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Aptos, Moab
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Covers:  We're all COVID-19 reporters now.
Doesn't Cover: No physics for me, and space capabilities are limited. Always keen to take on new topics though.
✨Freelance Science Journalist & Editor✨| @Nature, @NewsfromScience, @TheScientistLLC, @NatGeo, @KUER, et al. 📝 | Love a good sea beast 🦀🐙🐚 | She/Her 🏳️‍🌈

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Currently interning at the life sciences magazine The Scientist until Oct. 2020. I enjoy the opportunity to write about a lot of things, but my strengths are marine science, ecology, environment, and genomics/genetics. My work has been published by Science, The Scientist, KQED, Deep Look, Inside Science, Eos, Mongabay, The San Jose Mercury News, The Monterey Herald, and others. You can see more of my clips and multimedia, at www.amandaheidt.com.

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Bulldozers are destroying Big Bend National Park. Conservationists are furious.

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Heavy construction equipment has appeared inside Big Bend National Park in southern Texas as contractors for Customs and Border Protection begin a land assessment. The work is a precursor to a massive border security project that opponents say will profoundly reshape the character of one of the state's most pristine landscapes. As onlookers stood by, bulldozers crashed through native cottonwoods and willows growing alongside the Rio Grande, scattering birds and pig-like javelinas.
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Valley of the Gods among landmarks cut from beloved Utah national monuments

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To visit Valley of the Gods in Bears Ears National Monument is to come into contact with the sublime. The sweeping, crenellated towers of Cedar Mesa sandstone, formed from sediment deposited in Utah more than 250 million years ago, rival any gothic or baroque church front, and their presence - jutting from the valley floor, casting looming shadows over the landscape - can only be described using words like reverence. Awe. Sanctuary.
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Lake Mead reveals mountaintops hidden for decades as lake recedes

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Lake Mead is inches away from setting a grim new milestone. Amid a megadrought and ongoing struggles over how to allocate the Colorado River's dwindling water supply, the lake's surface now sits at just 1,040.84 feet above sea level. That's less than four inches away from a low-water record first set in July 2022.
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Have you ever used a typewriter?

Obvs

What's the funniest news-related #hashtag you've seen?

Ummm, can we talk about the C. elegans moment?

Who do you wish followed you?

Latif Nasser. His work is truly inspiring and I love how clear his delight is when he speaks about science.