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Erica Cirino

United States
Covers:  plastic pollution, environmental justice, toxics and chemicals, climate, human health, wildlife health and diseases, wildlife and nature conservation, environmental science

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Erica Cirino’s Biography

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Erica Cirino is a freelance science writer, author, and artist exploring the intersection of the human and nonhuman worlds.

Erica is best known for her widely published photojournalistic works that cut through plastic industry misinformation and injustice to deliver the often shocking and difficult truths about this most ubiquitous and insidious material. This includes her award-winning book, Thicker Than Water: The Quest for Solutions to the Plastic Crisis (Island Press, 2021), in which she do…

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Bird Flu Outbreaks: When Will We Learn Our Lesson?

Bird Flu Outbreaks: When Will We Learn Our Lesson?

Experts say previous outbreaks should have taught us how to avoid new ones, like the one that’s killing milli…

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It's Time for a Global Treaty on Plastics

It's Time for a Global Treaty on Plastics

The United Nations has an opportunity to address plastic pollution on an international level. Will it finally…

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'We're Taking Action Into Our Own Hands' - A Community Stands Against a Landfill

'We're Taking Action Into Our Own Hands' - A Community Stands Against a Landfill

Long Island residents and their allies seek environmental justice after decades of pollution.

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Plastic Pollution: Could We Have Solved the Problem Nearly 50 Years Ago?

Plastic Pollution: Could We Have Solved the Problem Nearly 50 Years Ago?

What if we’d listened to the researchers who first warned us about plastic pollution in the 1970s?

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Killing as a Government Service

Killing as a Government Service

The USDA’s Wildlife Services program slaughters millions of wild animals every year — including endangered sp…

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You're Likely Inhaling 11 Tiny Bits of Plastic Per Hour

You're Likely Inhaling 11 Tiny Bits of Plastic Per Hour

A new study suggests that our lungs are under siege in our own homes.

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Awards

Nautilus Book Award

2022 - Ecology & Environment

One of the goals of Nautilus Book Awards is to energize the interconnections between books, authors, publishers, and readers, and to be responsive to the world through words.

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