9 Plant Diseases That Threaten Your Favorite Foods

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Interactive: The 9 most menacing plant diseases that threaten our favorite foods from bread to bananas to beer.

Turtle Rehab

11/16/2013 Wellfleet, MA - Alfalfa, as nicknamed by the people who found it, a cold-stunned sea turtle, lies covered with seaweed to prevent the cold wind from reaching it. Photo by XiaoZhi Lim

Interactive: Every year, some young sea turtles feeding in Cape Cod during the summer overstay their visit and get ‘cold-stunned’ as the water turns cold. This interactive graphic shows how biologists and doctors at the New England Aquarium nurse the turtles back to health after they’re rescued by volunteers.

A Glimpse Into The Life Of A Forester

11/30/2013 Shutesbury, MA - Kate Marquis sprays paint on a tree, marking it for loggers. Photo by XiaoZhi Lim

Photoessay: The forest serves people in myriad ways, from furniture to paper products to recreation. Kate Marquis is a forester who manages woodlots to ensure that wood is harvested in a sustainable way, a physically-demanding job with long hours spent trekking through the woods alone.

Cape Cod Sea Turtle Cold-Stunning

11/16/2013 Wellfleet, MA - Kayla Phelps reacts to a cold-stunned sea turtle, nicknamed Alfalfa by the people who found it, moving and breathing in her hands after being found on the beach. Photo taken by XiaoZhi Lim

Photo: Each year, sea turtles that overstay in New England waters become cold-stunned as the waters turn cold, unable to move and eventually die if not found by Massachusetts Audubon volunteers and sent to the New England Aquarium’s cold-stunned sea turtle rehabilitation program.

Industrial Nitrogen Fixation: A History Of Fertilizers

This interactive was produced using Verite Timeline as an accompanying graphic for a short news piece that I wrote for Boston University News Service, Scientists Report First Step Away From Fertilizers. The graphic was designed to pull attention to all the good and the bad that synthetic fertilizers have done for humanity: helped to feed the… Continue reading Industrial Nitrogen Fixation: A History Of Fertilizers