Alex Megerle
@alexmegerle.bsky.social
🐍 science communicator, creative writer, photographer/videographer 📖 Lehigh University '20 | MIT Graduate Program in Science Writing '26 📍nj
My latest for @mongabay.com digs into new research on how wildlife crime starts in Zambia. news.mongabay.com/2026/09/how-...
‘How did you come to be here?’ Study digs into origins of Zambian wildlife crime
The man in the Zambian prison recalled how he ended up there. He’d been approached by someone who had an uncle in the capital, Lusaka, who was willing to buy ivory and pangolin scales. He gave the man...
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The wildlife highlighted in my stories for @mongabay.com may have reached their cuteness zenith with this one 🐱 Researchers recently published the first systematic record of the sand cat in Qatar! Check it out: news.mongabay.com/2026/08/caug...
Caught on camera: Sand cats may have a ‘sizable population’ in Qatar
Muhammad Ali Nawaz didn’t expect to see so many cats. Nawaz, a wildlife ecologist at Qatar University, had set out to survey Qatar for the sand cat, a tiny, seldom-studied felid that lives in deserts ...
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A study on NYC’s free-roaming cats found over half carried zoonotic parasites, with young males shedding high volumes of parasitic eggs. To protect wildlife, pets, and humans, experts urge adding parasite surveillance and health checks to trap-neuter-return efforts. By @alexmegerle.bsky.social.
Some free-roaming cats in New York City are parasite “super-shedders,” study shows
If you’ve ever strolled through New York City and felt like there were a lot of cats strutting the streets, you weren’t wrong. No one knows exactly how many felines wander New York, but it’s a lot.…
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Continuing the "Alex gets to write about adorable animals for @mongabay.com" trend: I happily present the golden lion tamarin. news.mongabay.com/2026/07/rese...
Researchers find 'priority zones' for yellow fever vaccination of golden lion tamarins
After a two-hour drive from the airport in Rio de Janeiro, you reach a special park dedicated to a special animal in Brazil’s Atlantic Forest. There, you can take a guided tour through the green and p...
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If you like cute frogs and salamanders, check out my first story for @mongabay.com, which is all about tunnels to help amphibians safely cross roads 🐸🦎 news.mongabay.com/2026/07/why-...
Why a New England city is building tunnels to protect an imperiled salamander
NEW HAMPSHIRE, U.S. — It’s a mild March night in Keene, New Hampshire, and the salamander brigade is out in full force. A constellation of flashlight beams wink and flash along a dark street, as rain ...
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My latest story—a collab with my brilliant cohort-mate, Laura Martín Agudelo, and the awesome folks on the @apnews.com Climate & Environment team—explores a weather station in Massachusetts that still uses analog tools. Video: me + the sterling @joshuabickel.bsky.social apnews.com/article/weat...
One of America’s oldest weather observatories shows people the science behind our climate
At Blue Hill Observatory and Science Center, a weather station 15 miles south of Boston, staff and volunteers have been using many of the same tools to monitor the weather since it opened in 1885.
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My first piece for ICN! 🐸 Check out how researchers in New Jersey are tackling ranavirus.
Inside Climate News@insideclimatenews.org · 7mo ago15 years after a pathogen capable of killing amphibians en masse was first found in New Jersey, scientists are still unable to determine the cause of the ranavirus outbreaks and what the long-term consequences may be. But rising temperatures could be exacerbating the problem.
Seven journalists are headed to grad school as 2025 Taylor/Blakeslee Fellows! Each will receive $6,000, thanks to the Brinson Foundation. Congrats to Bridget Balch, Alonso Daboub, Rachel Duckett, @ashleydsouza.bsky.social, Ana Georgescu, @stellamayerhoff.bsky.social & Alex Megerle. bit.ly/tbs2526
The GPSW is thrilled to announce our incoming Class of 2026! Welcome Laura Martin Agudelo, Zoe Beketova, @ashleydsouza.bsky.social, Ana Georgescu, Jamie Jiang, Lucie McCormick, Alex Megerle, and Julia Vaz. You can read about our new cohort here: sciwrite.mit.edu/faculty-and-...
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