From Nine to Noon 15 May 2015
McKenzie Funk is an author and journalist who has been investigating the ways people are responding to the effects of climate change. His latest book, The Wreck of the Kulluk details how Royal Dutch Shell tried and failed to begin drilling for oil in the Beaufort sea in the Arctic in 2012. Melting sea ice has made the area more accessible, but the exploratory drilling rig, the Kulluk, was battered by storms and its crew had to be rescued. Shell however, is planning to return to the remote Chukchi sea off Northwestern Alaska, and has been granted conditional approval by the US government to begin exploratory drilling.
McKenzie Funk earlier book Windfall looks at how different companies and countries are profitting off climate change.
Uummannaq, Greenland. Fjords in Greenland are melting earlier and freezing later, extending the season for shipping and icebergs.
Black Angel Mine, Greenland. As Greenland’s glaciers recede, revealing mineral deposits, mines like Black Angel are expected to help fund its push for independence from Denmark.
Ashkelon, Israel. On the hunt for potable water, Israeli desalination engineers invented the world’s greatest snowmaker, a product now in use in the melting Alps.
All-American Canal, California. During a historic drought in Southern California, the All-American Canal was reengineered in order to get more water to San Diego, less to Mexico.
Juba, South Sudan. As food prices spiked, the hedge fund manager Phil Heilberg (right) cut a deal with Gabriel Matip, the son of a feared South Sudanese general, for millions of acres of farmland.
India-Bangladesh border. The world's longest border fence is being built around Bangladesh to keep migrants at bay.
Devon Island, Nunavut, Canada. A Canadian soldier stands guard at the edge of the Northwest Passage, an emerging shipping lane as the Arctic melts.
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