Daily Climate: Oregon-based photographer Gary Braasch flew to Alaska, chartered a plane in the town of Deadhorse, far above the Arctic Circle, and flew out to the rigs. His photographs provide, for the first time, a sense of perspective of the Kulluk rig in its environment, 12 miles offshore of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.
“The location has been published for years in Shell’s permits,” he said in a phone interview. “We just went out there and, sure enough, there it was. But having the landscape just…

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