#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.
Gepford: Tortoise Migration
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...
Mapes: Forest Feud
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...
Stiffler: Cancer Drug Ingredient from Nuclear Waste
A story by Lisa Stiffler in GeekWire explains how Everett company TerraPower Isotopes has managed to produce a rare cancer-drug ingredient, actinium-225, from nuclear waste. Though it has access to only the equivalent of 17 pennies’ in weight of source material from...
Harris: Fixing Carbon
Mark Harris writes a decarbonization newsletter for Anthropocene Magazine, “Fixing Carbon: Dispatches From an Emerging Future,” which examines issues in climate technology and economics. His two October issues ask whether tariffs on foreign EVs and low-carbon...
Haydon: Protein Design Podcast
Ian Haydon is leading the production of a new podcast from Dr. David Baker’s lab at the University of Washington, whose goal is to shine a spotlight on the people behind the group’s work on protein design. Haydon leads all aspects of the show, including planning,...