by Susan Keown | Sep 4, 2021 | ScienceWire
Plans for the controversial Pebble Mine in Alaska’s Bristol Bay region have hit a major roadblock, reports Ashley Braun (@ashleybraun) for Crosscut, with a deal recently negotiated by an area Alaska Native village corporation. The Pedro Bay Corporation plans to sell...
by Susan Keown | Sep 4, 2021 | ScienceWire
The latest in Ensia’s “Troubled Waters” series about the safety of the water supply, this story by Maria Dolan (@mariaidolan) reveals that many communities around the U.S., especially in the Southwest, are drinking water contaminated by unsafe levels of arsenic....
by Susan Keown | Sep 4, 2021 | ScienceWire
Peter Fairley’s (@pfairley) latest piece for InvestigateWest’s “Decarbonizing Cascadia” series discusses the movement for a stronger, coordinated electrical grid along the West Coast. A system built on centralized control centers with longer power lines, and boosted...
by Susan Keown | Sep 4, 2021 | ScienceWire
Sally James (@jamesian) profiles Dr. Anisa Ibrahim for the South Seattle Emerald, explaining how a Somali girl in a Kenyan refugee camp found her way to Seattle and then into a career in medicine — and what her history and experiences bring to the care she offers her...
by Susan Keown | Aug 3, 2021 | ScienceWire
In the first issue of Strata, Abby Metzger and Nancy Steinberg look back at Oregon’s devastating 2020 fires and what that and other conflagrations in the state’s history can teach scientists about the wildfires in our future. They examine how climate change causes the...
by Susan Keown | Aug 3, 2021 | ScienceWire
Jane C. Hu (@jane_c_hu) writes for Biographic about how the cicadas that appeared in such numbers this summer on the East Coast nevertheless seem to be in decline. Habitat destruction, pesticides and climate change are threats but, she explains, the kind of population...
