Starre Vartan

About

Starre Vartan is a widely published science journalist, essayist, and author of The Stronger Sex: What Science Tells Us About the Power of the Female Body, a Library Journal Best Science Book in 2025. She's a dancer, ceramicist, trailrunner, wildswimmer, and explorer of planet Earth. Known online as The Curious Human, she's currently at work on her next book.

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Koalas typically climb into the upper reaches of trees to escape fire

Rescue networks built by fire: Saving animals from Australia’s bushfires

Starre Vartan 24 Aug 2026

Young male puma crosses a public road. The presence of pumas — aka cougars, mountain lions, etc. — push deer away from roads into less populated areas, reducing road collisions. Image by Nick Garbutt.

Cougars cut deadly vehicle-deer collisions in the US by up to 76%, study shows

Starre Vartan 19 Aug 2026

The Common wombat (Vombatus ursinus) frequents the western side of Cawleys Bridge, and it is hoped the bridge will reinforce the wombat population in Royal National Park. Image courtesy of Simone Cottrell / DCCEEW.

Above an Australian highway, a bridge reconnects wilderness for quolls, koalas and other animals

Starre Vartan 22 May 2026

News and Inspiration from Nature's Frontline.

Lionfish hunted

Koupi Experimental Elementary School, the first school where learning Siraya is mandatory, in Sinhua district, in Tainan, Taiwan, on Aug. 21, 2026. Image by Aylin Ho for Mongabay.

A chorten at a rice field in Bhutan.

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