Wendee Nicole

Mar 24, 2025 | deceleration.news | Wendee Nicole

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Sleek, spotted, and sinuous, the male jaguar known as El Jefe, “the boss,” roamed through the Santa Rita mountains of southeastern Arizona, captured on wildlife camera traps more than 100 times between 2011 and 2015. The last known video showed El Jefe strolling by a slow-moving stream. And then he disappeared. Was he killed? Did he die of natural causes?

Mar 17, 2025 | news.asu.edu | Wendee Nicole

By Wendee NicoleTravelling to Mars has loomed large in the public’s imagination since at least the late 1800s when H.G. Wells' “War of the Worlds” tale of a Martian invasion was serialized in print. In 1899, respected scientist Nikola Tesla believed he was receiving transmissions from Mars, which intrigued the science community and the world.

Mar 15, 2025 | provokedbysusan.com | Wendee Nicole

The True Cost of Ultra-Fast Fashion: Cheap Clothes, High ConsequencesIs ultra-fast fashion bad for the planet and people—or are sweatshops raising families and nations from poverty? Eighteen years ago, while raising my two young towheaded children, I embarked on a month of consumer celibacy, writing about it for the NRDC’s OnEarth magazine. I was practicing a miniature version of “The Compact,” a social experiment in which 10 San Francisco-area friends stopped buying anything new for a year.

Nov 9, 2024 | redemptionsongfoundation.org | Wendee Nicole

It's hard to believe it has been a decade since I moved to Uganda and started Redemption Song Foundation with two Ugandan friends, one of whom still serves on our board of directors, Ben Ssenkeera. We have accomplished so much, as this retrospective overview of our major projects over the last ten years shows!When I first encountered the Batwa children of Kalehe village, some were malnourished, had ballooning bellies, and dirt was caked onto their fingers.

Nov 7, 2024 | ehp.niehs.nih.gov | Wendee Nicole

: Environmental Health PerspectivesVolume 132, Issue 11CID: 112001Clad in a cobalt blue jumpsuit—the field outfit of the Pasteur Institute of Madagascar (IPM)—Malagasy scientist Adélaïde Miarinjara was tweezing fleas, one by one, from a plate of soapy water, a “candle trap” she had set the night before inside a family home. Like others in the region, the two-story house arises from the rust-red earth it is made from, topped with a palm-thatch roof.