Dino Grandoni

Washington, D.C.

Reporter covering wildlife, biodiversity and other climate and environmental issues

Education: Columbia University, BA in economics and political science; Columbia University, MA in science journalism

Dino Grandoni is a reporter covering wildlife, biodiversity and other climate and environmental issues. He is the author of Animalia, a column exploring the strange and fascinating world of animals and the ways in which we appreciate, imperil and depend on them. Previously, he covered the Environmental Protection Agency and was the author of a daily tipsheet on energy and environmental policy, The Energy 202. Before joining The Post, he worked for BuzzFeed News and Huffington Post and was a reporting fellow at the New York Times and the Atlantic. He also co-wrote a series on ExxonMobil’s early
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This word was rejected by geologists. But it’s already taken over the world.

A panel of scientists rejected the term “Anthropocene” to describe a period in which humans have profoundly impacted the environment — but others keep using it.

June 10, 2024

What dead flowers tell us about the future of life on Earth

Amid an extinction crisis, dried plant collections capture how the world is changing. But Duke University is planning to shut down its world-renowned herbarium.

June 8, 2024

How cockroaches came to rule the world

A team of scientists has found that, without humans, the most pervasive species of cockroach probably wouldn’t exist.

May 20, 2024
The German cockroach (Blattella germanica), or Croton bug, on a slice of bread.

Mosquitoes are swarming around Houston. The future could bring even more.

After flood-inducing rain pummeled much of Texas, residents are enduring another inundation — of mosquitoes.

May 18, 2024
A mosquito lands on a child at a park in Roman Forest, Tex., north of Houston, on Thursday.

Bishop vanished. His species can still be saved.

This young whale survived a harrowing journey that has killed so many of his species. It wasn’t enough.

May 11, 2024

Life boomed on Earth half a billion years ago. You can thank magnets.

The near collapse of Earth’s magnetic field coincided with a spike in oxygen levels and a boom in biodiversity, according to a new study.

May 6, 2024
A rendering of Ediacaran Period life and an aurora with a weakened magnetic field. (Michael Osadciw/University of Rochester)

Fish are shrinking around the world. Here’s why scientists are worried.

With billions of people depending on seafood for protein, determining the answer has big implications.

May 4, 2024

Has the U.S. really conserved a third of its waters? Here’s the math.

The White House said initial estimates show the country is meeting a key marine conservation goal as ocean advocates warn against including areas where fishing is allowed.

April 19, 2024
A lobsterman steers his boat out into the Gulf of Maine to check on traps.

Can scientists clone an endangered species back from the brink of extinction?

Federal officials announced that they have cloned two more black-footed ferrets, one of North America’s rarest mammals.

April 17, 2024

The unassuming material that could soak up carbon emissions

Researchers want to use the ultrafine rock particles left by eroding glaciers — called “rock flour” — to suck climate-warming carbon from the air.

April 6, 2024
Glacier flour is on the mountain where ice has melted at the Ossoue glacier on the Vignemale peak in the French Pyrenees in September 2021. The Ossoue glacier is the highest and largest glacier in the French Pyrenees. Specialists project its disappearance near 2050 due to climate change. (Matthieu Rondel/AFP via Getty Images)