Freelancer Hillary Rosner traveled to a Colorado River reservoir to meet scientists bent on rescuing an unassuming fish, the razorback sucker. The resulting story, which won the 2010 AAAS Kavli Science Journalism Award in the Small Newspaper category, raised tough questions about the rationale for saving endangered species. [One Tough Sucker appeared in High Country [...]
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Hillary Rosner makes readers care about saving an unassuming endangered fish
Posted by Roberta Kwok on February 22nd, 2011
Carl Zimmer ponders unseen ecosystems teeming within us
Posted by Siri Carpenter on February 10th, 2011
If ever you feel alone in the universe, perhaps you can take comfort in the knowledge that in fact, you are never without the company of the thousands of microbial species residing in your body’s every crevice. Collectively, they operate like an invisible organ, and they are essential to our health. As Carl Zimmer masterfully [...]
Podcast: Play in new window
Posted in Behind-the-Story Interviews 
Tags: Carpenter, Medicine, Notes, NYTimes, Writer Interview, Zimmer 
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