Sharon Levy - My Writing

My Writing

Many of my assignments as a contributing editor at OnEarth give me the chance to join researchers in the field and report on the excitement and frustration of environmental science in progress. I focus on scientists as human beings, with human passions and failings -- and the impacts their discoveries have on us all. See Fires Down Under , Empty Nest Syndrome, Mammoth Mystery, The Vanishing Bee, The Giving Trees, and Riddle of the Shells.

Essays:
Carrying Your Own Load
Looking Away

Recent pieces in National Wildlife:
Monkeys on the Mend
The Continuing Saga of the Galapagos Finches
A Top Dog Takes Over (the renaissance of the gray wolf in Yellowstone)
Risky Plastic

Features for BioScience (in pdf format):
Island Fox Paradox
Dingo Dilemma
Modified Mosquitoes
Running Hot and Cold: are rainforests sinks or taps for carbon?
Cannery Row Revisited
Clashes With Titans
A Plague of Deer
Rekindling Native Fires

My first book, Once and Future Giants: What Ice Age Extinctions Tell Us About the Fate of Earth's Largest Animals, will be published by Oxford University Press in February 2011.

For a summary of other recent publications, click HERE .