Robert J. Kunzig

Birmingham, Washington, D.C., United States

Writer and Editor at Freelance

Writer, editor; environment, science, sometimes history. Ex @NatGeoMag, @DiscoverMag, @sciam

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Farm to fuel (video)

2 months ago | thefern.org | Alex Hinton |Brendan Borrell |Robert J. Kunzig |Robert Langellier

How pesticide-coated corn seed used to make ethanol wound up killing a bunch of bees in NebraskaAs part of the rollout of , FERN’s podcast series on the pollinator crisis, we are happy to share , a documentary short about the impact of neonicotinoids on bee populations.
Transforming the Delta

Dec 19, 2024 | thefern.org | Robert J. Kunzig

This article was produced in collaboration with Switchyard Magazine. It may not be reproduced without express permission from FERN. If you are interested in republishing or reposting this article, please contact [email protected]. South of Cape Girardeau, Missouri, the valley of the Mississippi River fans out into a broad plain known as the Delta. The name is misleading: The region lies hundreds of miles north of the true river delta at the Gulf of Mexico.
Après l'incendie, des trésors enfouis sous Notre-Dame de Paris ont été découverts

Nov 29, 2024 | flipboard.com | Robert J. Kunzig

2 hours agoÀ Angers, pourquoi l’œuvre « La voie blanche » n’est-elle pas éclairée ? Son créateur s’indignePrès de la gare d’Angers (Maine-et-Loire), La voie blanche célèbre la mémoire des 821 déportés du convoi n° 8, en 1942. Emmanuel Saulnier, …2 hours agoLe jour où le pape refusa de sacrer NapoléonIl y a 220 ans, le 2 décembre 1804, Napoléon se faisait sacrer à Notre-Dame de Paris. Non sans un mariage express la veille, imposé par le pape qui …
These are the surprising treasures archaeologists found after Notre Dame burned

Nov 26, 2024 | nationalgeographic.com | Robert J. Kunzig

In February 2022, the reconstruction of the cathedral of Notre Dame in Paris was ready to begin. After the April 2019 fire, it had taken nearly three years to remove the debris and to shore up the damaged stone walls and ceiling vaults. If Notre Dame was to reopen in 2024, as French President Emmanuel Macron had decreed, it was urgent to begin rebuilding what had been lost—starting with the emblematic wooden spire that rises above the center of the church.
Water batteries

Jan 25, 2024 | science.org | Alejandro Couce |Aidan Slattery |Sergey Ivanov |Robert J. Kunzig

In an underground powerhouse, four reversible turbines (green cylinders) pump water to the top of Raccoon Mountain—and generate 1700 megawatts of electricity when it comes back down. PHOTO: TENNESSEE VALLEY AUTHORITYOpen in viewerThe machines that turn Tennessee’s Raccoon Mountain into one of the world’s largest energy storage devices—in effect, a battery that can power a medium-size city—are hidden in a cathedral-size cavern deep inside the mountain.
How giant ‘water batteries’ could make green power reliable

Jan 24, 2024 | sciencemag.org | Robert J. Kunzig

The machines that turn Tennessee’s Raccoon Mountain into one of the world’s largest energy storage devices—in effect, a battery that can power a medium-size city—are hidden in a cathedral-size cavern deep inside the mountain. But what enables the mountain to store all that energy is plain in an aerial photo. The summit plateau is occupied by a large lake that hangs high above the Tennessee River, so close it looks like it might fall in.
How giant ‘water batteries’ could make green power reliable

Jan 24, 2024 | anl.gov | Robert J. Kunzig

The machines that turn Tennessee’s Raccoon Mountain into one of the world’s largest energy storage devices—in effect, a battery that can power a medium-size city—are hidden in a cathedral-size cavern deep inside the mountain. But what enables the mountain to store all that energy is plain in an aerial photo. The summit plateau is occupied by a large lake that hangs high above the Tennessee River, so close it looks like it might fall in.
Can We Save Every Species from Extinction?

Oct 17, 2023 | scientificamerican.com | Robert J. Kunzig

A Bald Eagle disappeared into the trees on the far bank of the Tennessee River just as the two researchers at the bow of our modest motorboat began hauling in the trawl net. Eagles have rebounded so well that it's unusual not to see one here these days, Warren Stiles of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service told me as the net got closer.
The Best Books of Ocean Journalism

Aug 25, 2023 | fivebooks.com | Helen Scales |Ian Urbina |Robert J. Kunzig |James Nestor

You’re an environmental and ocean journalist and the author of two books about how humans engage with the seas. Can you tell us a little bit about the magic of the ocean? I have been writing about the oceans for a while now. My first book, The Imperiled Ocean, portrays the ocean from various perspectives, through the stories of refugees, artists, and scientists. While writing it, I realized I like writing about ocean science.
Notre Dame rises again

Jul 27, 2022 | nationalgeographic.co.uk | Robert J. Kunzig