by Chris Tachibana | Jul 1, 2019 | ScienceWire
A real-life spy operation is behind Mark Harris’s report for OneZero, a Medium publication about tech and science. In an exclusive story, Mark @meharris describes how the U.S. government deployed a shadowy security unit—Team Telecom—into Vietnam after learning that a...
by Chris Tachibana | Jul 1, 2019 | ScienceWire
Over a month this spring, Wudan Yan filed four reports from Myanmar for Mongabay, a nonprofit conservation and environmental science news platform. Wudan (@wudanyan) looked at the environmental threat of harvesting mangroves for illegal coal production and a possible...
by Chris Tachibana | Jul 1, 2019 | ScienceWire
Activists get technical in a story by Wayt Gibbs for Anthropocene magazine. Low-cost instruments and abundant ingenuity are democratizing surveillance, Wayt writes. The examples are brilliant: crowdsourcing the identification and location of fracking ponds with...
by Chris Tachibana | Jun 1, 2019 | ScienceWire
It’s a weasel-like carnivore not much bigger than a kitten and was thought to be extinct. Sylvia Kantor describes the Humboldt marten in a report for Science Findings for the U.S. Forest Service Pacific Northwest Research Station. The rare subspecies of the...
by Chris Tachibana | Jun 1, 2019 | ScienceWire
The debate on your plate, if you’re a salmon enthusiast, is about farmed versus wild-caught salmon. Eric Stavney draws on his background as a biology teacher for an informative two-part series on the topic for The Norwegian American. Learn about the nutrition...
by Chris Tachibana | Jun 1, 2019 | ScienceWire
The Southern Resident orcas have strong social networks, writes Sarah DeWeerdt for Encyclopedia of Puget Sound, from the Puget Sound Institute, University of Washington. Sarah’s piece tells detailed family stories about orcas that bond in matriarchal groups,...
