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Olive Heffernan

Olive Heffernan

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Science Journalist, Freelance

Dublin

Biography

I’m an award-winning science journalist and author of THE HIGH SEAS: AMBITION, POWER AND GREED ON THE UNCLAIMED OCEAN (2024). My work has been published in Nature, WIRED, National Geographic, Guardian, Scientific American, Salon and BBC Wildlife, among other outlets. Now freelance, I spent several years as an online editor with Nature covering climate change before founding the research journal Nature Climate Change in 2009. In 2019, I joined the faculty of Johns Hopkins University as an adjunct lecturer, and in 2020 I received a Giles St Aubyn Award for non-fiction from the Royal Society of Literature in the UK. I live by the sea in Ireland with my husband and children and spend my spare time cold-water swimming, paddle-boarding and kayaking. Learning to surf!

Final Covers

Climate Change , Oceans

Doesn’t Cover

Sport, religion.

Seniority Positions

Medium Formats

Content

Total articles 64

  • Miners are desperate to excavate the pristine deep ocean. Could Trump help them?

    By Olive Heffernan · Prospect Magazine

    Feb. 14, 2025

  • Europe’s oldest marine reserve, located in County Cork, is in decline. What’s going on?

    By Olive Heffernan · TheJournal.ie

    Nov. 21, 2024

  • For the Love of a Little Sea | Hakai Magazine

    By Olive Heffernan, Grant Callegari · hakaimagazine.com

    Nov. 21, 2024

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Company Info

Freelance

De Pere, Wisconsin, United States