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Freelance science & nature writer. Weekly columnist, @TheCorvAdvocate. He/him Recent words in Scientific American, The Atlantic, Hakai, Civil Eats, JSTOR.

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Freelance science and nature writer. Weekly columnist, Corvallis Advocate. Recent bylines in The Washington Post, Scientific American, Hakai Magazine, JSTOR Daily, etc.

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Frontier myth vilified the California grizzly. Science tells a new story.

Frontier myth vilified the California grizzly. Science tells a new story.

"Pretty much everything that I thought I knew about these animals turned out to be wrong," one scientist said…

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Vultures Prevent Tens of Millions of Metric Tons of Carbon Emissions Each Year

Vultures Prevent Tens of Millions of Metric Tons of Carbon Emissions Each Year

Vultures are hard birds for humans to love. They are an obligate scavenger, meaning they get all their food f…

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For Melon Farmers, Insects' Benefits May Outweigh Their Costs

For Melon Farmers, Insects' Benefits May Outweigh Their Costs

A new study focused on watermelons has wider implications for how farmers can strike a balance between predat…

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Neither Plants nor Animals, These Ocean Organisms Protect Their Ecosystems against Heat Waves

Neither Plants nor Animals, These Ocean Organisms Protect Their Ecosystems against Heat Waves

Mixotrophs, which have characteristics of both animals and plants, could help blunt the effects of marine hea…

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Scientists Use Sound to Attract Baby Oysters Back to the Reef

Scientists Use Sound to Attract Baby Oysters Back to the Reef

It's been a tough couple of centuries to be an oyster. But acoustics may provide a new way to bolster restora…

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130-Year-Old Menus Show How Climate Change Is Already Affecting What We Eat | Hakai Magazine

130-Year-Old Menus Show How Climate Change Is Already Affecting What We Eat | Hakai Magazine

By studying the so-called mean temperature of restaurant seafood, scientists have shown how the species that …

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Tree-killing beetles are in Portland. Is Washington next? - Columbia Insight

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After destroying millions of trees in the Midwest and East Coast, the emerald ash borer appears poised to cross the Columbia River By Ian Rose. October 9, 2025. In summer 2022, forest managers in Oregon got the news they'd been dreading for years. Emerald ash borers, an invasive wood-boring beetle from Asia responsible for the death and decline of tens of millions of ash trees in North America, had been found in Forest Grove, just west of Portland. This year, on Sept.
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The Life, Loss and Lore of the Sea Mink

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By Ian Rose
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It might be among the first mammals to go extinct in North America after colonization. But can scientists prove it was even a distinct species? Key takeaways: Sea mink In the 19th century, Indigenous people and European traders recognized two types of mink—land mink and larger sea mink. While some experts today question whether the two types of mink were different species, evidence is accumulating that they were. If Manly Hardy knew one thing, it was mink.
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Engineers Are Racing to Harness the Dazzling Magic of Feathers. They Haven't Solved the Mystery Just Yet

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By Ian Rose
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The natural marvels, which do everything from enabling acrobatic flight to insulating against Antarctic cold, continue to inspire new designs and technologies At the end of just about every commercial airliner’s wings is an important piece of technology that can be easy to miss. The small upturned tips of each wing are called winglets, and although they weren’t added to the big airliners until the late 1980s, they were invented more than a century earlier.
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