Ashley Braun

07.06.2021

Ashley Braun

Ashley Braun

Ashley Braun is an award-winning science and environmental journalist based in Seattle, Washington. Her writing has appeared in publications such as The Atlantic, Science, Scientific American, and Hakai Magazine, among others, and she has reported in locales from the United Nations climate summit in Morocco to Australia’s Great Barrier Reef.

shrimp shells Shrimp Shell Slurry to the Rescue? 06.26.2026 News - A new, multistep chemical process can turn bits of organic waste into “carbon-negative” fuel, food, and construction material.
three-spined stickleback (Gasterosteus aculeatus) These Fish Can Adjust to Heatwaves—And Pass the Resilience on to Their Offspring 10.15.2025 News - Though scientists aren’t quite sure how they do it, three-spined sticklebacks show an unexpected fortitude in the face of repeated heatwaves.
Catalina ground squirrel How Santa Catalina Island Got Its Ground Squirrels 04.15.2025 News - The ecosystem we see today was molded by human hands.
Ping, You’ve Got Whale 03.12.2025 News - A new artificial intelligence-powered detection system is giving ship captains real-time alerts when a whale is in their path.
Fire is often seen as a destructive force. And it certainly can be, especially after decades of fire suppression across much of the western U.S. But slowly, with a better understanding of fire ecology and with the benefit of Indigenous knowledge, state and federal agencies are seeing the benefits that regular, low-intensity fires can provide entire ecosystems, like this one in Yosemite National Park. Photograph by Jen Guyton Fire for Water 02.12.2024 Article - To combat the growing risk of catastrophic wildfires and to bring more water back onto the landscape, a tribe in California is helping to reshape fire management policy in the West.
A western leafcutter bee visits a flower in search of pollen, Trinity Alps, California. Photograph by Clay Bolt Making Nature Less Predictable 12.02.2022 Article - In their fight against the homogenization of nature, scientists and farmers are walking well-worn paths and using innovative approaches to help bring native pollinators back to California.
What it Means to be Wild 07.08.2021 Opinion, Review - Against the backdrop of a world so thoroughly altered by humankind, Emma Marris's latest book, Wild Souls, challenges our assumptions about nature and how we protect it.
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