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Reporter @nbcnews. Covering science and climate. [email protected] / DM for Signal/ cell. Previously @seattletimes.
Seattle, WA
Joined November 2008
RT @nsj: What’s it like inside the National Weather Service right now? My colleagues @evanbush and @ChaseCainNBC got a rare look inside one….
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A crucial National Weather Service office, battered by cuts, is trying to put on a brave face as tornado season peaks.
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RT @NBCNews: The Trump administration’s slowdown in science funding has left U.S.-based scientists and researchers scrambling to find homes….
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Top scientists are cutting staff at their labs. Postdocs are leaving the country. Here's how the Trump cuts are playing out at the University of Washington.
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Funding for the University of Washington’s Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center’s expires at month’s end, amid an unprecedented stall in federal research funding. Patient care, long-term studies and 4,000 brains donated for research hang in the balance.
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A pause to NIH funding has researchers scrambling for contingency plans at the University of Washington’s Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center. The center’s brain bank is preserving more than 4,000...
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RT @MauraBarrettNBC: There hasn’t been a worse time to be a coral in recent history. In April, NOAA declared the world’s fourth mass bleach….
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RT @bykenarmstrong: 10 years ago today, I was working a weekend shift @seattletimes when word came in of a landslide near a small town name….
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RT @lewiskamb: “You ever feel helpless, totally helpless? We’re throwing everything we have, and it’s continuing to beat us down.”. Master….
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As firefighters raced to hold back wind-whipped flames, they faced near-death escapes, blinding smoke, car-melting heat — and a battle they couldn’t win.
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RT @lewiskamb: NEW After Lahaina barely averted catastrophe from wildfires in 2018, Maui residents raised concerns about lack of warning si….
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After fires in 2018, residents raised concerns about clogged evacuation routes, power line risks and failures to sound emergency sirens. “Everything we told them was completely, 100 percent ignored,”...
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The story of two Maui survivors and the fire station that never was
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Joseph Pluta and Rick Nava said a 2018 brush with disaster served as a wake-up call to the devastation possible from increasingly destructive wildfires. But money for a new station was hard to come...
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RT @JasonAbbruzzese: Are you a scientist who has been following the superconductor news/efforts to replicate? If so, I want to talk! DM are….
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Terrible news. Craig's writing is sharp and immersive. And I won't forget how accessible and kind he was when I was in my early 20s and bumbling around the Seattle Times. What a loss for Nat Geo.
My new National Geographic just arrived, which includes my latest feature—my 16th, and my last as a senior writer. NatGeo is laying off all of its staff writers. I’ve been so lucky. I got to work w/incredible journalists and tell important, global stories. It’s been an honor.
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Three of Mount Rainier's glaciers have melted away – yet another sign of mountain ice's rapid, worldwide decline. The decline of Rainier's glaciers is accelerating.
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Glaciers around the world are on a path of prolonged decline, a trend driven by the human use of fossil fuels and the accumulation of heat-trapping gases in the atmosphere.
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RT @JasonAbbruzzese: Kevin Collier has remained steadfast on what is among the most widespread and destructive issues facing local institut….
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RT @lawrencehurley: BREAKING: Supreme Court rules in favor of Idaho landowners, puts new limits on the scope of Clean Water Act jurisdictio….
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Idaho couple Mike and Chantell Sackett have fought for years with the federal government over whether land they own includes a federally protected wetland.
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Important work from @BenjaminGoggin.
NEW: A 13-year-old was groomed publicly on Twitter by an adult for months. Despite the parents' efforts to intervene, Twitter and police failed to prevent a tragedy. The boy was abducted, taken across state lines, and repeatedly sexually assaulted.
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Quite the story here.
NEW For nearly 20 years, the murders of women & girls haunted the Northwest until DNA breakthroughs led to Gary Ridgway's arrest. But the long-told narrative that it took advances in science to catch the Green River Killer is false . My story, via @NBCNews
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RT @dandeluce: The number of confirmed Chinese spy balloon flights over the United States will likely go up as analysts review past sightin….
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