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
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2 weeks 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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1 month 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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1 month ago |
audubon.org | Susan Cosier
Roughly 15 years ago Dave Mickelson began to see flocks of Sandhill Cranes floating gently onto his Wisconsin farm, their long legs extended like aircraft landing gear. Spring after spring the elegant birds returned, plucking seeds from the rows of corn and soybeans he’d just planted. “If you see cranes in your field, it gets your blood pressure up a little bit,” he says. Mickelson wasn’t alone.
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1 month ago |
insideclimatenews.org | Susan Cosier
At the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, an island in a sea of farmland where corn and soybeans grow, sits the Soybean Innovation Lab. The institution, part of the U.S. Agency for International Development’s Feed the Future initiative, helps advance soybean production in sub-Saharan Africa, assisting farmers there and developing markets for soybean farmers in the United States. And it’s scheduled to close in April.
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1 month ago |
ecotopical.com | Susan Cosier
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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
