Craig Welch

Seattle

Writer and Communications Consultant at Freelance

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Articles

‘Forever chemical’ polluters land hefty contracts to meet electric vehicle battery demand

Jul 10, 2024 | theexamination.org | Craig Welch |Jana Cholakovska |Pooja Sarkar |Alec Gitelman |Clare Fieseler |Emilie Rosso

This investigation was reported in collaboration with The Post and Courier, Columbia Journalism Investigations and RTBF, and co-published in partnership with Mother Jones. Propulsion without the need for petroleum: That’s the lithium-ion battery’s promise. Backed by government incentives across the globe, lithium-ion batteries are hailed as key to a green transportation revolution — and for good reason. They cut planet-warming emissions. They promote independence from fossil fuels.
Rising Seas Are Wiping Out Some Older Americans’ Futures

May 28, 2024 | aarp.org | Craig Welch

By Craig Welch Photographs by Jesse Rieser Published May 28, 2024 / Updated October 2, 2024 En español Listen to this article Part I: A Retirement Nightmare Martha Shaw was ready. As forecasters in September 2022 warned of a storm bearing down on Florida’s Gulf Coast, she grabbed a blanket and her cane, stuffed a suitcase with clothes and loaded a kennel for her toy poodle, Andre, into her silver SUV. Shaw, who had just turned 84, had been through this before.
Surprise! Meet the Killer Whales You Thought You Knew

Apr 8, 2024 | thetyee.ca | Craig Welch

[Editor’s note: This article was originally published by Hakai Magazine. Read the original story on their website.]John Ford still recalls the first time he heard them. He’d been puttering around the Deserters Group archipelago, a smattering of spruce- and cedar-choked islands in Queen Charlotte Strait, between Vancouver Island and mainland British Columbia.
The fascinating truth about killer whales

Apr 3, 2024 | popsci.com | Craig Welch

This article was originally featured on Hakai Magazine, an online publication about science and society in coastal ecosystems. Read more stories like this at hakaimagazine.com. John Ford still recalls the first time he heard them. He’d been puttering around the Deserters Group archipelago, a smattering of spruce- and cedar-choked islands in Queen Charlotte Strait, between Vancouver Island and mainland British Columbia. He was piloting a small skiff and trailing a squad of six killer whales.
Killer Whales Might Actually Be Three Species

Mar 30, 2024 | newsbreak.com | Craig Welch

John Ford still recalls the first time he heard them. He’d been puttering around the Deserters Group archipelago, a smattering of spruce- and cedar-choked islands in Queen Charlotte Strait, between Vancouver Island and mainland British Columbia. He was piloting a small skiff and trailing a squad of six killer whales. Ford, then a graduate student, had been enamored of cetacean sounds since listening to belugas chirp while he worked part-time at the Vancouver Aquarium as a teenager.
Everything You Know About Killer Whales Is Wrong

Mar 30, 2024 | theatlantic.com | Craig Welch

This article was originally published in Hakai Magazine. John Ford still recalls the first time he heard them. He’d been puttering around the Deserters Group archipelago, a smattering of spruce- and cedar-choked islands in Queen Charlotte Strait, between Vancouver Island and mainland British Columbia. He was piloting a small skiff and trailing a squad of six killer whales.
Meet the Killer Whales You Thought You Knew | Hakai Magazine

Mar 26, 2024 | hakaimagazine.com | Craig Welch

John Ford still recalls the first time he heard them. He’d been puttering around the Deserters Group archipelago, a smattering of spruce- and cedar-choked islands in Queen Charlotte Strait, between Vancouver Island and mainland British Columbia. He was piloting a small skiff and trailing a squad of six killer whales. Ford, then a graduate student, had been enamored with cetacean sounds since listening to belugas chirp while he worked part-time at the Vancouver Aquarium as a teenager.
The U.S. is working on a last-ditch effort to resurrect its grizzly bears

Apr 6, 2023 | nationalgeographic.com | Craig Welch

Please be respectful of copyright. Unauthorized use is prohibited. AnimalsA half-century after the last known grizzly was killed in the Pacific Northwest, the government has a plan to bring these animals back to an ecosystem that needs them. For 27 years, experts have scoured the alpine meadows and granite ridgelines of Washington State’s North Cascades, looking for enormous stragglers.
How sharks equipped with cameras solved an aquatic mystery

Mar 21, 2023 | nationalgeographic.co.uk | Craig Welch

Seagrasses, the pale green flowering plants that form meadows on the ocean floor, are home to all manner of life: turtles, fish, squid, seahorses, anemones, crab, dugongs. Yet for vast stretches of the marine world we still don’t know how much there is—and not just around far-flung atolls, but even along the coasts of some of the best-mapped countries on Earth.
World’s largest known seagrass forest found in the Bahamas

Mar 20, 2023 | nationalgeographic.com | Craig Welch

ByPhotographs BySeagrasses, the pale green flowering plants that form meadows on the ocean floor, are home to all manner of life: turtles, fish, squid, seahorses, anemones, crab, dugongs. Yet for vast stretches of the marine world we still don’t know how much there is—and not just around far-flung atolls, but even along the coasts of some of the best-mapped countries on Earth.