OnEarth Stories Now on Kindle from Amazon
We’re pleased to tell you that selected OnEarth stories will now be available for the Kindle.
Our first offering is “Arctic Fever,” the cover story to our Spring 2011 issue. It’s by Bruce Barcott, a 2009 Guggenheim Fellow in nonfiction, author of The Last Flight of the Scarlet Macaw (named one of the best books of 2008 by Library Journal), and an award-winning contributor to The New York Times Magazine, National Geographic, Outside, and other publications.
Barcott takes readers 33 miles north of the Arctic Circle, to Kotzebue, Alaska, where rain is falling on a 35-degree day during a month when the temperature would normally hover near zero. The thawing of the far north is one of the signal ecological events of our time, and Barcott’s story chronicles how warmer temperatures and melting sea ice are wreaking havoc on the Arctic food web. He tracks this impact from algae to cod to seals to polar bears and, finally, to the humans of Kotzebue and similar native villages, where more than two-thirds of the local diet comes from the Arctic Ocean and the frozen tundra.
Here’s the Kindle version. And if you prefer to read it the old-fashioned way (and we truly live in strange times when the web can be described as “the old-fashioned way”), here’s the story on our site.
You don’t need a Kindle to read the stories there. They’re available through the Kindle app, which means you can also read them on an iPad, iPhone, BlackBerry, Android, and most other smartphones. We hope e-reader users appreciate our efforts to make OnEarth stories available in a new format.
If you like what you see, come back to onearth.org for more or subscribe to our print edition. (Now that’s really old-fashioned, but we still love it.)
