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Nautilus

Diana Kwon is a Berlin-based science journalist who covers health and the life sciences. Her work has appeared in Scientific American, Nature, and The Scientist, among other publications.

Diana Kwon

Environment

Extreme Heat Will Change You

Peter Brannen is an award-winning science journalist and contributing writer at the Atlantic. His work has also appeared in The New York Times, the Washington Post, The New Yorker, Wired, and the Guardian, among other publications. His first book, The Ends of the World, was published in 2017. Peter was a 2024 visiting scholar at the Kluge Center at the Library of Congress, and is an affiliate at the Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research at the University of Colorado-Boulder.

Peter Brannen

When Our World Was a Wasteland

John Steele is the publisher and editorial director of Nautilus.

John Steele

It’s a Plastic World, After All

A. Kendra Greene is the author and illustrator of No Less Strange or Wonderful: Essays in Curiosity and The Museum of Whales You Will Never See. A writer and book artist, her work is also published in Atlas Obscura, The Guardian, Orion, and The Wall Street Journal. It has come into being with fellowships from Fulbright, MacDowell, Dobie Paisano, UNC special collections, Library Innovation Lab at Harvard, and The American Library in Paris.

A. Kendra Greene

With Regard to the Invisible

Katherine Harmon Courage is the executive editor at Nautilus.

Katherine Harmon Courage

We’re All Connected

Kristen French is an associate editor at Nautilus. She has worked in science journalism since 2013, reporting and writing features and news for publications such as Wired, Backchannel, The Verge, and New York Magazine. She has a masters degree in science journalism from Columbia University.

Kristen French

Stalagmites Offer Clues to Maya Mystery

Lois Parshley is an award-winning investigative journalist. Follow her work at <a href="https://loisparshley.com/">loisparshley.com</a>.

Lois Parshley

They Came for Climate Science. Then the Storms Came.

Bob Grant is the deputy editor at Nautilus.

Bob Grant

Is Solving the Plastic Problem a Moral Issue?

Can Humanity Stem the Plastic Tide?

Mark DeGraff is a science journalist who specializes in ecology and biodiversity. His work has appeared in Mongabay, Eos, Mountain Journal, and many other outlets.

Mark Degraff

Orchids Thrive Among the Dead

Molly Glick is the newsletter editor of Nautilus.

Molly Glick

Our Gut Feeling About Forests

Sofia Quaglia is a freelance journalist writing about all things science and nature and how we talk about them. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, BBC, National Geographic, The Guardian, New Scientist, and more. She’s on a mission to visit the entire planet by spending each month in a different country, so she’s been living on the road since 2021. You can find her on X (formerly known as Twitter) at <a href="https://twitter.com/sofiquaglia">@sofiquaglia</a>.