Douglas Fox

Douglas Fox is a freelance journalist who writes about earth, evolution, and polar sciences. His recent trip to Thwaites Ice Shelf was his sixth visit to Antarctica. Fox has written for Scientific American, National Geographic, The Atlantic, and other publications. He is a contributing author to The Science Writers’ Handbook.

Rogues of the Rainforest 03.22.2023 Article - Tropical vines are wandering, as they always have, but recent environmental changes are giving them an edge over other rainforest plants—a shift that could have enduring impacts on climates around the globe.

This Antarctic glacier is one of the remains of the once huge Larsen B ice shelf, which infamously collapsed in 2002 over the course of a single month. Such a large area of ice collapsing so quickly was an unprecedented event in scientific history. Photograph by Armin Rose / Shutterstock

Antarctica’s Upside Down World 05.12.2021 Article - Clinging to the underside of ice hundreds of meters thick, strange communities of sea life eke out a living in perpetual darkness. Now, researchers are racing to find and study these creatures before they—and their ice sheets—disappear.

Douglas Fox

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