FFRIDAY, February 11, 2022 is the International Day of Women and Girls in Science, and Orion the staff has collected fifteen of our favorite stories about female leadership in science.
Chronicles of Ice by Gretel Ehrlich – November/December 2004 issue
A meditation on the shrinking world embodied in the soul of a glacier.
Deep Intellect by Sy Montgomery – November/December 2011 issue
In the spirit of the octopus.
The Science of Citizenship by Belle Boggs – November/December 2013 issue
What’s at stake when schools skimp on science?
Technology from nature in 10 words by Sue Thomas – September/October 2015 issue
A list of adopted words.
Nature Talking by Robin Wall Kimmerer – March/April 2017 Issue
Find a language that affirms our kinship with the natural world.
The People’s Forest of Alexandra Tempus – Fall 2018 Issue
How the Menominee are coping with climate change.
Cycling with Butterflies by Sara Dykman – Summer 2019 issue
See the world through the eyes of a monarch butterfly.
Swimming with Crocodiles by Anna Tsing and Niels Bubandt – Spring 2020 Edition
Nature is avenged by a prehistoric animal.
The Shadow of Mankind and the Spirit of Animals by Jane Goodall and Krista Tippet – Fall 2020 issue
A conversation.
Nature of Plastics by Meera Subramanian – Spring 2021 Edition
Explorations on the edge of the artificial.
Upriver by Rebecca Altman – Summer 2021 issue
A researcher traces the legacy of plastic
Woman in the Woods by Sandra Steingraber – Summer 2021 issue
A study of resilience in does and other female creatures.
First Passage (& Web Extra, “Notes from the Icebreaker”) by Elizabeth Rush – Summer 2021 issue
A journey to motherhood in the age of glacial loss.
What Slime Knows by Lacy Johnson – Fall 2021 issue
There is no hierarchy in the web of life.
