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Sarah Zielinski

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Sarah Zielinski is a science writer and editor with more than a decade of experience covering a wide breadth of science, from astronomy to zoology. A former editor at Smithsonian magazine, she has been published in Scientific American, Discover, National Geographic News, Science and Slate. The winner of the DCSWA 2010 Science News Brief Award, she has a B.A. in biological sciences from Cornell University and an M.A. in journalism through New York University’s Science, Health and Environmental Reporting Program. She writes the blog Wild Things at Science News.

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an American lobster on a counter

As climate change warms the Atlantic, the range of the lobster is shifting north. Lobsters are just one of many species around the world reacting to global warming.

temmuzcan/iStock/Getty Images Plus

 Ecosystems
Warming pushes lobsters and other species to seek cooler homes
In response to climate change, plants and animals are moving toward the poles, changing timing of important events and more
a photo of a field of Mount Rainier wildflowers

With the help of volunteers, scientists are monitoring wildflowers on Mount Rainier as part of climate change research.

Mount Rainier National Park/Flickr (CC BY 2.0)

 Ecosystems
Photographing wildflowers and other ways you can help fight climate change
Even nonscientists can take part in climate and conservation research
a photo of a group of Adélie penguins standing on a rocky surface

Poop can make things messy for Adélie penguins. But it can also provide information about the birds. That includes where they are and what they’re eating.

Liam Quinn/Flickr (CC BY-SA 2.0)

 Animals
To monitor penguin diet from satellites, look to poop
Landsat imagery can tell scientists what foods Adélie penguins are eating
a photo of the six teen cohosts and Adam Savage around a table on the set of Mythbusters Jr.

Six young MythBusters join Adam Savage (center) in the new MythBusters Jr.

Science Channel

Eureka! Lab Technology
MythBusters Jr. puts kids in charge of testing myths — for science
Six young makers and scientists join together in this new Science Channel series
cobra cannibalizing another cobra

Scientists working in the Kalahari Desert spotted this cape cobra, which they later named Hannibal, eating a smaller cape cobra. That set off a search for how common the practice of cobra cannibalism really is.

Courtesy of B. Maritz

 Animals
How Hannibal the cannibal led to a discovery about cobra diet
A sighting of one cape cobra eating another sparked a study of cannibalism
a gentoo penguin jumping into the ocean off a rocky outcropping

Researchers attached cameras to gentoo penguins on the Falkland Islands to see what they ate. The video revealed that some of the birds’ tiny prey can avoid being eaten.

J. Handley

 Animals
This penguin prey knows how to fight back
Scientists filmed ‘epic fight scenes’ below the ocean’s surface