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Ari Daniel

I've always loved science. As a graduate student, I trained gray seal pups (Halichoerus grypus) for my Master's degree at the University of St. Andrews and helped tag wild Norwegian killer whales (Orcinus orca) for my Ph.D. at MIT and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. These days, as a science reporter, I record a species that I'm better equipped to understand — Homo sapiens.  My radio stories have been featured on PRI’s The World, Radiolab, and NPR’s Morning Edition and All Things Considered. In the fifth grade, I won the “Most Contagious Smile” award.
Climate science and solutions
How climate change is strengthening hurricanes, and what communities can do
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Texas A&M to shut Qatar campus over charges of a disinformation campaign
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How climate change is strengthening hurricanes, and what communities can do
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Texas A&M is shutting down its Qatar campus amid charges of a disinformation campaign
How big-headed ants changed the eating habits of savannah lions
Animals adapting to climate change
Scientists research why some coral in American Samoa is thriving despite warmer oceans
Animals adapting to climate change
Editors of 2 academic publications walk out and start their own
The geology of a deadly earthquake
Two students working on a computer
The World's Global Classroom
Texas A&M is shutting down its Qatar campus amid charges of a disinformation campaign
beach
Environment
Why corals in American Samoa are thriving despite warmer oceans 
Barnacle geese have developed new migration routes and breeding grounds amid warming global temperatures. 
The Big Fix
Animal species are evolving to adjust to climate change, but scientists say time is running out
woman at computer
The World's Global Classroom
‘Out of reach’: Over 40 academic editors leave global publishing company they say overcharged to publish their work
buildings collapsed in rubble
The geology behind the deadly earthquakes in Turkey and Syria
Today, Rami is a resident at Maimonides Medical Center in Brooklyn, New York, where he sees patients with numerous ailments, including COVID-19.
After years apart, this Syrian doctor in New York is finally celebrating Ramadan with his family
Observers in southern Iceland stand watch, scanning the sea for killer whales. 
COVID-19
Research on whales, cosmos among many studies derailed by pandemic
A team of researchers at the Vanderbilt Vaccine Center selects lead antibody candidates for further screening.
COVID-19
Racing to develop a drug to fight COVID-19
The author's 3-year-old daughter Leila has been occupying herself during the "stay at home" order in Boston amid the coronavirus outbreak by making cards and beaded necklaces for her preschool friends. 
COVID-19
How families around the world talk coronavirus with kids
Building
Climate Change
In Iceland, turning CO2 into rock could be a big breakthrough for carbon capture
A man is perched atop a propeller of a small twin engine plane on a tarmac. The plane is bright cherry red.
Climate Change
At sea and in the sky, scientists brave wicked weather to explore a key ocean current
Many silhouetted figures depicting the evolution of man
Science
Where does language come from?
Saturn has been Cassini's home for 13 years.
Science
Farewell, Cassini
A school girl watches a partial solar eclipse at the Planetarium in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, March 9, 2016.
Science
What will we learn from this year’s solar eclipse?
There are curious parallels between "love" between two particles and two people.
Arts
Love, quantum physics and ‘entanglement’
A research team crossing an ice plateau in the Indian Himalayas faced risks of hidden crevasses, storms, avalanches and earthquakes.
Science
Climate change research can be risky. But not doing it is even riskier.
When Sona Hosseini went on a class trip to the planetarium, she fell in love with the stars.
Education
Her love of the stars made her lose track of her life on Earth
Tug of Hope
Culture
These kids are playing tug of war across the US-Mexico border
Adventist
Conflict
Syrian refugee kids find joy and success in these classrooms. They are a lucky few.
Kimberly Medina, 19, votes during the U.S. presidential primary election at Gates Street Elementary School in Los Angeles, California, on June 7, 2016. Californians will vote Nov. 8 on a ballot measure that seeks to overturn a ban on bilingual education.
Education
Should kids be learning in more than one language? Californians just decided “yes.”
Greentown Labs in Somerville, Mass. has become the nation’s largest clean technology incubator, housing more than 50 small companies.
Technology
Massachusetts pushes to brew up new green businesses to help fight climate change
Garbage piles up in a riverbed near Beirut in late 2015. The region's almost year-long trash crisis prompted a political crisis, but also the emergence of nascent recycling programs.
