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Meryl Phair

Meryl Phair

Meryl Phair is a graduate student in the Magazine & Digital Storytelling Program at NYU. She is a Science Writing Fellow for the NYU Center for Data Science and covers local environmental stories for Straus News Manhattan. Her recent writing has included splooting squirrels, the dirt on city compost, and sleeping with wolves.

Two hands with grey fingerless gloves hold up the ridged underside of a white oyster mushroom

A mushroom walk on Staten Island

 Environment
• March 18, 2023

The New York Mycological Society is a “mushroom club for anyone”

A photograph of the activist/artist Sarah Cameron Sunde in a red wind breaker, standing on the beach in her climate change performance.

The transformative power of environmental art

 Environment
• October 14, 2022

Sarah Cameron Sunde’s performance art contemplates our interconnection with nature

 
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