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Bianca Nogrady is a freelance science journalist and broadcaster whose work has appeared in The Saturday Paper, MIT Technology Review, Nature, The Guardian, Wired UK, the BMJ, Ensia, Australian Geographic, Medicine Today, Australian Doctor, Scientific American, The Australian, and on the ABC and BBC websites. She has spoken, chaired and been a member of panels at events such as the Sydney Festival of Dangerous Ideas; the Sydney, Brisbane and Byron Bay Writers Festivals; the ABARES Outlook conference; and the Australian Bushfire Building Conference. Bianca is also a regular guest on radio talking about science and medicine. Bianca was Founding President of the Science Journalists Association of Australia from 2019-2023, Secretary of the International Science Writers Association in 2017 and Vice-President of the Australian Science Communicators from 2015-2017. She is also Chair of the board of Varuna - the Writers House at Katoomba - previously Treasurer, and a Certified Community Director by the Institute of Community Directors Australia. Bianca is author of Climate Change: How We Can Get To Carbon Zero, published by Penguin Random House and Wired UK. She is editor of the 2015 and 2019 Best Australian Science Writing anthologies, published by New South Publishing (https://www.newsouthbooks.com.au/books/best-australian-science-writing-2015/). She is also the author of The End: The Human Experience of Death (Random House Australia, May 2013) - a book that attempts to answer the question 'what is death like?' - and co-author of The Sixth Wave (Random House Australia, 2010) - a book on how to succeed in a resource-limited world. She is represented by Kurestin Armada of P.S. Literary Agency.
Bianca is a freelance science journalist and broadcaster, writing regularly for outlets including The Saturday Paper, the Guardian, Nature and WIRED. Her work has appeared in MIT Technology Review, Undark, Ensia, Scientific American, The Australian, Australian Geographic, Medicine Today, Australian Doctor, and on the ABC and BBC websites. She has spoken, chaired and been a member of panels at events such as the Sydney Festival of Dangerous Ideas; the Sydney, Brisbane and Byron Bay Writers' Festivals; the ABARES Outlook conference; and the Council on the Ageing’s ‘Let’s Talk About Dying’ forum.
The everything-you-need-to-know WIRED guide to climate change Man-made global warming is advancing inexorably. Are there ways to halt it? In this invaluable, one-stop guide Bianca Nogrady analyses the science of climate change and offers a concise overview of the ways in which our carbon emissions might be reduced. She examines the challenges posed by food and energy production and the cutting-edge technologies that could mitigate their polluting effects. She looks at initiatives to create green industry and transport. She explains the economics of emissions trading schemes and the practicalities of geoengineering plans to trap greenhouse gases. And she addresses the fundamental question- is it possible to safeguard our future before it's too late?
We will all die, eventually. What it will be like? The End explores the experience of death from every angle - the physiological, the philosophical, the spiritual - to answer that question we so often ponder but rarely ask; what is it like to die? Published in May 2013 by Random House Australia.
THE SIXTH WAVE is a business book, a motivational book, a bold prediction and a roadmap to the future. It is for anyone interested in understanding how the next wave of innovation will change our lives, and how to succeed in a resource-limited world. www.sixthwave.org
Board member and Treasurer of the Eleanor Dark Foundation, which operates Varuna, The Writers House in Katoomba.
The Science Journalists Association of Australia aims to support and foster the professional interests of practising and aspiring science journalists in Australia, and to champion and advocate for independence and excellence in science journalism.