Elizabeth Devitt

Elizabeth Devitt

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Elizabeth Devitt is an independent science writer who draws on her first career on veterinary medicine to write about the inextricable links among animals, people, and the environment that must sustain us all. The ocean is her favorite place to be.

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Winter warming and rain extreme events pose overlooked threat to Arctic life

Elizabeth Devitt 2 May 2025
Polar bear mother with two cubs on a snowy sandbank in northern Alaska.

Polar sea ice continues steep decline; but will a troubled world notice?

Elizabeth Devitt 27 Mar 2025
A group of chinstrap penguins on pack ice on Seal Island in Antarctica.

Arctic sea ice hits summer minimum; Antarctic hovers at new winter lows

Elizabeth Devitt 24 Sep 2024
A multilayered lenticular cloud hovers near Mount Discovery, a volcano about 70 km (44 mi) southwest of McMurdo Station in Antarctica.

Polar warning: Warming temperatures mean more than melted ice

Elizabeth Devitt 27 May 2024
A poler bear.

Freeze on Russian collaboration disrupts urgently needed permafrost data flow

Elizabeth Devitt 20 Feb 2024
A domestic cat out in the wild.

Mating game: Survival of some small wildcats at risk due to housecat hybrids

Elizabeth Devitt 25 May 2023
Bluefins sizing up a school of anchovies.

Sea life may downsize with ocean warming — bringing challenging impacts

Elizabeth Devitt 3 Aug 2022
Giant kelp (Macrocystis pyrifera)

Scientists strive to restore world’s embattled kelp forests

Elizabeth Devitt 6 Jul 2022
A Royal Navy research vessel patrols Antarctica.

Robot revolution: A new real-time accounting system for ocean carbon

Elizabeth Devitt 18 Apr 2022

‘Tis the season’ for cold-stunned sea turtles — and their rescue — on Cape Cod

Elizabeth Devitt 6 Dec 2021

Sea turtles: Can these great marine migrators navigate rising human threats?

Elizabeth Devitt 20 Sep 2021

Field Notes: Pond turtle studies could help sea turtles survive toxic algal blooms

Elizabeth Devitt 8 Jun 2017

Field Notes: Reinvigorating wild parrot populations with captive birds

Elizabeth Devitt 17 May 2017

Field Notes: Finding Jacobo; an Andean cat captivates conservationists

Elizabeth Devitt 28 Feb 2017

The Spirit of the Steppes: Saving Central Asia’s saiga

Elizabeth Devitt 27 Feb 2017

Field Notes: Predicting how the pet trade spreads infectious disease

Elizabeth Devitt 13 Feb 2017

Protecting Marine Protected Areas

Elizabeth Devitt 1 Feb 2017

Fish for all? The fish-free fishmeal challenge

Elizabeth Devitt 10 Jan 2017

Restoring seagrass under siege

Elizabeth Devitt 2 Jan 2017

The lionfish invasion: A call to arms?

Elizabeth Devitt 14 Dec 2016

Field Notes: Boosting biodiversity by studying human values, gender

Elizabeth Devitt 1 Dec 2016

Field Notes: Mapping condor conservation strategies

Elizabeth Devitt 5 Oct 2016

Field Notes: Can we alter endangered species to be more adaptable?

Elizabeth Devitt 28 Sep 2016

Field Notes: Wooing wolverines with high-tech lures

Elizabeth Devitt 21 Sep 2016

Field Notes: Expedition to Cuba seeks out new and endemic species

Elizabeth Devitt 30 Aug 2016

Field Notes: Saving America’s last wild meat-eating Venus flytraps

Elizabeth Devitt 15 Aug 2016

Field Notes: Scientist seeks long-term stress trends in Africa’s hyenas

Elizabeth Devitt 3 Aug 2016

Disease prevention a boost to human health and great ape conservation

Elizabeth Devitt 21 Apr 2016

Madagascar scientists unsure how best to guard frogs from fungus

Elizabeth Devitt 30 Jan 2016

The Muriqui: Brazil’s critically endangered “hippie monkey” hangs tough

Elizabeth Devitt 12 Oct 2015

The 90 Percent Diet: reducing our environmental impact by eating less meat

Elizabeth Devitt 7 Aug 2014

Monkeys reset camera trap, capture first-ever images of flat-headed cats in park

Elizabeth Devitt 23 Jun 2014

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