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About Janet Fang

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Janet Fang

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Janet has written for Nature, Discover, Conservation, CBS SmartPlanet, and the Point Reyes Light. She has master’s degrees in earth science and journalism from Columbia, where she sieved chalky fossilized ooze to study past climate change. Before that, she majored in biology and English at UC Berkeley, where she also learned to skin and stuff roadkill.

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