Nathan Rott
Nathan (Nate) Rott is a correspondent on NPR's Science Desk, where he reports on the natural world and humanity's relationship to it.
Since coming to NPR in 2013, Rott has worked on the network's National Desk and Climate Desk, covering the American West, natural disasters, mass shootings, sports, politics and international climate talks. He also contributed to NPR's coverage of the war in Ukraine.
Before becoming a full-time journalist, Rott worked as a wildland firefighter, commercial fisherman, children's theater teacher, and snow shoveler for the U.S. Antarctic Program. He's shoveled a lot of snow.
Rott can be reached via encrypted message on the Signal app at nrott.87.
Content
- This week in science: A new black hole star, exercises for dementia, and winter shrews
- Egyptian warrior princesses, ancient avocados, and more science news
- Trump nominates former Oklahoma state trooper to head ICE
- Critical fire weather complicates firefighting efforts in massive Utah wildfire
- A new study rewrites the history of the plague
- What teeth enamel tells us about ancient human diets
- Inside the effort to save one of America's most imperiled salamanders
- A Pacific marine heat wave is wreaking havoc on sea birds