Nicola Jones

Less than a fifth of deep sea life is identifiable: a wonderful statistic explained for Hakai magazine: https://www.hakaimagazine.com/news/less-than-a-fifth-of-deep-sea-life-is-identifiable/ I stumbled on this story while trawling through abstracts for a conference online (I was unable to attend). I was impressed by the scope of the study, and the hard number it provided on just how weird the deep sea can be.

What do you do when you find out about a massive (but expensive) convention on board games in Vancouver? Apply for a press pass and write a feature, obviously! Welcome to the weird and wonderful world of board gaming: https://www.piquenewsmagazine.com/whistler/game-on/Content?oid=15034635

Yale e360 assigned me this wonderful story about how Indigenous groups are taking a lead on climate change adaptation plans. https://e360.yale.edu/features/how-native-tribes-are-taking-the-lead-on-planning-for-climate-change Sadly I was unable to visit the Swinomish, although it would, as it turns out, have been an ill-timed visit to Washington state (in February, just as the novel coronavirus was establishing there). I did, however, attend a wonderful session on Indigenous climate action at the joint Canadian Anthropology Society and American Anthropological Association conference in Vancouver in November 2019. My work for the anthropology magazine SAPIENS has helped me to understand Indigenous views on health, and how environmental health is seen as so integral to human health; physical and mental health so intertwined.

I spent much of 2019 helping to commission, edit and write this comprehensive report about sustainability, blending physical and social science in what I think is a really useful way. https://futureearth.org/2020/02/07/we-have-launched-the-our-future-on-earth-2020-report/ Many thanks to Future Earth for the opportunity, and to all the authors who worked so hard and put up with my multiple rounds of editing! NOTE: No, there is no chapter in this report about pandemics, which goes to show how unpredictable our world can be.