by Susan Keown | Jan 19, 2025 | ScienceWire
In her feature in Hakai Magazine, new member Adrienne Mason embeds us in the Canadian Coast Guard’s Coastal Nations Search and Rescue program, which formally recognizes a longstanding reality: Coastal Indigenous peoples are often the first rescuers on the scene when...
by Susan Keown | Jan 19, 2025 | ScienceWire
New member Amanda Monthei, a former wildlands firefighter, is the sole producer and host of the monthly Life With Fire podcast, which explores how humans can coexist better with this destructive — and regenerative — force. Her most recent episode, the last of a series...
by Susan Keown | Jan 19, 2025 | ScienceWire
New member Malissa Rodenburg cowrote a new piece in Run about how air quality affects runners. She and her coauthor take a look at what can be in dirty air and what scientists know of how the various gases and particles affect different systems of the body. So what’s...
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...
