For the last several months, I’ve been working on a huge series for Environmental Health News, an online publication, about effects of man-made chemicals and climate change on birds. It’s been a riot – the perfect combination of new findings, sleuthing scientists, puzzles and, of course, gorgeous creatures. Some of the pieces, including this opening …
Alanna’s acclaimed play, Sea Sick, is coming to stages across Canada. So, I’m a science journalist and the most exciting thing I had done until this year was research a book on how we’re altering the chemistry of the global ocean. Sounds a bit dull, right? But it was a tale of grand adventure and …
“It is often said that our oceans are less understood than the surface of the moon. Alanna Mitchell’s informative and deeply moving book gives a wonderful portrait of a global marine ecosystem that desperately needs both greater popular understanding and international protection against looming catastrophe.” —-Mark Lynas, Environmentalist and author of ‘Six Degrees’.”
Alanna Mitchell 