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Madeline Ostrander

writer Madeline Ostrander

Madeline Ostrander is a freelance journalist and the author of At Home on an Unruly Planet: Finding Refuge on a Changed Earth. Her work has also appeared in the The Atlantic, The NewYorker.com, The Nation, Sierra Magazine, PBS’s NOVA Next, Slate, High Country News, Audubon, and numerous other outlets.

Madeline Ostrander's Latest Articles

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No Strings Attached

A new fishery in California shows how ropeless crab traps can prevent whales from becoming entangled in fishing lines.

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The Fight for the Heart of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

One year after the Trump administration threw the EPA into chaos, former employees continue to push back—and to dream of an agency reborn.

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After Cuts, Former NOAA Chief Scientist Says U.S. Science Risks Becoming a “Backwater Enterprise”

With its first wave of firings, the new Trump administration has decimated NOAA.