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Biography

I’m an award-winning science journalist and author of THE HIGH SEAS: AMBITION, POWER AND GREED ON THE UNCLAIMED OCEAN (2024). My work has been published in Nature, WIRED, National Geographic, Guardian, Scientific American, Salon and BBC Wildlife, among other outlets. Now freelance, I spent several years as an online editor with Nature covering climate change before founding the research journal Nature Climate Change in 2009. In 2019, I joined the faculty of Johns Hopkins University as an adjunct lecturer, and in 2020 I received a Giles St Aubyn Award for non-fiction from the Royal Society of Literature in the UK. I live by the sea in Ireland with my husband and children and spend my spare time cold-water swimming, paddle-boarding and kayaking. Learning to surf!

Content

Total articles 64

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  Miners are desperate to excavate the pristine deep ocean. Could Trump help them?

  By Olive Heffernan

  Feb. 14, 2025

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  Europe’s oldest marine reserve, located in County Cork, is in decline. What’s going on?

  By Olive Heffernan

  Nov. 21, 2024

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  For the Love of a Little Sea | Hakai Magazine

  By Olive Heffernan, Grant Callegari

  Nov. 21, 2024

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