Heather Pringle’s Contributions:
Saving the Ocean One Outfit at a Time
The sea suffers for fashion. Kombucha leather and leased jeans to the rescue.
Sep 26, 2017 | 2,900 words, about 15 minutes
Homo Sapiens Just Got Older—Way, Way Older
Bones found in Morocco place our lineage 100,000 years earlier and nowhere near where we thought.
Jun 7, 2017 | 850 words, about 4 minutes
In the Land of Lost Gardens
Tireless in her quest, ethnobotanist Nancy Turner works with indigenous elders to preserve plant knowledge dating back to the First People in the New World.
Jun 6, 2017 | 3,100 words, about 15 minutes
From Vilified to Vindicated: the Story of Jacques Cinq-Mars
How a toxic debate over the first Americans hobbled science for decades.
Mar 7, 2017 | 2,900 words, about 15 minutes
A Sunken Bridge the Size of a Continent
A remote Arctic land may hold a vital missing chapter from human history. The only problem? It disappeared at the end of the last ice age.
Sep 20, 2016 | 3,000 words, about 15 minutes
The Little Man Who Soared
On Haida Gwaii, indigenous artists carved portraits of the strange newcomers who landed on their shores.
Aug 5, 2016 | 650 words, about 3 minutes
How Ancient Rome’s 1% Hijacked the Beach
The rich, the poor, and the battle for the Bay of Naples.
Apr 5, 2016 | 2,600 words, about 13 minutes
The Feather Cloak of Captain Cook
When Captain Cook and his crew landed on Hawaii to restock their provisions, the island’s high chief gave the cloak off his back to the British explorer.
Feb 1, 2016 | 700 words, about 3 minutes
A Parka and a Fashionista
Designers for the Paris runways have nothing on the seamstresses of the Bering Sea’s St. Lawrence Island.
Nov 18, 2015 | 750 words, about 3 minutes
A Little Game of Thrones
There are no dragons, but fierce kings and anxious queens are depicted in these rare medieval chess pieces uncovered on the Isle of Lewis.
Aug 5, 2015 | 550 words, about 2 minutes
Time Travelers
Could these be the oldest human footprints in North America?
Jun 22, 2015 | 2,100 words, about 10 minutes
The Girl with the Shimmering Eyes
A mysterious 19th-century Haida carver breaks artistic ground and creates a rare, and stunning, portrait.
May 27, 2015 | 500 words, about 2 minutes
True Blue
Far from its origins, a new pigment appeared on an Alaskan island and made an artistic splash.
Apr 22, 2015 | 400 words, about 2 minutes
The Ghosts of Cannery Row
Despite its picturesque beauty, Canada’s cannery row was straight out of the Industrial Revolution, with an added measure of racial segregation.
Apr 22, 2015 | 4,400 words, about 22 minutes
The Brine Revolution
Did lowly shellfish change the world?
Apr 22, 2015 | 3,400 words, about 17 minutes