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Hannah Hoag

Hannah Hoag is an award-winning freelance journalist and editor based in Toronto, Canada. She has published stories in Nature, The Atlantic, Discover, Wired, New Scientist, Sapiens, The Globe and Mail, and elsewhere. She is the former (and founding) editor of Arctic Deeply and a contributor to The Science Writers’ Handbook.

Hannah Hoag's Latest Articles

The Bartram’s scrub hairstreak butterfly (Strymon acis bartrami) exists only in the pine rockland habitat of South Florida, an ecosystem that has been decimated by development in recent decades. Photograph by Chad Anderson
Butterflies in the Storm

Battling rising seas and creeping asphalt, scientists race to save two endangered species.

Little auks (Alle alle) flock to Hornsund each summer to nest and feed on a tiny, fat-filled crustacean called Calanus glacialis. The copepod lives in cold Arctic waters, often near the edge of the sea ice in the Arctic Ocean. Photograph by Hannah Hoag
Sea Change

The Arctic Ocean is beginning to look and act more like the Atlantic. It's a shift that threatens to upend an entire food web built on frigid waters.

An arctic fox (Vulpes lagopus) standing next to a reindeer skull on Wrangel Island.
High Stakes in the High North

A remote island that harbored the world’s last mammoths is becoming a holdout for Arctic wildlife once again.