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.
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President Trump nominated Lance Schroyer, a former Oklahoma state trooper, to direct Immigration and Customs Enforcement. The agency hasn't had a Senate-confirmed director since the Obama administration. -
Firefighters working on the nation's largest current wildfire, burning in southern Utah, are being challenged by historic weather conditions. Extreme wildfire behavior is expected to continue through the weekend. -
A new study looks at one of the most prolific pathogens in human history — the plague.
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Foundation species like coral, oysters and big trees are critical to their ecosystems, providing food and shelter. A new study finds their influence continues after their death.
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When a species is facing extinction, it takes an enormous human effort to stave it off. Case in point: the painstaking campaign to save the frosted flatwoods salamander. -
A long-term study of the world's largest known community of chimpanzees has documented a rare event: what the researchers describe as the primate equivalent of a "civil war." -
An unprecedented look at the birth of a sperm whale found that mother and calf were supported by other whales throughout the process. -
Seawalls are great at protecting property and people. A new nature-inspired seawall add-on is trying to make them better at protecting marine wildlife too. -
Archaeologists in Britain say they've found the earliest evidence of humans making fires anywhere in the world. The discovery moves our understanding of when humans started making fire back by 350,000 years. -
A new study finds that about half of the physical variation seen in modern dogs existed during the Stone Age.
