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End of Wilderness: The Wide Angle

by Larry O'Hanlon | June 08, 2009

It's time for another Discovery Earth special feature...


  • Blog: The Four Flavors of Wilderness  
    Larry O'Hanlon tries mightily to define what a "wilderness" is. And fails. Sort of. Read it and decide for yourself.
  • Puzzles: Earth's Most Remote Places  
    Get an eyeful of remoteness. There aren't many truly remote places left on our planet. Find out where they are and what some of them look like.
  • IM Interview: End of Nature As We Know It?  
    Author and professor Tony Barnosky chats with Discovery Earth producer Larry O'Hanlon about what global warming is doing to wilderness areas and the revolutionary solutions that we can -- and must -- apply to the problem. The alternative isn't pretty.
  • Video: Human Effects on World Ecology Mapped  
    Discovery News' Jorge Ribas explores how one ecologist wants to throw out the idea of "pristine" wilderness and focus on human-ecology.
  • Slide Show: 10 Ways Humans Have Changed Antarctica  
    It's supposed to be the most remote, pristine wilderness on Earth. HowStuffWorks.com takes us on an exclusive visual tour of the coldest continent to see 10 ways it isn't so spotless.

Larry O'Hanlon
is Discovery Earth's producer. Before that he wrote 1,000-odd science stories for Discovery News. Larry started out as a geologist, spent a little time as a ranger in Death Valley, then moved into writing about Earth and environmental sciences for every sort of media outlet. He lives with his wife and kids in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

Kieran Mulvaney
is the author of At the Ends of the Earth: A History of the Polar Regions and The Whaling Season: An Inside Account of the Struggle to Stop Commercial Whaling. He’s finishing a book on polar bears. He’s co-founder of the Whale and Dolphin Conservation Society, a leader of Greenpeace expeditions to Antarctica and the Arctic.

John D. Cox
is the author of Climate Crash: Abrupt Climate Change & What It Means for Our Future; Storm Watchers: The Turbulent History of Weather Prediction from Franklin’s Kite to El Niño, and Weather For Dummies: A Reference For The Rest of Us. His journalism career includes the Sacramento Bee, Reuter Ltd., & UPI. He lives in northern California.

Michael Reilly
is a volcanologist and Earth science writer for Discovery News. In the past, Michael has worked for New Scientist, Wired, the Newark Star-Ledger, and Gawker Media's science fiction blog, io9. He lives alarmingly close to the San Andreas fault, along with 7 million other people in the San Francisco Bay Area.

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