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Outside Magazine: Honey Stinger
This article was originally posted in Outside Magazine. By Dean Kuipers, November 26, 2012. The FBI used an 18-year-old woman called "Anna" to infiltrate an alleged eco-terrorism cell. Did she stop a bomb plot before it came off? Or did she launch one?
Shepherding the Sea: Dr. Reese Halter
Conservation biologist Reese Halter, whom you might know from YouTube or MSNBC or the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, writes books that revel in the wonder of nature. But in his newest book, Shepherding the Sea: The Race to Save Our Oceans, Dr. Halter has gone past wonder to take the offensive, arguing vociferously that a collapse of ocean ecology threatens all life on Earth.
Men’s Journal: Are the Alps Crumbling?
This article was originally posted in Men's Journal By Dean Kuipers Dec 2014 Rising temperatures are causing more rock slides on the world's biggest mountains. Credit: Jon Griffith / Aurora Two days after [...]
Operation Bite Back: Rod Coronado's War to Save American Wilderness
Rod Coronado's most spectacular act of eco-sabotage occurred on the evening of November 8, 1986. Coronado and David Howitt, both about 20 years old and members of the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, sought to do nothing less than cripple Iceland's whaling fleet and draw attention to countries flouting a global ban on the hunting of whales then in place. Camouflaged in dark rain gear and ski masks, they first destroyed the Hvalfjordur whaling station, smashing its computer control room, confiscating record books to prove that Iceland was still killing whales, and dumping expensive repair equipment into the fjord.
Operation Bite Back on Very Short List
Operation Bite Back was featured on the Very Short List for today, August 20, 2009.
Christian Science Monitor: “Operation Bite Back” major reviews
The new review on the Christian Science Monitor site reminds me that I haven’t put up the other terrific reviews of the book posted by other sites. I’m proud of what’s been said about the [...]
“Operation Bite Back” on Christian Science Monitor
Very nice piece on the book just went up on Christian Science Monitor site. Nice intro, good interview. And it’s available as a Podcast on their site. You can find it here. The book is [...]
Parsing the Word “Terrorism”
Operation Bite Back — radical environmentalists and animal rights activists whose actions are now the subject of terrorism prosecution
‘Operation Bite Back’ on Book TV and tour
On Saturday, June 27, we had a nice turnout at Book Soup in West Hollywood, with “Book TV” in the house, really smart questions and a good discussion.
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Welcome to Dean’s bloggy hollow, it’s about books and woods and big mountain snow and people who devote themselves to the preservation of wild-er-ness and my friends and Jenkins, the good-natured little dog that ate L.A., and journalism and making newspapers and heroes who are too numerous to count and that makes me lucky.