by Susan Keown | Feb 26, 2024 | ScienceWire
For bioGraphic, Ashley Braun brings us to the foothills of the Sierra Nevadas to learn about how the North Fork Mono Tribe is revitalizing cultural burning practices to encourage the growth of culturally significant native plants, control pests and invasive species,...
by Susan Keown | Feb 26, 2024 | ScienceWire
For Politico, Eric Scigliano writes about the many local geological hazards that are not, somehow, accounted for in FEMA’s new National Risk Index. The ambitious federal project intends to map disaster risks across the country to aid in the allocation of funds for...
by Susan Keown | Feb 26, 2024 | ScienceWire
For Oregon State University’s Strata Magazine, Nancy Steinberg profiles the work of Astrid Leitner, who studies areas of the ocean that have rarely — or never — been explored. Steinberg explains the tools and techniques the scientist uses to observe and take samples...
by Susan Keown | Feb 26, 2024 | ScienceWire
Rebecca Dzombak writes for High Country News about a backlash to the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife’s draft conservation policy, amid concerns from hunters and sport fishers that their use of public lands is being sidelined, and from Indigenous groups...
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...
