Christine Shearer

Christine Shearer is a postdoctoral scholar in science, technology, and society studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and a researcher for CoalSwarm, part of SourceWatch.

Fuel Tanker Finally Reaches Iced-In Alaska Town

Posted by Christine Shearer on January 16, 2012
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The Russian-flagged tanker Renda makes its way through the Bering Sea ice on Jan. 8. The tanker arrived at Nome over the weekend. (Image via U.S. Coast Guard/Flickr)

The Russian tanker Renda, loaded with 1.3 million gallons of fuel, finally made it to Nome over the weekend, ending a journey that began in mid-December and involved breaking through more than 300 miles of ice. It followed a path plotted and sheared out by the U.S. Coast Guard’s currently only operating Arctic icebreaker, the…

Alaska Storm Bears Down on Village That Spearheaded Climate Change Battle

Posted by Christine Shearer on November 9, 2011
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As a superstorm of historic proportions slams Alaska’s West Coast, one of the low-lying villages at grave risk is Kivalina, the tiny community already so battered by climate change, it three years ago launched a lawsuit against two dozen oil and other fossil fuel companies seeking relocation costs.  That case was dismissed but a ruling…