by Susan Keown | Nov 2, 2024 | ScienceWire
Josephine Ensign’s new book, “Way Home: Journeys Through Homelessness,” is now available for preorder from Hopkins Press. From the publisher: “In ‘Way Home,’ Josephine Ensign explores the contemporary landscape of homelessness by focusing on Seattle in King County to...
by Susan Keown | Nov 2, 2024 | ScienceWire
For Hakai Magazine, Kevin Gepford takes us along on a journey to the Galapagos’ most-developed island to meet the famed tortoises as they struggle to tread the seasonal migration routes they’ve used for hundreds of thousands of years. Increasing development has...
by Susan Keown | Nov 2, 2024 | ScienceWire
In a deeply reported feature for the Seattle Times, Lynda Mapes dives into the ongoing battle in Washington over the fate of our second-growth forests on public lands, some over a century old, which are sequestering carbon and nurturing flourishing, diverse ecosystems...
by Susan Keown | Nov 2, 2024 | ScienceWire
A story by Lisa Stiffler in GeekWire explains how Everett company TerraPower Isotopes has managed to produce a rare cancer-drug ingredient, actinium-225, from nuclear waste. Though it has access to only the equivalent of 17 pennies’ in weight of source material from...
by Susan Keown | Nov 2, 2024 | ScienceWire
Mark Harris writes a decarbonization newsletter for Anthropocene Magazine, “Fixing Carbon: Dispatches From an Emerging Future,” which examines issues in climate technology and economics. His two October issues ask whether tariffs on foreign EVs and low-carbon...