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“Marris is a whip-smart writer . . . already being compared to the greatest environmental writers and thinkers of the past century, Rachel Carson and Aldo Leopold.”
—San Francisco Chronicle
My work appears in the New York Times, Nature, the Atlantic, National Geographic, and the Atavist, among other outlets. I specialize in essays, reviews, opinion, and fully reported longform features. I have a degree in Science Writing from Johns Hopkins University.
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Most Recent Stories
We’ve been telling one another to “touch grass” for years now, all while downloading app- and website-blocking software and lockable phone safes to try to wean ourselves off constant internet use. Maybe the AI-slop era will actually help us log off. Read more…
Sadie has spent years hiding her problem from her family. In her day job, she works as a purchasing agent for a scientific firm, which requires placing large orders for everything from chemical reagents to US$8-million worth of glass vials. But in her personal time, Sadie goes on buying sprees for herself. Read more…
A rare prairie ecosystem shaped by humans in Washington State exemplifies a shift in how conservationists envision our relationship with the natural world.
Story Archive
- The Debate That American Conservationists Should Be Having
- Shade Will Make or Break American Cities
- Nature Doesn’t Care Where a Species Is From
- Conservation Tends to Ignore the Most Common Type of Life
- America Is Missing Out on the Biggest EV Boom of All
- You Should Build a Frog Pond
- Bring on the Boring EVs
- 1.5 Degrees Was Never the End of the World
- When Does the Clean-Energy Infinity Loop Start?
- People Deserve to Know Their Houses Are Going to Burn
- The Utility of White-Hot Rage
- K-pop Fans Have a New Nemesis
- We’re Heading Straight for a Demi-Armageddon
- The Nature You See in Documentaries Is Beautiful and False
- Inevitable Planetary Doom Has Been Exaggerated
- The West Has Never Felt So Small
- Who built Europe’s first cities? Clues about the urban revolution emerge
- The complex life of the oil industry veteran who proposed the Gaia hypothesis
- Barbie and body image: a scholar’s take on the research — and the blockbuster film
- ‘Truly historic’: How science helped kids win a landmark climate trial
- Hawaii wildfires: did scientists expect Maui to burn?
- Stressed plants ‘cry’ — and some animals can probably hear them
- Duck! Octopuses caught on camera throwing things at each other
- Parasite gives wolves what it takes to be pack leaders
- Migration is normal, accept it
- On the 50th Earth Day, take collective action for the planet
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