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Author of "Water Always Wins," National Geographic, Explorer, TEDx speaker, independent journalist for Scientific American, Nature, NYT, the Atlantic, bioGraphic, and others. Fan of critters, plants, democracy, kindness.

Joined July 2023

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ICE out San Francisco

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Erica Gies / SlowWater.world handle.invalid · Jan 29
Most human cultures believe nature is good for us. Now scientists are studying biochemical compounds emitted by plants to protect themselves from insects, bacteria, protozoa and fungi -- which seem to be protective medicine for people too. My story for Nature Outlook: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
How ‘forest bathing’ keeps lungs healthy

Wooded environments release organic compounds that seem to improve respiratory health, but the magnitude and mechanism of the effect remains unclear.

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis kendrawrites.com · Jan 21
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californiacurated californiacurated.bsky.social · Jan 21
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Erica Gies / SlowWater.world handle.invalid · Jan 21
The word "scrumptious" is icky. It gives me the ick. Do you have a word that makes your skin crawl?

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Prof. Ian Walker ianwalker.bsky.social · Jan 20
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Erica Gies / SlowWater.world handle.invalid · Jan 21
Thanks for sharing, @nearlywild.bsky.social !
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Erica Gies / SlowWater.world handle.invalid · Jan 19
Good story by @katiesurma.bsky.social @insideclimatenews.org about a key factor in Iran's unrest: environmental degradation: insideclimatenews.org/news/1401202...
Iran’s Regime Has Survived War, Sanctions and Uprising. Environmental Crises May Bring It Down. - Inside Climate News

Decades of water depletion, dam building and repression of scientists and environmentalists have driven Iran toward ecological crises that are fueling protests rocking the country.

insideclimatenews.org

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Daniel Benneworth-Gray danielgray.com · Jan 19
COW TOOLS COW TOOLS COW TOOLS
Back-scratching bovine leads scientists to reassess intelligence of cows

Brown Swiss in Austria has been discovered using tools in multiple ways – something only ever seen in humans and chimpanzees

theguardian.com

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climateconnections climateconnections.bsky.social · Jan 16
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Erica Gies / SlowWater.world handle.invalid · Jan 11
The Case of the Disappearing Lake: by @selenaross.bsky.social This fascinating story of a lake that disappeared seemingly overnight features hydrologist Younes Alila. The culprit was likely logging. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
Quebec’s Lake Rouge vanished – but was it a freak natural event or caused by human actions?

Experts and community trying to untangle mystery of outburst that saw water travel almost 10km overland into a bigger lake

theguardian.com

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Erica Gies / SlowWater.world handle.invalid · Jan 11
Younes Alila is a UBC hydrologist doing really interesting work linking logging to landslides, floods, and fires.
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Erica Gies / SlowWater.world handle.invalid · Jan 11
This is a great film. Logging leads to fire and floods.
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Robert Reich rbreich.bsky.social · Jan 11
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Possum Every Hour possumeveryhour.io · Jan 6
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Eoghan Daltun 🌍 irishrainforest.bsky.social · Jan 4
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Missing The Point missingthept.bsky.social · Dec 22, 2025
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Anna Bower annabower.bsky.social · Dec 22, 2025
Per NY Times’s Michael Grynbaum on X, this is Sharyn Alfonsi’s email to her “60 Minutes” colleagues in full:

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The Bulwark thebulwark.com · Dec 17, 2025
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Prof. Eliot Jacobson climatecasino.net · Dec 17, 2025
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Erica Gies / SlowWater.world handle.invalid · Dec 16, 2025
The audio book is half off, should you or yours be into that sort of thing! www.audiobooks.com/promotions/p...
50% OFF Water Always Wins: Thriving in an Age of Drought and Deluge

Nearly every human endeavor on the planet was conceived and constructed with a relatively stable climate in mind. But as new climate disasters remind us every day, our world is not stable&#8212;an...

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Erica Gies / SlowWater.world handle.invalid · Dec 15, 2025
Two of my childhood cats, Cajdi and Khanly, sisters, posing in a ‘70s Sears-style family photo shoot.

