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 Smithsonian, 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, a profile of a Buddhist monk turned conservationist, can be found here.

phil@philmckenna.com

 

Phil McKenna     Freelance writer