About me:  I’m freelance writer based in the People's Republics of Cambridge, MA and China.  

    I cover breaking news and write investigative features on energy and the environment as a correspondent for New Scientist magazine. You can also find my work in The New York Times, The Boston Globe, The San Francisco Chronicle, Audubon, National Wildlife, and Technology Review.

    As a reporter I’ve gone on migration  with whooping cranes across the US, hunted for novel genes off the Great Barrier Reef, and took in a solar eclipse from on top of the Great Wall of China.  One of my all time favorite stories, however, was of a paddle down the Wisconsin river with some college buddies. 

    I completed my masters in science writing at MIT and was a recent Middlebury Environmental Journalism Fellow.

One of my most recent stories, an interview with a Chinese dinosaur hunter, can be found here.

phil@philmckenna.com

 

Phil McKenna     Freelance writer