In August, Louisiana’s wildfires scorched over 60,000 acres, eight times the past decade’s annual average. Wildfire smoke plumes can travel up to thousands of miles from their source: earlier this summer, smoke from Canadian wildfires drifted as far down as the Bayou State. While previous studies have shown a correlation between wildfire smoke and suicide […]
Author Archives: Alex Ip
Born and raised in Hong Kong, Alex is the Founder and Editor in Chief of The Xylom, a Gen-Z-led newsroom exploring the communities influencing and shaped by science. He also recently led a team to translate the KSJ Science Editing Handbook into Chinese (Traditional and Simplified). Alex is pursuing a Master's degree in Science Writing from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology; he holds a bachelor’s degree in Environmental Engineering from Georgia Tech.