Author: jonathanslaght

  • A Kettle of Firewood

    This post first appeared on 16 March, 2016 on Scientific American.   Amgu, like many of the small, sparsely-scattered coastal villages of Russia’s northern Primorye, faces whimsies of nature on…

  • Clean Water & Healthy Living

    This post first appeared 01 March, 2016 on Scientific American Despite nearly twenty years of experience in the Russian Far East, I unambiguously remain an outsider here. I am clumsy…

  • A Brief Encounter with a Goral

    Languid waves massage the sands of Khuntami Bay below, while somewhere inland a wildfire smolders and pushes an ashy haze towards the Sea of Japan.