Virginia Gewin

Freelance science journalist, 2016 Alicia Patterson Foundation fellow

Virginia Gewin is a Portland, Oregon-based freelance science journalist and 2016 Alicia Patterson Foundation fellow. For the last decade, she has been freelance writing for Nature, The Oregonian, Portland Monthly, PLoS Biology and Consumers Digest.

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From coffee to cosmetics, companies are looking for ways to protect the plants their products are made from
Perennial versions of conventional crops offer benefits to the environment — but are they ready for prime time?
U.S. environmental groups are largely white. Here’s what some are — and some aren’t — doing about it.
Is the United States ready for offshore aquaculture?
Can mountains of animal bones boost food security in Ethiopia?
Crop gene banks are preserving the future of agriculture. But who’s preserving them?
Is pH a red herring when it comes to ocean acidification?
Big dam turnaround
Climate Change Cuisine?

Virginia Gewin

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