Author Archives

Huanjia Zhang

Huanjia Zhang

Huanjia Zhang is a science journalist and a new Baltimorean. He loves writing about agriculture, food and people. He also loves making dumplings from scratch.

Ellen is teaching knitting to a volunteer in her shop

A warm, fuzzy therapy

 Health
• January 20, 2022

Using knitting to heal, one stitch at a time

Two draft horses standing on grass in front of a pack of cows

Adding horsepower back to sustainable farming

 Environment
• January 17, 2022

Draft power is coming back for many young farmers, as a tool and as a lifestyle

Neill Holland holds a crab trap dipped in water and stands on a white boat

Chasing ‘ghosts’ in the bay

 Environment
• July 2, 2021

A Florida captain’s creative solution to the global problem of marine debris: Let’s rodeo 

Nikita Dhar standing in front of a building

International students face mental health challenges during the COVID-19 pandemic

 Health
• February 5, 2021

The crisis has exacerbated long-overlooked anxiety, depression and other mental health problems among this population

Davon Goodwin on his farm in Laurinburg, North Carolina

For Black farmers, climate change magnifies existing inequality

 Environment
• January 19, 2021

Global warming does not discriminate, but the system that prepares farmers for it does

Meat processed in a meat-processing facility

Go big or go home mentality leaves out small butchers and farmers

 Environment
• January 11, 2021

The pandemic has exposed and worsened deep-seated problems in a meat industry dominated by huge producers

Farm on the edge of northern Chesapeake Bay, with little vegetation buffer and riprap shoreline

For coastal farmers, climate change rubs salt in their wounds

 Environment
• December 23, 2020

Spurred by global warming and development, saltwater intrusion is a growing threat to coastal agriculture

 
Subscribe

The Scienceline Newsletter

Sign up for regular updates.