Lydia Larsen
About Lydia Larsen
Lydia Larsen is a 2023 AAAS Mass Media Science and Engineering Fellow with Inside Climate News. She’s a graduate of the University of Wisconsin-Madison where she studied genetics and genomics and life sciences communication. While at UW, Lydia worked as an undergraduate research assistant studying how copepods (tiny crustaceans) adapt to temperature and salinity shifts caused by climate change. She also joined a science communication research group that studied scientific misinformation on social media. Lydia covered the science beat as a writer and editor for The Badger Herald, an independent UW student newspaper.
How puffins stay plucky in a heating world
Studying puffin populations on three Norwegian islands, scientists have uncovered the first evidence to connect a large-scale hybridization to 20th-century warming trends. Yet a serious decline in the birds’ genetic diversity does not bode well for their future.
What’s worse for the birds in North Dakota — gas land or biofuel crops?
A new study based on breeding bird surveys found that grassland birds reacted even more negatively to corn and soybean fields than they did to land used for oil and gas development.