The New Yorker
Sweden’s Pandemic Experiment. When the coronavirus arrived, the country decided not to implement lockdowns or recommend masks. How has it fared?
The New York Times Magazine
We Had No Power. Women at the Salk Institute say they faced a culture of marginalization and hostility. The numbers from other elite scientific institutions suggest they’re not alone.
Why Hollywood’s Most Thrilling Scenes Are Now Orchestrated Thousands of Miles Away. The visual effects industry, and the “movie magic” blockbuster films spend huge shares of their budgets on, are being lured away from California — and into two of the most expensive cities in the world.
The Guardian
Trump Administration sabotages major conservation effort, defying Congress. My investigation revealed federal support to research centers was cut off as scientists fear years of successful work will go ‘down the drain.’
US interior secretary's school friend blocking climate research, scientists say. My reporting uncovered that the Trump administration forced some scientific funding to be reviewed by an adviser who was a high-school football teammate of Ryan Zinke with no scientific credentials.
Slate
Cabernet With a Side of Carbon. Napa’s wineries are embracing carbon farming—is it greenwash or a climate solution?
Is Mass Surveillance the Future of Conservation? It’s hard to catch illegal fishing in international waters—unless you turn to drones and birds strapped with spying devices.
Popular Science
A red tide devastated Florida marine life for 16 months. Why?Researchers wonder how much climate change is fueling killer algae around the world.
MIT Technology Review
A powerful new model could make global warming estimates less vague. One of the biggest sources of climate uncertainty is how clouds will behave. Caltech physicist Tapio Schneider is trying to give us some answers. (Q&A).
An interview with a virus-hunter. There are probably many zoonotic diseases that we don’t know about. I interviewed Erin J. Staples, whose job is to find them.(Q&A).
GEN - Medium
Is Nuclear Energy the ‘Real Green New Deal’? The Trump administration may back nuclear, but it still faces an uphill battle in the U.S.
Ohio Just Granted Lake Erie the Same Rights as a Human. It’s the latest legal attempt to protect the beloved lake from environmental catastrophe.
Pacific Standard
El Mar Se Comió Todo: On the Shrinking of Cuba. Visiting climate refugees in a disappearing Cuba. Pacific Standard online.
WIRED
Oregon is Burning Trees in Order to Save Them. Sudden oak death, rampant in California, is spreading to the north, leaving the Forest Service with a tough option: Send them up in smoke. For WIRED.com.
The Search for a Covid-19 Research Animal Model. In a lab test, two monkeys died from the novel coronavirus. A species that reacts to the virus as humans do may help us find new treatments, but it's a weighty task. For WIRED.com.
The Björn Ultimatum. One Swede will kill cash forever—unless his foe saves it from extinction. Two men's fight over the future of currency in Sweden (and the world). For WIRED magazine.
Colloidal Silver Turns You Blue--But Can It Save Your Life? Celebrities ranging from Gwyneth Paltrow to Infowar's Alex Jones swear by colloidal silver as a germ-fighting miracle cure. But the medical community says there's no evidence for these benefits, and warns about a pretty weird side effect. Why do so many people continue to use it? For WIRED.com.
The Dangers of Keeping Women out of Tech. Computer science is one of the few STEM fields in which the number of women has been dropping. But as the president of Harvey Mudd College, Maria Klawe has been able to boost the proportion of women in its CS program to an impressive 40 percent. A Q&A with Klawe for WIRED.
Scientist Screwed Up? Send 'Em to Researcher Rehab. Jim DuBois is offering fallen scientists redemption--but not everyone thinks they deserve a second chance. For WIRED.com.
The Search for a Covid-19 Research Animal Model. In a lab test, two monkeys died from the novel coronavirus. A species that reacts to the virus as humans do may help us find new treatments, but it's a weighty task.
Inside Climate News
In the Pacific, Global Warming Disrupted The Ecological Dance of Urchins, Sea Stars And Kelp. When ocean heat waves and a sea star disease devastated kelp forests, sea otters came to the rescue.
With a Warming Climate, Coastal Fog Around the World Is Declining. In California, dissipating “June gloom” could bring a dismal future for some of the state’s iconic tree species.
FiveThirtyEight
We Could Probably Predict Zika Outbreaks If Humans Weren’t So Unpredictable. Climate-based models do a pretty good job, but they can’t account for people.
Forbes
3D Map Of Ocean Floor Uncovers Strange Surprise. Australian scientists uncovered a big surprise on the ocean floor just outside the Great Barrier Reef
'Aquatic Cocaine' Driving Tiny Porpoise To Extinction
A tiny, adorable marine mammal could face extinction because of the black market for a strange substance.
In The Midst Of Drought, California Farmers Used More Water For Almonds
New research using satellite images reveals impact of almond boom on land and water use in California.
Even Deep Sea Organisms Are Eating Plastic Trash
Scientists have found the first evidence that even deep sea organisms are ingesting micro plastics.
KQED San Francisco
Two-hundred Years of Cuban Coral Arrives in Santa Cruz. UC Santa Cruz researchers study a 48-inch coral core from Cuba. It contains historical information that could help solve a mystery: Why are Cuban coral reefs so healthy and will they be able to stay that way as the climate changes?
Robots Are Now Handling Pills. Will Pharmacists Be Liberated or Out of Work? One of the most important things a pharmacist does after five or six years of training is make sure you get the correct number of pills in the correct dosage. Now, it seems, robots are better at doing that than people. Even trained pharmacist people.
Your Smartphone as Dermatologist: Fast, Cheap…and Often Wrong. Early detection is vital to surviving melanoma, but long wait times and high co-pays can keep patients from getting to the dermatologist. New smartphone cancer-detection apps claim to solve this problem. Do they work? (Spoiler: not really). KQED San Francisco.