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Lydia Larsen

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Lydia Larsen is a 2023 AAAS Mass Media Science and Engineering Fellow with Inside Climate News. She’s a graduate of the University of Wisconsin-Madison where she studied genetics and genomics and life sciences communication. While at UW, Lydia worked as an undergraduate research assistant studying how copepods (tiny crustaceans) adapt to temperature and salinity shifts caused by climate change. She also joined a science communication research group that studied scientific misinformation on social media. Lydia covered the science beat as a writer and editor for The Badger Herald, an independent UW student newspaper.

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Atlantic puffin, Spitsbergen, Svalbard Islands, Norway. Credit: Sergio Pitamitz/VWPics/Universal Images Group via Getty Images.

The Plucky Puffin, Endangered Yet Coping: Scientists Link Emergence of a Hybrid Subspecies to Climate Change

By Lydia Larsen

Protesting a wind project in Idaho.

Is Race a Major Factor Behind Opposition to Wind Farms?

By Lydia Larsen

Strong storms often lead to bluff erosion on the shores of Lake Superior. Credit: Juli Beth Hinds

U.S. Housing Crisis Thwarts Recruitment for Nature-Based Infrastructure Projects

By Lydia Larsen

The Western Meadowlark, state bird of North Dakota, was studied during research on the prevalence of grassland birds in fields of corn and soy beans in North Dakota used for biofuels. Credit: Jon G. Fuller / VWPics/Universal Images Group via Getty Images.

What’s More Harmful to Birds in North Dakota: Oil and Gas Drilling, or Corn and Soybeans?

By Lydia Larsen

The Wisconsin state capitol rises behind lakeside buildings in Madison, Wisconsin, where the Latino Academy of Workforce Development, a nonprofit aimed at building community through adult education, sponsored a community air monitoring program this summer. Credit: Education Images/Universal Images Group via Getty Images.

Monitoring Air Quality as a Lesson in Climate Change, Civic Engagement and Latino Community Leadership

By Lydia Larsen

The high arctic ecosystem at Zackenberg Research Station in remote Northeast Greenland has been monitored since 1996 as part of the Greenland Ecosystem Monitoring program. The station is owned by the Greenland Government and run by Aarhus University, Denmark. Credit: Piotr Łukasik.

On the Coast of Greenland, Early Arctic Spring Has Been Replaced by Seasonal Extremes, New Research Shows

By Lydia Larsen

Container ships siting off the coast of the Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach, waiting to be unloaded. Credit: Allen J. Schaben/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images

A Shipping Rule Backfires, Diverting Sulfur Emissions From the Air to the Ocean

By Lydia Larsen

A man wearing shorts and a t-shirt walks in the town center as the melting Longyear glacier looms behind during a summer heat wave on Svalbard archipelago on July 30, 2020 in Longyearbyen, Norway. Credit: Sean Gallup/Getty Images

The Melting Glaciers of Svalbard Offer an Ominous Glimpse of More Warming to Come

By Lydia Larsen

A pair of raccoon butterflyfish swim the reef off Palmyra Atoll while a scientific diver conducts research in the area as part of a month-long expedition to study the health of the reefs associated with the Line Islands, which are remotely located in the Pacific Ocean close to the equator. Credit: Rick Loomis/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images.

In the Pacific, Some Coral Survived the Last El Nino, Thanks to Ocean Currents

By Lydia Larsen

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