by Susan Keown | Dec 16, 2023 | ScienceWire
Writing for Audubon Magazine, Mara Grunbaum follows a snowshoeing scientist as she searches the Cascades for the Clark’s nutcracker. Due to a convergence of threats, stands of the birds’ favorite tree are becoming harder to find. The seeds of the critically endangered...
by Susan Keown | Dec 16, 2023 | ScienceWire
Hannah Hickey writes for UW News about new research in ice cores that suggests the condition of North Atlantic’s phytoplankton populations is not as dire as scientists have feared. Phytoplankton — tiny floating photosynthesizers — are at the base of the ocean’s food...
by Susan Keown | Oct 11, 2023 | ScienceWire
For NASA’s Earth Observatory, Lindsey Doermann writes about new research showing that our oceans are turning more green. Caused by growth of phytoplankton, this shift was predicted by climate-change models, although researchers can’t yet pinpoint the specific...
by Susan Keown | Jul 7, 2023 | ScienceWire
Writing for Science Alert, Carla Cassella (@carlycassella) highlights chaotic new patterns in jet streams, the currents of air that wrap around the planet. The currents are splitting at such an extreme rate that the experts Cassella quotes used words like “insane” to...
by Susan Keown | Apr 5, 2023 | ScienceWire
Vince Beiser (@VinceBeiser) won in the journalism category in the 2022 NSWA Best of the Northwest Awards for his story on the ongoing efforts to trap carbon in stone as a way to slow climate change. The judges wrote that Beiser used an engaging writing style to...
