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Erica Gies
Erica is the author of Water Always Wins: Thriving in an age of drought and deluge, and an independent journalist who covers science and the environment from Victoria, British Columbia, and San Francisco, California. Her work appears in the New York Times, Scientific American, Nature, Ensia, The Economist, bioGraphic, National Geographic, and other outlets.
Featured Stories
Climate Science and the Case of the Missing Moisture
Expected air moisture is missing over drier areas worldwide, possibly because climate models undervalue the effects of plants and other life. This finding could be a fingerprint of human-caused land degradation, which would underscore calls to solve climate, biodiversity and water availability together.
Nature · Biodiversity Climate Change Water
More than Carbon Sticks
The concept that planting trees will help mitigate climate change by storing CO2 is too simplistic, ignoring the large effect that plants have on the water cycle. Careful restoration of native plant ecosystems can rebalance that cycle, further mitigating climate change while also reducing flood and drought.
Scientific American · Biodiversity Conservation Slow Water
To Revive a River, Restore Its Hidden Gut
Radical reconstruction in Seattle is bringing nearly dead urban streams
back to life
Scientific American · Adaptation Nature-Based Solutions Slow Water
The Radical Groundwater Storage Test
New tactics for capturing floods and surviving droughts could help communities across California and the world.
Scientific American · Adaptation Nature-Based Solutions Slow Water Water
Sponge City Revolution
Restoring natural water flows in cities can lessen the impacts of floods and droughts.
Scientific American · Biodiversity Science
The Meaning of Lichen
How a naturalist’s observations in the wilds of British Columbia inspired a scientist to discover hidden symbioses—overturning 150 years of accepted scientific wisdom.
bioGraphic · Biodiversity Conservation
Patience, Peace and Persian Leopards
Despite myriad threats, two Kurdish scientists in Iraq are fighting to create a peace park in the heart of the Middle East.
Nature · Adaptation Climate Change Nature-Based Solutions Slow Water
Fortresses of Mud
Rising seas threaten the San Francisco Bay Area, home to one of the largest estuaries in North America. But marsh-restoration efforts could hold back the high water.
bioGraphic · Biodiversity Conservation Environmental Justice Food Indigenous Water
Hawaii’s Ancient Aquaculture Revival
In an ocean state that now imports half of its seafood, a determined group of activists is restoring the age-old aquaculture practices of Native Hawaiians.
Nature · Economics Energy Water
The Real Cost of Energy
All energy production has environmental and societal effects. But calculating them — and pricing energy accordingly — is no easy task.
TakePart · Adaptation Nature-Based Solutions Slow Water Water
Coca-Cola Leaves It to Beavers to Fight the Drought
The soft-drink giant is deploying the dam-building animals to replenish groundwater supplies.
Hakai magazine · Environmental Justice Food Indigenous Oceans Policy
First Nations Test the Political Water with Fish Farm Protests
First Nations’ occupations of fish farms are rooted in a deeper conversation about Indigenous land rights.
