Breanna Draxler
Science and Environment Journalist at Freelance
Deputy Editor at YES! Magazine
Environmental Journalist. Currently: Deputy Editor @YesMagazine Formerly: @PopSci @DiscoverMag @biographic @Grist
Articles
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1 week ago |
yesmagazine.org | Breanna Draxler |Kala Hunter
At the northern tip of Wisconsin, a river meanders northward to the world’s second-largest freshwater lake. As it flows, the river gives life to walleye as well as wolves and medicinal plants. Where the waters reach Lake Superior, abundant—but vulnerable—wild rice grows. This land and this river have been home to the Mashkiigong-ziibiing and their ancestors, the Chippewa, Ojibwe, and Anishinabe, for more than 500 years.
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1 month ago |
yesmagazine.org | Breanna Draxler |Amal Ahmed
Why you can trust us Every summer in Portland, Oregon, thousands of people participate in the city’s famous World Naked Bike Ride. In the two decades since its launch, the event has become something of a tourist attraction, and one of the city’s many quirks that locals brag about.
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2 months ago |
yesmagazine.org | Breanna Draxler |Serene J. Khader
On that hazy June day in 2022 when the Supreme Court ruled that there was no constitutional right to abortion, one thing was clear: This had been a long time coming. Feminists needed to roll up our sleeves. We needed a long-term plan. And we couldn’t just assume that what we had been doing up to this point was working. The court’s decision in Dobbs v. Jackson may have been designed to send pregnant people back to the 1950s, but the oral arguments surfaced an idea that could only be at home today.
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Dec 4, 2024 |
yesmagazine.org | Breanna Draxler
Preity Gurung is a member of the Tamang people of the Himalaya. The climate effects here are deeply felt: After a long period of drought, more than 200 people in Kathmandu were killed by floods in October 2024. “The situation in the mountains, where our community lives, is even worse,” she says. More floods as well as long periods of drought have made the perennial water sources in the upper mountains run dry.
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Oct 21, 2024 |
yesmagazine.org | Breanna Draxler
Why you can trust us “First, my brother passed away and then my mother,” says Charles Jones, sitting on a blue metal folding chair in Philadelphia’s Breaking Bread Community Shelter. “I needed somebody to take care of. And I needed somebody to take care of me.”Jones pauses and clears his throat, wiping his eyes. “I get emotional about it,” he says quietly, looking down at the black Labrador retriever sleeping at his feet. “Midnight has done so much for me.
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