Three WordPressers Making a Splash

It always makes us happy to hear about the achievements of writers, photographers, and artists who choose WordPress.com as their home on the web. Today, let s celebrate recent exciting news from Gaia Vince, Max Becherer, and Rolli. A writer with a message Science writer and editor Gaia Vince has chronicled her travels around the world on her blog, Wandering Gaia. The resulting book, Adventures in the Anthropocene: A Journey to the Heart of the Planet We Made, is an absorbing (and chilling) account of the ways in which humans are rapidly transforming the environment often for the worse. Earlier this fall, Adventures in the Anthropocene won the prestigious Royal Society Winton Prize for Science Books, bringing Vince s work, along with the important topics she covers, back to the spotlight. She joins a list of illustrious past winners, including Stephen Hawking, Stephen Jay Gould, and Jared Diamond. Going underground in Afghanistan Photojournalist Max Becherer has been covering wa
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