CLARE FIESELER, PhD | journalist | scientist
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INVESTIGATIVE REPORTING
The Problematic Chemicals Fueling America’s EV Revolution
(Mother Jones, 2024)
Sea turtle death toll rises as dredge restrictions secretly unravel (The Post and Courier, 2024)
They couldn’t get pregnant. No one told them their ovaries held ‘forever chemicals.’
Behind closed doors, Vivek Ramaswamy pushed private anti-ESG services
Small Plant, Big Secrets
To Catch a Turtle Thief (The Walrus Magazine, 2021)
The Women Behind Your Sustainable Seafood (The Washington Post, 2018)
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funded by IWMF
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SELECT FEATURE REPORTING
Pulled from the Deep
(The Post and Courier, 2024)
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funded by the Pulitzer Center
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A Confederate monument stands as the tides rise (The Post and Courier, 2023)
The ‘next spotted owl war’ comes to the South
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selected for Longreads’ Best of the Week
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‘Feels like torture’: One city’s quest to learn from its first climate migrants (The Post and Courier
, 2023)
Is it too late to save the ‘Goldilocks’ frog? (The Post and Courier
, 2023)
Lithium is driving a clean car revolution. Will the South pay a price? (The Post and Courier
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Serving climate-friendly meals, one cafeteria tray at a time (Roads & Kingdoms, 2023)
The case against biodiversity (Vox, 2021)
How Trucking Eels is Restoring a River (The Washington Post, 2020)
The search for the Dr. Fauci of climate change (Grist, 2020)
Mysterious Island Experiment Could Help Us Colonize Mars (National Geographic, 2017)
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funded by SEJ
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SELECT NEWS REPORTING
COP28 goal to triple renewable power is possible. But there’s a catch. (POLITICO/E&E News, 2024)
First whales, now cables: Anti-wind activists push more false claims (POLITICO/E&E News, 2024)
Scientists and deep-sea miner spar over ‘dark oxygen’ discovery
(POLITICO/E&E News, 2024)
Clearcutting forest for 18,000-home development paused due to bats (The Post and Courier, 2023)
Misinformation spreads as more whales show up dead (The Post and Courier, 2023)
Chinese national held in global $2.2 million turtle smuggling scheme (The Washington Post, 2020)
Newark’s lead water crisis is different (The Washington Post, 2019)
This was the first place to hear ‘The Eagle has landed’ (The Washington Post, 2019)
America’s relationship with scientists? It’s complicated (The Washington Post, 2019)
Scientists Worry About an Overlooked
Bay Species (WAMU, 2013)
Essays
The International Space Station is Not the Future of Science Diplomacy (Slate, 2022)
How Long Have Sea Cows Thrived in the Arabian Gulf? (Smithsonian Magazine, 2021)
Will America Finally Confront All the Environmental Treaties? (Ensia, 2021)
An Ecologist’s Guide to Writing Obituaries (BioGraphic, 2017)
Don't Save Mallows Bay
(Undark, 2016)
Circumnavigation an Island is Like Speed Dating
(National Geographic Adventure, 2016)
Book Reviews
Life on Other Planets: A Memoir of Finding My Place in the Universe (Science Magazine, 2023)
Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest (Public Understanding of Science, 2022)
The Sirens of Mars: Searching for Life on Another World (Public Understanding of Science, 2020)