Annie Roth

Save the microbes? The world’s smallest species may soon get protections. Researchers are calling for the conservation of teeny tiny organisms that normally get overlooked, and conservationists are listening.

TL;DR: Shout out to microbes, our tiny, invaluable allies!

Learn how scientists plan to protect them in my latest for Nat Geo
www.nationalgeographic.com/science/arti...

Idk who runs the @amnh.org social but they are crushing it.

This moment from our latest episode with science writer @edyong209.bsky.social is 🔥

We asked Ed — how do we talk up the benefits of science in the face of government cuts? He told us that's the wrong approach. 🧪

Listen wherever, or watch on Spotify 👇

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I’m not a scientist but I wanna know what those birds are up to. Please let me know when you have papers coming out.

This animal has a built-in taser to stun sharks Electric rays are staying out of the stomachs of sharks by shocking them—with up to 200 volts.

#DidYouKnow some electric rays can emit over 200 volts to fend off predators like tiger sharks? This effective self-defense strategy highlights the incredible adaptations of marine life.

Dive into the topic with @annieroth.bsky.social : www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/arti...

This is so up my alley!

Awesome! Do you have any pics to supplement your study?

That’d be great!

Hey biologists and ecologists! I'm a science journalist looking for recently-published and/or soon-to-be-published studies to cover! If you've got one, please send it my way!

How former foes worked together to help save these rare giraffes To move giraffes in Kenya from a flooding island to a safe new home, onetime enemies cooperated—and built a modern-day ark.

In Kenya, the Pokot & Ilchamus communities set aside years of conflict to rescue endangered Rothschild’s giraffes stranded by flooding.🦒 Their collaboration created a safe sanctuary to save these majestic animals. 🧪🌏

Full story w/ @annieroth.bsky.social 

These tarantulas may have evolved huge genitalia to fend off bloodthirsty females Tarantulas, like all spiders, don’t have penises; they have palps. And these ones are massive.

"Finding large-sized spiders with such bold behavior and such unique features, that doesn’t happen every day," our author @alirezazamani.bsky.social told @annieroth.bsky.social of National Geographic.

A great juicy story to complement his ZooKeys paper!

www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/arti...

Great reporting!

Trump Wants a New Border Wall. It Would Block a Key Wildlife Corridor.

A Trump administration plan to build 25 miles of wall along a remote stretch of rolling grasslands and mountains on the Arizona-Mexico border would block one of the largest and most important remaining wildlife corridors on the state’s border with Mexico.

www.nytimes.com/2025/07/31/c...

Loved this episode so much!

It’s Time for Nature’s Fire Brigade - bioGraphic When it comes to restoring land and preventing wildfires, some animals—like pangolins—have a lot to offer. Can helping them help us?

"But as a slew of recent studies show, animals have the potential to make our increasingly scorched planet more resilient—if we let them."

Read the rest of:

It’s Time for Nature’s Fire Brigade by @annieroth.bsky.social

www.biographic.com/its-time-for...

😳🙇🏻‍♀️

Videos From the Amazon Reveal an Unexpected Animal Friendship

Loving this dynamic duo!

www.nytimes.com/2025/07/15/s...

Fabulous story by @clarissabrincat.bsky.social

Nom nom nom.

Oregon has passed the 1st bill protecting beavers in degraded watersheds on federal lands.

All trapping on public land should be banned, but by highlighting the ability of beavers to restore waterways & rewild ecosystems, it can at least be a start for other areas.

westernlaw.org/oregon-lawma...

Stills from a film I made when I was 8. Needs a sequel tbh

I spoke with Dustin Mulvaney about losing two grants studying Moss Landing, and who gets hurt:

Every U.S. government Instagram account seems to be posting about deep-sea mining today, from USGS to NOAA. I feel like I'm taking crazy pills

These Apes Are Matriarchal, but It Doesn’t Mean They’re Peaceful Females reign supreme in bonobo society by working together to keep males in their place.

I support women’s rights AND wrongs. My latest for @nytimes.com

www.nytimes.com/2025/04/24/s...

Thanks Neil! The stars have finally aligned 💫

My first film, Hellbent, is finally online for free! www.hellbentfilm.com/the-film

This is the story of ordinary people who refused to stay silent—who challenged power, rewrote the rules, and stood up for their land, their health, and their future—because no one else was going to do it for them.

Go Inside a Mexican Wolf Recovery Project Whose Future Is Now Uncertain The critically endangered Mexican wolf was mounting a comeback, thanks to a conservation program that dropped fostered wolf pups into wild dens. Then politics happened.

This is a lovely video about a project that supports Mexican wolf populations in the US: 🧪 www.scientificamerican.com/video/go-ins...

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It’s Time for Nature’s Fire Brigade - bioGraphic When it comes to restoring land and preventing wildfires, some animals—like pangolins—have a lot to offer. Can helping them help us?

Pangolins! Beavers! Bison! Lyre-birds! All of them can help us reduce the impact of wildfires... if only we'd let them.

Story by @annieroth.bsky.social for @biographic.bsky.social! 🧪🦊🦉

www.biographic.com/its-time-for...

It's incredible what animals can do if we just let them, instead of fighting nature every step of the way.

It’s Time for Nature’s Fire Brigade

When it comes to restoring land and preventing wildfires, some animals—like pangolins—have a lot to offer. Can helping them help us?

by @annieroth.bsky.social

www.biographic.com/its-time-for...