Alisa Tang

Oct 23, 2024 | washingtonpost.com | Alisa Tang

It was a beautiful early-morning walk, yet so sad, too. Stephanie Dalke and May Kipnis, dressed in warm layers, met before dawn Saturday outside Union Station for a five-mile trek around the modern reflective-glass buildings of downtown D.C. The buildings were lit up. One housed a soothing, attractive bamboo grove in its atrium.

Oct 15, 2024 | spokesman.com | Alisa Tang

Outside the National Zoo’s Bird House, small white cotton bags hung on hooks, each holding a bird that ornithologist Brian Evans and his team had netted that Saturday morning. Now and then, they squirmed nervously, their feathers rustling as a rapt audience of birders waited. Evans gently lifted one of the bags off its hook and put his hand inside. “So you guys are going to be pretty excited about this.

Oct 14, 2024 | washingtonpost.com | Alisa Tang

Brian Evans, an ornithologist at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute, puts identifying bands on a house sparrow during a demonstration Saturday. (Astrid Riecken for The Washington Post)By Alisa TangOctober 15, 2024 at 6:00 a.m. EDTOutside the National Zoo’s Bird House, small white cotton bags hung on hooks, each holding a bird that ornithologist Brian Evans and his team had netted that Saturday morning.

Jan 6, 2024 | newsbreak.com | Alisa Tang

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Jan 6, 2024 | washingtonpost.com | Alisa Tang

CommentSaveIn the summer of 2013, Rebekah Taylor’s 4-year-old son Jack went on a camping trip with his grandfather in Rocky Gap State Park in western Maryland and came home with a bug bite on his ankle. A day or two later, he got a fever and felt sluggish. It could have been a mosquito bite, Taylor thought. His pediatrician thought it was from a spider. About a week after that, Jack came off the field at soccer camp and complained his knees hurt and he felt tired.