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Zoë Schlanger
Zoë Schlanger is a staff writer at The Atlantic. 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. Her book, The Light Eaters, about the world of plant-behavior-and-intelligence research, will be published by HarperCollins in May 2024. At The Atlantic, she covers climate change.
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