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Anna Funk

Anna Funk

Anna Funk is an ecologist-turned-writer based in Kansas City, Missouri.

Iran's Lake Urmia, once one of the largest saltwater lakes in the world, is vanishing due to climate change.

Can Climate Fiction Writers Reach People in Ways That Scientists Can’t?

A new subgenre of science fiction leans on the expertise of biologists and ecologists to imagine a scientifically plausible future Earth