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Nautilus

Bob Grant is the deputy editor at Nautilus.

Bob Grant

Environment

Ice Theft in Antarctica

Jude Coleman is an Oregon-based, freelance science writer who covers topics both serious and curious. Her words have appeared in outlets such as The New York Times, Nature, National Geographic, Scientific American, and others.

Jude Coleman

Ghost Forests Are Growing

Avery Schuyler Nunn is a California-based science storyteller. She has contributed words and photographs to National Geographic, Smithsonian Magazine, Popular Science, Grist, Whalebone Magazine, and The Inertia, among other publications.

Avery Schuyler Nunn

A New Story for Malta

Molly Glick is the newsletter editor of Nautilus.

Molly Glick

Asking Trees to Solve a Roman Conspiracy

Syris Valentine is an essayist and freelance journalist with a focus on climate and social justice. Outside of his newsletter &#8220;Just Progress,&#8221; his work has appeared in The Atlantic, Scientific American, Grist, and elsewhere.

Syris Valentine

As Mountains Rise, Biodiversity Blooms

Chris Cosma is a pollination ecologist at the Conservation Biology Institute.

Chris Cosma

The Secret Lives of Moths

Katharine Gammon is a freelance science writer based in Santa Monica, California, who writes about environment, science, and parenting. You can find her on X (formerly known as Twitter) @kategammon.

Katharine Gammon

When Earth Was a Pale Green Dot

Rohini Subrahmanyam is a biologist turned science journalist. She loves writing about interesting creatures on our planet. Subrahmanyam received a Ph.D. from the National Center for Biological Sciences at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research in India. Follow her on X (formerly Twitter) <a href="https://twitter.com/rohsubb">@rohsubb</a> and on <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/rohini-subrahmanyam-261596216/">LinkedIn</a>, and see her portfolio <a href="https://muckrack.com/rohini-subrahmanyam-1/portfolio/list">here</a>.

Rohini Subrahmanyam

Sea Slug, Climate Change Warrior

CD Davidson-Hiers is a Florida journalist and essayist.

CD Davidson-Hiers

March of the Mangroves

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

The Deadly Story of a Life-Giving Element

Neil Shubin is an evolutionary biologist whose team discovered Tiktaalik roseae, the iconic fossil fish that was among the first to walk on land. His search for fossils has led him to all seven continents including over three decades in the Arctic and Antarctica. An elected member of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences, he is a professor at The University of Chicago and author most recently of Ends Of The Earth: Journeys to Polar Regions in Search of Life, the Cosmos, and our Future.

Neil Shubin

General

The Extraordinary, Imperiled Science at the End of the Earth

Theresa Crimmins is an associate professor in the School of Natural Resources and the Environment at the University of Arizona and the director of the USA National Phenology Network. She is the author of <a href="https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262551052/phenology/">Phenology</a>, from which this article is adapted.