Rachel Nuwer | Sierra Club

Rachel Nuwer is an award-winning science journalist who regularly contributes to the New York Times, National Geographic, BBC Future, and Scientific American, among others. She lives in New York. She is the author of Poached: Inside the Dark World of Wildlife Trafficking (Da Capo).

How to Make the Endangered Species Act Last the Next 50 Years

By Rachel Nuwer December 12, 2023

What if saving endangered species meant giving up on some of them?

In this story: endangered species, climate change

On a misty day, a polar bear and seagulls stand on a sandpit next to a barge that has "Sam M Taalak Barrow Alaska" painted on it.

Diving Beetles' Sexual Choices: Coercion or Promiscuity

By Rachel Nuwer September 27, 2022

A colorful beetle with a dizzying sex life

In this story: animal rights

Colorful photo of the underside of a Colorful photo of the underside of a diving beetle with many suction cups. with many suction cups.

Heeding the Pandemic’s Warnings

By Rachel Nuwer October 30, 2021

The trade in legal wildlife is a ticking time bomb

In this story: wildlife, animals, international, science

Beautiful pinky-purple pangolin with overlapping scales and a curved tail against a dark background.

Nature Is Returning

By Rachel Nuwer October 28, 2020

The pandemic gives us a chance to reset our relationship with the animal world

In this story: coronavirus, wildlife

Close-up of a rat on it hind feet.

Meet Eco-Hip-Hop's Nate & Hila

By Rachel Nuwer June 27, 2020

They're at the vanguard of the movement

In this story: music

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Green Beats and Environmentally Conscious Rhymes

By Rachel Nuwer June 27, 2020

Inside the burgeoning eco-hip-hop genre

In this story: music

Nate and Hila perform "Plant Sex" at the House of Yes in New York. They are each sitting in a huge flower while people in insect costumes dance below.

China Could End the Global Trade in Wildlife

By Rachel Nuwer March 27, 2020

The coronavirus pandemic has highlighted the dangers of the wildlife trade

In this story: wildlife, coronavirus

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Arrest of Key Ivory and Rhino Horn Trafficker Signals a Game Change

By Rachel Nuwer June 25, 2019

Conservationists, law enforcement team up to infiltrate wildlife crime syndicates

In this story: wildlife

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The Endangered Species Act Is Still America's Most Radical Law

By Rachel Nuwer February 28, 2019

A portrait gallery of creatures we've saved from extinction

In this story: endangered species

American bald eagle

Three Criminal Cartels Responsible for Most of Ivory Trafficking in Africa

By Rachel Nuwer September 20, 2018

Investigators link ivory seizures and trace them back to specific gangs

In this story: saving wild places

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