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 [...]
In an award-winning story, Roberta Kwok recounted the story of an asteroid from the time it was spotted until the meteorites hit the Earth. This event represents the first time that astronomers were able to track such a trajectory in real time. Kwok’s remarkably detailed narrative won the American Geophysical Union’s Walter Sullivan Award for [...]
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