Media

Evolution in Human-Altered Environments

• Podcast: Naked Genetics: Should we hybridise endangered species? Is saving some genome better than saving none? (02/27/2024)
• Article: Hakai Magazine: Can Animals Evolve Fast Enough to Keep Up with Climate Change? Maybe (01/15/2024) – reprinted in Smithsonian Magazine
• Podcast: The Conversation: From radiation to water pollution to cities, humans are now a driver of evolution in the ‘natural’ world (10/27/2022)
• Article: The Guardian UK: Can cross-breeding protect endangered species from the climate emergency? (04/29/2022) Guardian UK.
• Podcast: Exposing Mold: How Species Overcome Polluted Environments with Drs. Andrew Whitehead, Tony Gill, and Nicole McNabb (Episode 49) (12/28/2021)
• Article: The Atlantic: This fish can withstand almost anything (03/15/2021)
• Article: Knowable Magazine: Pollution evolution: The little fish that could (05/2020)
• Article: Wired Magazine: How Cities Reshape the Evolutionary Path of Urban Wildlife (09/2019)
• Podcast: Science Magazine: The age-old quest for the color blue and why pollution is not killing the killifish (05/2019)
• Article: Gizmodo: This Fish Has Evolved to Thrive in Intensely Polluted Water (05/2019)
• Article: The New York Times: Rapid Evolution Saved This Fish From Pollution, Study Says (12/09/2016)
• Article: The Washington Post: These fish evolved to survive the most poisoned places in America (12/08/2016)
• Article: National Geographic: These Fish Evolved to Live in Extremely Toxic Water (12/08/2016)
• Article: CNBC: Why this fish adapts quickly to lethal levels of pollution (12/08/2016)

Oil Spill Ecotoxicology

• Video documentary: The Washington Post: California oil spill could affect marine life for years (10/14/2021)
• TV: MSNBC The Ed Show: Investigating the Link Between Health Issues and Oil Spills (02/20/2015)
• Article: CBS News: Five years on, Gulf still paying price for BP oil spill (04/20/2015)
• Article: National Geographic: How Oil Spills Can Literally Break Fish Hearts (04/16/2015)
• Article: Newsweek: BP Says Lab Studies Can’t Prove Spill’s Harm, but New Evidence Says They Can (09/10/2014)
• Article: CNN: Gulf oil a heartbreaker for bellwether fish (05/03/2013)
• Article: Los Angeles Times: Study: Gulf oil spill is sickening fish vital to seafood industry (05/02/2013)
• Article: Al Jazeera: Gulf seafood deformities alarm scientists (04/20/2012)
• U.S. Senate Proceedings: CSPAN: Senator Bill Nelson Presents Whitehead Lab Research Findings on the Floor of the United States Senate (starting around 1hr:50min) (10/11/2011)
• Article: ABC News: Gulf Shrimpers Still Reeling, Is BP Spill to Blame? (09/28/2011)
• Article: Scientific American: How Did the BP Oil Spill Affect Gulf Coast Wildlife? (04/20/2011)
• Article: The Wall Street Journal: BP Spill’s Next Major Phase: Wrangling Over Toll on Gulf (04/13/2011)
• Book: This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate – Naomi Klein: Andrew Whitehead interviewed and quoted in Chapter 13: The Right to Regenerate: Moving From Extraction to Renewal (published in 2015)