Sarah DeWeerdt

Sarah DeWeerdt is a Seattle-based freelance science journalist specializing in biology, medicine, and the environment. In addition to Anthropocene, her work has appeared in Nature, Newsweek, Nautilus, Spectrum, and many other publications. Find her on Twitter at @DeWeerdt_Sarah.

Posts:

• People have more trouble identifying climate falsehoods than truths
• What if the standard way of planning climate mitigation is part of the problem?
• When adding green space reduces urban heat—and when it doesn’t
• How do climate experts think about geoengineering? They get personal.
• Renewable power pays for itself with better health
• How climate change could reshape religious practice
• Climate change is global—but climate journalism isn’t
• While we debate geoengineering the ocean, it seems we’re already doing it
• What makes a carbon tax seem more (or less) fair?
• Get ready for new forms of extreme weather: hurricanes plus heat waves
• Does an island lifestyle confer climate tolerance—if you’re a plant?