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Erica Gies / SlowWater.world handle.invalid · Dec 13, 2025
Wow, as if working journalists and the public trust/democracy weren't suffering death by a thousand cuts. This seems to be a chilling death knell. By @nickhunebrown.bsky.social @thelocal.to thelocal.to/investigatin...
Investigating a Possible Scammer in Journalism’s AI Era | The Local

A suspicious pitch from a freelancer led editor Nicholas Hune-Brown to dig into their past work. By the end, four publications, including The Guardian and Dwell, had removed articles from their sites.

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Erica Gies / SlowWater.world handle.invalid · Dec 12, 2025
How fun is this? www.booooooom.com/2017/01/22/p...
Photographer Daniel Ranalli Spends Two Decades Capturing Snail Trails

“Spiral #9” (1996)   Massachusetts-based photographer Daniel Ranalli has spent more than 20 years on his "Snail Drawings," a series …

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Erica Gies / SlowWater.world handle.invalid · Dec 4, 2025
De-paving Paradise: To prevent urban flooding, don't forget to look outside the city. That's the strategy I explored for Nature Outlook, featuring San Jose, Calif.'s, conservation of Coyote Valley and Milwaukee's Green Seams program to conserve wetlands. www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Cities are embracing nature for flood defence

As losses owing to flooding rise, some urban centres are ditching the concrete and making space for natural wetlands.

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Erica Gies / SlowWater.world handle.invalid · Nov 28, 2025
Hear, hear!
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Erica Gies / SlowWater.world handle.invalid · Nov 28, 2025
Thank you, East Bay Regional Park District for a trend I can get behind: Green Friday, a shopping alternative in which you simply enjoy the beautiful outdoors: Story by Chase Hunter www.mercurynews.com/2025/11/27/e...
East Bay regional parks open for free as shopping alternative on ‘Green Friday’

The East Bay Regional Park District will waive all entrance and park use fees on Friday — including parking, boat launching and fishing, in addition to access to Ardenwood Historic Farm &#821…

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Erica Gies / SlowWater.world handle.invalid · Nov 19, 2025
Snaps from an epic weekend speaking at TEDx Boston Planet Action at MIT's Kresgy Auditorium, where I met so many brilliant people. Special thanks to family members who came to support me and to the incredible organizers and coaches, Alison Sander, Davey Bakhshi, Caty Byerly Rezendes, & John Werner.

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Erica Gies / SlowWater.world handle.invalid · Nov 15, 2025
I’m speaking TODAY! At 1:30 or thereabouts. I’m so excited to be here with so many brilliant, interesting people. If you’re in Boston, come on down! I don’t think you even need a ticket.
- Erica Gies / SlowWater.world handle.invalid · Oct 30, 2025
  🌍 Join me at #PlanetAction — a festival of the future. Nov 15–17 | Cambridge, MA 3 days of breakthrough ideas in biodiversity, energy, and planetary intelligence. 🔬Turn insights into action FREE TICKETS → luma.comideas-in-action TEDxBoston | MIT Kresge Hall | New England Aquarium
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🌍 Join me at #PlanetAction — a festival of the future. Nov 15–17 | Cambridge, MA 3 days of breakthrough ideas in biodiversity, energy, and planetary intelligence. 🔬Turn insights into action FREE TICKETS → luma.comideas-in-action TEDxBoston | MIT Kresge Hall | New England Aquarium

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Erica Gies / SlowWater.world handle.invalid · Oct 28, 2025
😮 indeed!
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Erica Gies / SlowWater.world handle.invalid · Oct 27, 2025
Melanie Winter @whaddaworld.bsky.social was a visionary, and fierce, with a mind like a microfiche of all the city reports that have ever been. RIP, Melanie, I'm so glad I had a chance to know you. @ianjames.bsky.social, what a lovely obit. www.latimes.com/environment/...
Melanie Winter, who fought for embracing nature along the Los Angeles River, dies

Melanie Winter led efforts to embrace nature along the L.A. River, touting the potential for a restored river to heal the city's relationship to water. She was 67.

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Timothy Snyder timothysnyder.bsky.social · Oct 24, 2025
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