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Women in Tech RegattaCity Nature Challenge 2024
City Nature Challenge 2024
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April 26, 2024 – April 29, 2024Help the Seattle-Tacoma Metropolitan Area (including Everett, Seattle, Bellevue, Tacoma and any place within Snohomish, King and Pierce counties!) show the world how biodiverse our region is by making as many observations of as many species as possible during the 2024 City Nature Challenge, April 26 - April 29!
SciLine Media Briefing: "Climate and agriculture: pests, pathogens, and pollinators"SciLine Media Briefing: "Climate and agriculture: pests, pathogens, and pollinators"
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April 29, 2024SciLine Media Briefing: "Climate and agriculture: pests, pathogens, and pollinators"
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Women in Tech RegattaSociety for Environmental Journalists' Awards for Reporting on the Environment Deadline
Society for Environmental Journalists' Awards for Reporting on the Environment Deadline
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April 30, 2024Society for Environmental Journalists' Awards for Reporting on the Environment Deadline
Book talk: Zoë Schlanger with Brooke JarvisBook talk: Zoë Schlanger with Brooke Jarvis
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April 30, 2024Sponsored by Town Hall Seattle
Did you know that plants can hear sounds? And have a social life? Science writer Zoë Schlanger shares even more remarkable plant talents in her latest book, The Light Eaters, illustrating the tremendous biological creativity it takes to be a plant. To survive and thrive while rooted in a single spot, plants have adapted ingenious methods of survival. They communicate. They recognize their own kin. Schlanger immerses into the world of being a plant, into its drama and complexity.
Scientists have learned that plants, rather than imitate human intelligence, have perhaps formed a parallel system. What is intelligent life, Schlanger argues, if not a vine that grows leaves to blend into the shrub on which it climbs, a flower that shapes its bloom to fit exactly the beak of its pollinator, a pea seedling that can hear water flowing, and make its way toward it?
Our understanding and definition of a plant is rapidly changing. So then what do we owe these life forms once we come to comprehend their rich and varied abilities? An eye-opening and informative look at the ecosystem we live in, Schlanger challenges us to rethink the role of plants—and our own place—in the natural world.
Zoë Schlanger is a staff writer at the Atlantic, where she covers climate change. Her work has appeared in the New York Times, the New York Review of Books, Time, Newsweek, The Nation, Quartz, and on NPR among other major outlets, and in the 2022 Best American Science and Nature Writing anthology. A recipient of a 2017 National Association of Science Writers’ reporting award, she is often a guest speaker in schools and universities.
Brooke Jarvis is an award-winning journalist who writes for The New York Times Magazine, The New Yorker, and elsewhere.
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