#NSWASCIWIRE
Recent work by our members#nswasciwire highlights the published writing of NSWA members each month. Would you like to see your writing featured? Please suggest an item online or send a link or PDF file to Susan Keown at sciencewire@nwscience.org. The NSWA Board of Directors determines what material to present. We look forward to highlighting your work.
Geiger: Pygmy Rabbit Conservation
Twenty years ago there were only a few dozen pygmy rabbits left in the Columbia Basin, Beth Geiger writes for the Nature Conservancy. Since then, governments, universities, organizations and bunny-loving individuals have worked together to try to breed the species in...
Draxler: Climate Justice
In Yes! Magazine, Breanna Draxler (@BreannaDraxler) writes about climate activists who approach their work through a lens of justice. Built on a holistic understanding of environment, the environmental justice movement is dedicated to dismantling the systems of...
Morber: Whale Poop
Jenny Morber (@JRMorber) provides us with the delightfully vivid description of whale excrement we never knew we needed in her recent story for Slate. She discusses new research suggesting that baleen whales defecate much more than previously thought — great news for...
Rosen: ‘Earthworms’ a 2021 Best
Julia Rosen’s (@1juliarosen) January 2020 story for The Atlantic about invasive earthworms is featured in the just-released 2021 edition of The Best American Science and Nature Writing. Rosen delves into the lives of our neighborhood annelids and lets us all in on a...
Bush: Warming Planet, Hot Cities
New NSWA member Evan Bush (@evanbush) reports for NBC News on research that shows just how vulnerable the increasing numbers of people living in cities are to extreme heat and humidity driven by climate change. Since 1983, global extreme heat exposure in cities nearly...