Category: Animals

• A New Wildlife Bridge in the Sydney Region Helps Quolls, Koalas, Wombats and More- for Mongabay

  I haven’t written about wildlife in awhile (since pre-book days!) and it was fun to jump back into it for this story, my first for Mongabay, and my first Australia-based story as well. The story covers all the details about Cawley’s Wildlife Bridge south of Sydney, which was specially designed for arboreal animals (and land-traveling…

  Starre Vartan

  June 6, 2026

  Adventures, Animals, wildlife

  australia, koala, mongabay, quoll, sydney, wildlife, wildlife crossing, wombat

• For The Daily Beast: IVF Might Bring Baby Coral Back to the Florida Keys

  “When I was 7 years old, I traveled to the Florida Keys with my grandmother and learned to snorkel, spending most of the day, every day, for over a week, peering down at countless corals bursting in indescribable shapes and glorious colors. Nearly 30 years later, I returned to the same beaches, eager to strap…

  Starre Vartan

  November 24, 2017

  Animals, Climate, Science Writing

  climate change, coral, florida, florida keys, ivf, science