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North America


Breaking Old Ground
Instead of contributing to climate change, can growing food combat it?

Liz Mirabelli Nye
Dec 5, 20229 min read


From the Doctor’s Office to Online Chat Rooms, Women Are Talking About Their Missing Periods
"So if we’re not training the doctors and a woman comes in with this condition, doctors will not know what to ask or how to treat it."

Ellie Rose Mattoon
Nov 22, 20228 min read


Perspective: What's the Point of Diversity in STEM Without Inclusion?
It is one thing to be physically in a space, but it is another to feel like I belong.

Lauren Neal
Oct 6, 20228 min read


Silver Storm: Once-in-A-lifetime Ice Storm Wrecks Trees in “Oregon’s Garden City”
“If you’re in the central Willamette Valley tonight,” the meteorologist on the news said, matter-of-factly, “you will lose power.”

Becca Owen
Aug 25, 20226 min read


Cross-Pollinating for the Collective
For many Indigenous communities across Central and South America, the study of stingless bees is integral to their culture.

Carolyn Bernhardt
Aug 9, 202213 min read


How a Local Journalist Reported on the Dixie Fire in His Backyard
I knew the Dixie Fire was unprecedented. I knew that climate change had a role in its massive size. I also knew that not all of it was bad.

Richard Bednarski
Aug 2, 20225 min read


Perspective: Two Years of COVID and Counting, Medicine Still Does Not Value Black Lives
When we throw up the white flag with our approach to COVID, we are simply saying that racism is a public health crisis but we don’t care.

Naa Asheley Ashitey
Jul 22, 20227 min read


Perspective: Saving Sapelo Island's Legacy from Sinking
But it is necessary to put research into context to understand how past events are shaping the island’s future – land, life, and people.

Jess Turner
Jul 16, 20224 min read


Are Our Sierra Nevada Towns Destined to Go Down in Flames?
Nearly twenty years after I left town, wildfires are posing a whole new threat to my homeland.

Richard Bednarski
Jul 12, 20229 min read


Posible, probable, por supuesto: la evolución de la certeza en el reportaje de COVID-19
El reportaje de COVID-19 demuestra cómo la retórica puede cambiar profundamente la percepción de un hecho científico por parte del lector.

Rose Schnabel
Jul 1, 20226 min read
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