Meet SEJ member Rachel Nuwer! Rachel is an award-winning freelance journalist who regularly writes about conservation, ecology and wildlife trade for the New York Times, National Geographic, Scientific American and more. Her multi-award-winning first book, "Poached: Inside the Dark World of Wildlife Trafficking," was published in September 2018 with Da Capo Press.
"Spend some time around the shell-shocked journalists at the Tribune these days, and you’ll hear the same question over and over: How did it come to this?"
"A new forecast shows a near-tripling of global storage capacity in 2021 compared to 2020, which also was a record year."
"Dozens of Indigenous leaders held a sit-in Thursday at the Interior Department in Washington, D.C., in an effort to stop the extractive fossil fuel industries."
"Dwindling populations of the American bumblebee and their complete disappearance from eight states has led to a call for the bee to be placed under the Endangered Species Act before they face extinction."
"The EPA announced the creation of two internal scientific advisory panels after whistleblower accounts of internal corruption."
"House Democrats began Thursday making the case for stricter regulation of thousands of abandoned wells, platforms and pipelines off the U.S. coasts following one of the biggest off-shore spills in California in nearly 30 years."
"Public health officials have told residents of Canada’s northernmost capital not to use tap water for drinking and cooking because of suspected fuel contamination in the city’s water supply."
"A coalition of federal agencies on Thursday warned that hackers are targeting the water and wastewater treatment sectors, strongly recommending that organizations take steps to protect themselves."
