Redemption Song Foundation

• Redemption Song Foundation (RSF). 2014 to present, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit charitable organization working in Uganda to provide education and community development for indigenous Batwa tribe members. For more information, visit our website or our RSF Facebook page.

My Latest Articles

• Put a Mask On It! Understanding how COVID spreads. Mar 29, 2021. A feature for the Science Philanthropy Alliance's COVID-19 Basic Science Prequels Project.

  "The Skagit Valley Chorale 'exists to enrich the lives of all interested singers and concert audiences... expressing the human spirit through choral music.' By practicing for their performance at the upcoming Skagit Valley Tulip Festival, they hoped to spread joy through music. What they spread instead was [the coronavirus]..."

• A Different Kind of Storm: Natech Events in Houston’s Fenceline Communities. Environmental Health Perspectives May 2021. A feature about natural-triggered technological disasters, environmental justice, and what chemical industry has done since Harvey. In a nutshell, not much — but there's hope.
• Safe Passage. Preserving and connecting habitat in wildlife corridors can save animal — and human — lives. Defenders of Wildlife Magazine. Spring 2021.



• In the face of a global pandemic, how can conservation efforts reduce the chance that poaching will spread disease? Ensia, University of MN Institute on the Environment. October 2020.



• The Long Game: Amid a sea of dangers, Kemp’s ridley sea turtles hang on. Defenders of Wildlife Magazine. Spring 2020.
• Articles produced under the Mongabay Prize for Environmental Reporting/Special Reporting Initiative:
• Is the Human Cost of Saving Gorillas Too High? Take Part, Nov 2014. Photo gallery: Up Close & Personal with Endangered Gorillas.
• Seeing the Forest for the Trees: How "One Health" Connects Humans, Animals, and Ecosystems. Environmental Health Perspectives May 2014 cover story (my photos too!) PDF here
• Tipping the scale: How the late Economics Nobel Laureate Elinor Ostrom could save the world's forests. Mongabay, May 29, 2014.
• Ecotopia emerging: Sustainable forests and healthy livelihoods go hand in hand. Mongabay, Jun 26, 2014.
• How Jane Goodall’s legacy is alleviating poverty. CBS Smart Planet. Apr 7 2014.
• I interviewed the amazing Jane Goodall for Animal Planet for her 80th birthday, and wrote 10 Reasons Why Everyone Should Love Jane Goodall! (no longer online) Apr 3, 2014.

KUDOS!

• Received the Mongabay Prize for Environmental Reporting, a 6-month Special Reporting Initiative grant to report on how tropical forest conservation and human livelihoods can coexist.

• Won the 2013 American Society of Journalists and Authors (ASJA) Award Best Science/Tech/Biz Mag article. The judges wrote, "Wendee's Did Tap Water Kill Lou Gehrig is science writing as it should be: sharp, clear prose that builds into a great story about an intriguing, sophisticated topic. Wendee's story stood out in a large and unusually strong field this year."

• Q&A with Paul Epstein, author of Changing Planet, Planet Health , Harvard professor, at Climate Central. Praised by the book's co-author Dan Ferber as "the most probing, incisive, interview that either of us have done so far."

• "I just read Many Bayous, One River [Dec 2006 TX Parks & Wildlife Magazine]. Thank gosh we have writers like Wendee who have the history, the passion and the reporting and writing chops to take on a story like this. Kudos to her!!" —Tom Harvey, Texas Parks & Wildlife Dept

• I authored the AOL Travel Guide to Houston — an online guide with the best attractions, hotels, restaurants, and more, as well as a history and overview of the Bayou City! (no byline). "I'm almost finished with the first sweep through your guide and it is awesome! Great style and by far the cleanest copy I've received yet." -Editor Craig Guillot

• I received 1st Place 2006 IRMA Award (International Regional Magazine Association) for Best Nature Feature, Save the Monkeyface, published in Texas Parks & Wildlife Magazine, April 2005.

My Favorites!

• Pig Poop Power: Scaling up waste-to-energy technology could transform the hog farming industry. Discover Magazine, Mar 2014.
• Think for Yourself: Critical thinking skills are more important than ever in today's information environment. Ensia.com. Spring 2013 online only.

• The Tiniest Catch Marine scientists are prowling the Bering Sea to learn how climate affects minute sea creatures and the lucrative fishery that depends on them. Nature. Nov 4, 2010. I also wrote 9 posts for Nature's Great Beyond blog when I was on the ship (that goes to the final one, with previous posts linked at the bottom).
  

• Save the Birds - With Doppler Radar. The first article I wrote for the award-winning Pacific Standard (then Miller-McCune) magazine, Apr/May 2011. Picked up in a blog post on the Knight Science Journalism Tracker: "Evocative, focused, surprising, and narratively pure." - Charlie Petit, KSJ blogger.

  

• Fighting for the Firefox. Nepal's red panda is getting help from a small group of local forest guardians, but the highly endangered mammal still faces a troubled future as its habitat is lost to deforestation. National Wildlife Magazine. Feb/Mar 2009.

• Can Eating Less Meat Curb Climate Change? An essay in The Daily Climate online. Published Jan 19, 2011.

• DIVING WITH SHARKS! In April 2008, Discovery Channel sent me to Australia's Coral Sea with biologists and the Expedition Shark documentary crew. The first post, Fear, about our relationship with and to sharks, is one of my faves. The rest are here.

• My 30 days of Consumer Celibacy. Living Green dept. OnEarth Magazine, Summer 2007. I love this article, and check out the hilarious artwork on the PDF version!

• Will Urban Sprawl K.O. the Koala? A wildlife hospital founded by the late Crocodile Hunter Steve Irwin is helping Australia's teddy-bearish marsupial weather the threat of fragmented forest habitat. June/July 2007, National Wildlife Magazine.
  

• Back to Nature: What is it about simplicity and solitude that inspires writers? My New Mexico Adventures Featured in E the Environmental Magazine

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• Fish Wars: The Battle of 2 Worldviews. Or is it? An article about evolution as a scientist who is also a Christian.

• Read my Essay from National Center for Science Education (NCSE) Newsletter on The Way Science Works.

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