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Alison Young

Washington, D.C.

Contributor and Editor at Freelance

Investigative reporter/editor + author of Pandora’s Gamble. [email protected]

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  • 1 month ago | inaturalist.org | Alison Young

    Last month, we shared a new tool to help people learn about iNaturalist: the Introduction to iNaturalist slideshow. We also included a short survey asking what other resources you'd like us to make.

  • 1 month ago | houstonlanding.org | Alison Young

    In the five years before a sports utility vehicle struck Energy Transfer’s pipeline in Deer Park and caused a massive explosion and fire, pipelines operated by the company and its affiliates had been damaged by vehicle collisions at least five times. That’s what Houston Landing found in a two-part investigation published in December that revealed the Deer Park crash was part of a wider national safety issue that has involved at least 36 pipeline collisions across the United States since 2019.

  • 2 months ago | thetrek.co | Alison Young

    The Xero Shoes D-Trail Trail-to-Town Sandal is a versatile, minimalist sandal that works well in camp and on the trail. Despite being lightweight and flexible, these barefoot-design sandals offer enough traction to allow you to consider trading out your hiking shoes.

  • 2 months ago | houstonlanding.org | Alison Young

    Vaccination is the best way to protect against becoming infected with measles, health officials say, and there are many places in the Houston area where the shots are available. “This vaccine has been used for decades. We’ve found it to be very, very safe. It is very, very effective,” said Dr. David Persse, the City of Houston’s chief medical officer.

  • 2 months ago | houstonlanding.org | Alison Young

    As Texas battles against its largest measles outbreak in decades, immunization data obtained by Houston Landing shows that more than 1,000 kindergarten and seventh grade students in the Houston ISD either had vaccination exemptions or lacked proof they were fully immunized against the highly contagious virus.

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Alison Young
Alison Young @alisonannyoung
4 Jun 25

Feds: Chinese citizens charged with smuggling harmful fungus for research at U of Michigan Officers found a “piece of filter paper with a series of circles drawn on it, and four clear plastic baggies with small clumps of reddish plant material inside.” https://t.co/LbdCCE3hzn

Alison Young
Alison Young @alisonannyoung
3 Jun 25

Editorial: SC can’t keep pretending the problems at Monkey Island aren’t our problems. Notes 🐒s “killed by carbon monoxide poisoning because their keepers aren’t attentive & [fed govt] refuses to impose meaningful sanctions” to deter irresponsibility https://t.co/0xFFFeIORX

Alison Young
Alison Young @alisonannyoung
27 May 25

RT @charlesornstein: A Harvard scientist built a database of 2,100 NIH grant terminations. Then his own funding was cut https://t.co/1eBqW1…