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Zoë Schlanger
Zoë Schlanger is a former staff writer at The Atlantic. She is the author of The Light Eaters, about the world of plant-behavior-and-intelligence research. She previously covered the environment at Quartz and Newsweek. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, Time, NPR, and elsewhere. She was the recipient of a 2017 National Association of Science Writers reporting award for coverage of air pollution in Detroit, and a finalist for the 2019 Livingston Award for a series on water politics at the Texas-Mexico border. At The Atlantic, she covers climate change.
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