Alanna Mitchell is a journalist, author, and playwright who specializes in science. She turned her best-selling non-fiction book, Sea Sick, into a one-woman play that she performs internationally. Her fifth book, The Spinning Magnet, about the Earth’s magnetic field, was published this year by Dutton.
Articles by Alanna Mitchell
- Screen Saver? (March 2019)
Questioning routine mammograms - Power-hungry humans (January 2018)
Vaclav Smil and Chris Turner on the millennia-old story of energy - The “Mindbomb” That Was Greenpeace (December 2004)
A review of Rex Weyler’s Greenpeace: How a Group of Ecologists, Journalists and Visionaries Changed the World and Robert Hunter’s The Greenpeace to Amchitka: An Environmental Odyssey - An Undersea Catastrophe (September 2005)
A review of A Stain upon the Sea: West Coast Salmon Farming, by Stephen Hume, Alexandra Morton, Betty C. Keller, Rosella M. Leslie, Otto Langer and Don Staniford, Salmon Wars: The Battle for the West Coast Salmon Fishery, by Dennis Brown, and Atlas of Pacific Salmon: The First Map-Based Status Assessment of Salmon in the North Pacific, by Xanthippe Augerot - A Brilliant Attack (November 2013)
An essay - A Dark Dystopia (October 2012)
A review of The Energy of Slaves: Oil and the New Servitude, by Andrew Nikiforuk - Joy in Battle (December 2011)
A review of This Crazy Time: Living Our Environmental Challenge, by Tzeporah Berman with Mark Leiren-Young - Green Menace (September 2008)
A review of The Algal Bowl: Overfertilization of the World’s Freshwaters and Estuaries, by David W. Schindler and Jack R. Vallentyne - Prophets of an Unknown Future (July–August 2006)
A review of Terry Glavin’s Waiting for the Macaws and Other Stories from the Age of Extinctions and Wayne Grady’s Bringing Back the Dodo: Lessons in Natural and Unnatural History