Susan Cosier
Journalist at Freelance
Science and environmental journalist. Words in Science, Scientific American, WSJ, New York Times for Kids, National Geographic, Undark, & others. she/her
Articles
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1 month ago |
insideclimatenews.org | Susan Cosier
A lab focused on developing soybean farming in Africa was scheduled to shutter in April, a casualty of the Trump administration’s USAID cuts. Then a donor stepped in. Founders Pledge, an international nonprofit that supports entrepreneurs, announced that an anonymous donor offered the Soybean Innovation Lab just over $1 million to continue its work. The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign lab was one of 17 USAID-funded Feed the Future labs around the country.
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1 month ago |
insideclimatenews.org | Susan Cosier
One stretch of the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal near Joliet, Illinois, is what freshwater biologists call a pinch point. Here, at the Brandon Road Lock and Dam, workers are preparing a site for barriers to keep invasive bighead and silver carp from infiltrating the Great Lakes. If enough of them slip by before the project is complete, the fish could cause irreversible damage to the largest freshwater system on earth.
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1 month ago |
ecotopical.com | Susan Cosier
Welcome to EcoTopical Your daily eco-friendly green news aggregator. Leaf through planet Earths environmental headlines in one convenient place. Read, share and discover the latest on ecology, science and green living from the web's most popular sites.
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1 month ago |
chicagohealthonline.com | Susan Cosier
Fact checked by Jim LacySierra Bartlett wanted a water birth. It was 2021, and she was living in Chicago’s West Town neighborhood, 20 weeks pregnant with her first child. She had recently learned that West Suburban Medical Center offered water births with the midwives who attended births there. Hesitant at first, Bartlett, who is Black, wanted to be careful about who she entrusted with her care; maternal death rates for Black women are up to four times higher than for white women nationally.
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2 months ago |
audubon.org | Susan Cosier
Dallas May can’t help but feel that something is missing. For more than a decade he’s been working to restore shortgrass prairie habitat to support wildlife on his family’s 20,000-acre ranch in southeast Colorado. His family rotationally grazes their Limousin cattle to give native grasses time to rest and recover, moving the 800 ebony and caramel-colored cows from pasture to pasture to feed on buffalograss and blue grama that grow near sand dropseed and little bluestem.
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Plastic is everywhere. Some people out there are doing their best to ensure that we stem its flow and keep companies accountable for its components and disposal. https://t.co/9S5ELh9faw
Plastic is everywhere. Some people out there are doing their best to ensure that we stem its flow and keep companies accountable for its contents and disposal. https://t.co/9S5ELh8HkY
“Conservation can be a huge downer,” says James Danoff-Burg, director of conservation at The Living Desert Zoo and Gardens. “This,” he says, “is a success.” My story for @Revelator_News. Thanks to @johnrplatt for the edit and the opportunity! https://t.co/hMMt2b4H1H
