Author: jonathanslaght

• Arsenyev in the Land

  My latest from Scientific American: Crossing a channel of the Serebryanka River, a place explored by Arsenyev in 1906. I feel a kinship with Vladimir Arsenyev, the Russian topographer who explored…

• Tigers & the Art of Persuasion

  The latest from my Scientific American series, East of Siberia: THE TEMPERATE RAINFORESTS OF PRIMORYE become dense and green in summer, a vastness lost on those within it. Visibility can drop to…

• An Osprey, Until It Wasn’t

    The latest from my Scientific American series, East of Siberia: In autumn, 2012, hunters found a young osprey wandering the forest of coastal Primorye. Whereas most of these fish-eating raptors…