Kieran Mulvaney

For a guy who gets paid (at least partly) to blog, I sure am pretty bad at maintaining the blog on my own website. But it's all good: I have finished my book manuscript, and the book is now entering production. It will be called The Great White Bear in the United States, and Ice Bear in the United Kingdom. (more…)

My Al Gore interview is up on the Discovery News website, in two blogs here and here.

I've been meaning to wind down after finishing my book, and I will - very soon. First though, one big assignment: interviewing Al Gore for Discovery Channel News. I'll be talking to him about climate change (of course), the Copenhagen negotiations, and his new book, "Our Choice." That interview will be tomorrow, December 8; I'm looking forward to it but also a little anxious. And then afterward, I'm TOTALLY putting my feet up for a little while.

Finally. Three weeks late - but 15,000 words longer - I have submitted the draft manuscript for my polar bear book. Publication date: Fall 2010. Greater specificity to follow. Now, I must sleep.

My book deadline is one week from today. Last night I went to bed feeling moderately certain that I would at least be OK on quantity, if not the quality - I reckoned I could deliver the entire manuscript, but I wasn't confident that the most recently and hurriedly written chapters would be of sufficient quality. (more…)

This time last year, I was in the middle of a two-day train journey from Winnipeg to Churchill, as part of my great polar bear adventure. It's amazing how rapidly time flies. Alas, I couldn't get it together to return to Churchill this year, but I have every intention of doing so in 2010. By then, all being well, my book will be published; my deadline is November 9, so I'd better get back to it.

Where have I been? What have I been doing? Maintaining my other blog, over at Discovery Channel's Earth Pub, for one thing. (more…)

I'm still in Europe, and will be until mid-June. I am on a six-month contract as Arctic Project Leader for Greenpeace International, developing and implementing an expedition to Greenland and the Arctic Ocean on board the "Arctic Sunrise." (more…)

Twenty years ago, almost to the day, I moved to this city. I lived here from 1989 to 1994, when I worked for Greenpeace International, and then I left for the United States, where I have lived since. For the next month or so, I'm again living in Amsterdam, (more…)

Three days ago, we committed my father's ashes to the sea, and his journey came to its final destination. (more…)