Environment
Never waste a good waste crisis: Beirut’s trash woes give birth to recycling
Abdallah Abu-Bakr Al-Ghazouli fled Darfur in 2007. He's tried to get refugee status in Lebanon since. Now he and some other Sudanese asylum seekers are camping out 100 feet from the UNHCR office in Beirut.
Conflict
In Lebanon, if you’re not a Syrian it’s even harder to get refugee status
Pregnancy
Science
Our ability to speak doesn’t begin with our first words. It begins in the womb.
A frame from a simulation of the merger of two black holes and the resulting emission of gravitational radiation (colored fields, which represent a component of the curvature of space-time). The yellow areas near the black holes do not correspond to physi
Science
Listen to the collision of two black holes. Einstein was right.
Greenland's Sermilik fjord is choked with huge icebergs from one of the island's biggest glaciers. But climate researchers working in the fjord and on the Helheim glacier are looking for tiny clues in hopes of getting a better handle on how cliamte change
Environment
Looking small for big answers in Greenland
Dark rock above the Helheim glacier in southeastern Greenland marks its former level, before a sudden and dramatic retreat of hit many Greenland glaciers a decade ago. Scientists working on the Helheim and the fjord it drains into are looking for clues to
Environment
In Greenland, a climate change mystery with clues written in water and stone
Terminal manager Paul Lamb stands before one of the piles of salt at Eastern Minerals, Inc. in Chelsea, Massachusetts. They bring in hundreds of thousands of pounds of salt every year.
Business
No snow, record high temperatures — but PLENTY of salt
A butterscotch mountain surges skywards in Iceland.
Environment
Turning ice into fire: How climate change could mean more volcanic eruptions in Iceland
Trees and other green plants are nature's tools for sucking CO2 out of the air, but scientists say there aren't nearly enough trees to remove all the waste gas we've put into the atmosphere. So some are trying to create new devices that work like trees —
Environment
Is an artificial tree part of the solution to climate change? These guys think so.
US President Barack Obama and Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte both favor "uh" (or "eh" in Dutch) over "um." Younger people and women are more likely to say "um."
Science
Are we witnessing the death of ‘uh’? Um, maybe — and not just in English
This new ceiling lamp from Stack Lighting is on a growing list of household products that are "smart," but also green. It uses sensors to adjust itself based on ambient lighting in a room, and switch itself off if there's no one there. The company says th
Technology
Here comes an energy efficiency revolution
Stephen (left) and Shadrack (center) Osero from Kenya discuss their project for using human waste as a source of green power at this year's Climate CoLab conference at MIT. The brothers were among the winners of this year's CoLab contest, which crowdsourc
Environment
An MIT project crowdsources local solutions in the fight against climate change
Rainey takes part in a Sri Lankan parade in Lebanon.
Global Politics
A Sri Lankan girl living in Lebanon isn’t really a citizen of either country
Best friends Ryan and Noor are an unlikely match. He belongs to a religious sect called the Druze, and she is a Sunni Muslim. Kids from different religious groups don't normally hang out in Lebanon, let alone become inseparable friends.
Global Politics
An unlikely pair in Lebanon team up in hopes of creating change
Ahmad and his dad at Hoops, an indoor basketball school made possible by a Lebanese NGO called Nawaya.
Sports
Why an NGO wants this Lebanese boy to live his hoop dreams
Global Politics
This Syrian girl’s exile has stretched from weeks to years
The metal casing suspended from this cow's collar contains a chemical mixture that repels tstse flies.
Health
African farmers are saving their cows with some antelope cologne
Emilio Basilius of the Coral Reef Research Foundation holds up one of the hundreds of samples of marine organisms for the National Cancer Institute in the US.
Geo Quiz
Which Indo-Pacific island’s waters are host to potentially cancer-fighting molecules?
Healthy corals use chemical signals, or smells, to attract fish. New research has found that corals also send out "distress" signals when they're in trouble.
Environment
Coral reefs can communicate with fish, and many of them are crying for help
Bittersweet Nightshade
Bittersweet Nightshade
Small Matters: Emergence
Small Matters: Emergence