Freelance writer and editor
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Nature Outlook: Kidney cancer
Kidney cancer has long flown under the radar despite being…
Hawaiian crows can use sticks as tools but are nearly extinct
It’s certainly something to crow about. New Caledonian crows are…
A ray of hope amid antibiotic gloom
As antibiotic resistance continues to threaten the treatment of various…
The surprising link between the tapirs of Costa Rica and climate change
New studies suggest that protecting tapirs and other large seed-eating…
Trump’s border-wall pledge threatens delicate desert ecosystems
Ecologists fear plan to seal off the United States from…
Warming seas linked to rise in cholera bacteria in Europe and US
There’s nothing like swimming in cold water. Warming oceans caused…
Publications
- Aperio (1)
- Arctic Deeply (3)
- Audubon Magazine (1)
- bioGraphic (1)
- Biopharma Dealmakers (1)
- BMJ (4)
- Canadian Geographic (14)
- Canadian Medical Association Journal (61)
- Canadian Science Writers' Association (1)
- CHCO/The Courier (14)
- Chemistry World (11)
- CICNews (16)
- Ensia (1)
- FACETS (1)
- Great Lakes Now (14)
- Hakai (54)
- Inside Science (52)
- Ivy Asks (4)
- Live Science (4)
- Materials Today (6)
- Medscape (30)
- Motherboard (2)
- Nature (107)
- Nature Biotechnology (5)
- Nature Index (5)
- Nature Medicine (4)
- Nature Reviews Drug Discovery (1)
- New Scientist (49)
- Research Canada (2)
- Research Fortnight (6)
- SciDev.Net (5)
- Science (21)
- Science Borealis (2)
- Science.ca (1)
- Scientific American (1)
- The Lancet (19)
- The Lancet Child & Adolescent Health (1)
- The Lancet Rheumatology (4)
- The Narwhal (2)
- The Pharmaceutical Journal (6)
- The Tyee (83)
- University Affairs (28)
- Water Canada (1)
- WebMD (1)
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