content-container-wrapper edit'> 671<div class='move-buttons-wrapper'> 672 673 674</div> 675<div class='content clearfix text-block'> 676<h4>Peter Mulvaney, May 19 1929-October 7 2008</h4> 677</div> 678</div> 679 680 681</div> 682<div class='content-wrap'> 683<div class='content-container-wrapper edit'> 684<div class='move-buttons-wrapper'> 685 686 687</div> 688<div class='content clearfix text-block'> 689<h4>For those who may be wondering who I am and what's in this site:</h4> 690</div> 691</div> 692 693 694</div> 695<div class='content-wrap'> 696<div class='content-container-wrapper edit'> 697<div class='move-buttons-wrapper'> 698 699 700</div> 701<div class='content clearfix text-block'> 702<div class='text-wrapper'> 703<p class="from_wysiwyg">I am an author who has written several books and over 1,000 magazine articles and blog posts. I've traveled to or worked in about twenty countries, and I've lived in four of them -- Britain, the Netherlands, New Zealand, and the United States. I've walked on all seven continents and sailed on the North and South Atlantic, North and South Pacific, Indian, Arctic, and Southern Oceans. I've been a leader on voyages to confront Japanese whalers in the Antarctic, Norwegian whalers in the Arctic, and French driftnet fleets in the North Atlantic. </p> 704<p class="from_wysiwyg"> </p> 705<p class="from_wysiwyg">In 1987, I was co-founder of the Whale and Dolphin Conservation Society (now known simply as Whale and Dolphin Conservation), and from 1989 to 1995 (and then again from 2005-7 and 2009-10), I worked in various capacities for Greenpeace, primarily as a spokesperson on and specialist in whaling, fisheries and other ocean issues, and latterly as a coordinator of assorted expeditions. I have been an adviser to a number of different organizations, including the International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW) and Polar Bears International (PBI).</p> 706</div> 707</div> 708</div> 709 710 711</div> 712<div class='content-wrap'> 713<div class='content-container-wrapper edit'> 714<div class='move-buttons-wrapper'> 715 716 717</div> 718<div class='content clearfix text-block'> 719<div class='text-wrapper'> 720<p>Some of my writing credits:</p> 721</div> 722</div> 723</div> 724 725 726</div> 727<div class='content-wrap'> 728<div class='content-container-wrapper edit'> 729<div class='move-buttons-wrapper'> 730 731 732</div> 733<div class='content clearfix text-block'> 734<div class='text-wrapper'> 735<p class="from_wysiwyg">In 2012 and early 2013 I was the editor of the Upwell <em>Tide Report</em>, a two-to-three-times-weekly e-mail newsletter of ocean news and campaigns, and was previously editor of <em>Ocean Update</em>, a monthly newsletter published by <a href="http://www.seaweb.org">SeaWeb</a> and distributed to environment and science journalists and other interested parties across the nation and around the world. <br /><br />I've written articles on science and environment issues for such outlets as <em>The Washington Post Magazine</em>, <em>The Guardian</em>, <em>The (London) Sunday Times Magazine</em>, <em>National Geographic</em>, <em>New Scientist</em>, <em>New Internationalist</em>, <em>BBC Wildlife, HISTORY,</em> and <em>E Magazine</em>. From 2009 to 2017, I was a blogger and reporter for Discovery Channel News, a gig that I deeply loved; and I have been at various times a correspondent for and contributor to Reuters, ESPN.com, and HBO.com. <br /><br />I contributed chapters to the books <em>Beyond the Bars: The Zoo Dilemma</em> (1987), <em>Conservation of Whales and Dolphins: Science and Practice </em>(1996), <em>Whale Watching </em>(1999), <em>Seas at the Millennium: An Environmental Assessment</em> (2000), <em>The Future of Cetaceans in a Changing World</em> (2003), and <em>Feeling the Heat: Dispatches from the Front Lines of Climate Change </em> (2004), and wrote the afterword for a new edition of the classic polar adventure by Admiral Richard Byrd, <em>Alone</em> (2003).<br /><br />I wrote the main text for the <em>Greenpeace Book of Dolphins</em> (1990), wrote the text for <em>Witness: Twenty-Five Years on the Environmental Front Line</em> (1996), and I'm the author of <em>At the Ends of the Earth: A History of the Polar Regions</em>, (Island Press, 2001), <em>The Whaling Season: An Inside Account of the Struggle to Stop Commercial Whaling</em> (Island Press, 2003), and <em>The Great White Bear: A Natural & Unnatural History of the Polar Bear</em> (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2011; published in the UK by Hutchinson as <em>Ice Bear: A Natural & Unnatural History of the Polar Bear</em>).<br /><br />Since 2005, I have also written about and broadcast on boxing, first for ESPN.com, then also Reuters, for several years for HBO, and now for Showtime.<br /><br />To check out some of my publications, click on the link at the top of the page or check out the individual titles to the right. And if you're burning to learn more about Kieran the person, click on "Biography." Leave a comment in the "Discu
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