In my first piece for Sierra Magazine, I write about harp seal pupping and the effects of climate change on the ice they (and humans in the region of the Magdalen Islands, Quebec) need for survival.

“Stuffed into the back of a helicopter and wearing a large, orange survival suit, I watched the fractured sea ice below pass like confetti. We were searching for harp seals on the stable ice floes in Canada’s Gulf of St. Lawrence—but those floes, and the seals who depend on them, are becoming harder to find…” Read and share the piece at Sierra Magazine.