Neel Dhanesha
Former Reporter
Neel Dhanesha covered science and climate change at Vox. He has written about artificial snow, an unexpected source of clean energy, post-Dobbs pregnancy complications, and the ubiquitous, unregulated source of plastic pollution known as nurdles.
Prior to Vox, Neel was an editorial fellow at Audubon magazine and an assistant producer at Radiolab, where he helped produce The Other Latif, a series about one detainee’s journey to Guantanamo Bay. He is a graduate of the Literary Reportage program at NYU, where he learned how to turn incoherent scribbles into readable stories, and his writing has appeared in Popular Science, TED Ideas, and the Harvard Review, among others.
Neel is from Bangalore and currently lives in Washington, DC. He tweets sporadically at @neel_dhan, and you can reach him at neel.dhanesha@vox.com.
Latest articles by Neel Dhanesha
People might be still trapped under debris in Morocco. Here’s how they could be saved.
Atmospheric rivers are dumping rain on California. That’s not a good thing.
The rocket finally launched, equipped with scientific experiments to test how deep space affects our bodies.
At the COP27 UN climate talks, Biden says America will put “our money where our mouth is.”
Climate change is pushing the power grid to the limit. Energy storage could help.
Researchers are using drones, AI, and digital recorders to create a “zoological version of Google Translate.”
Toxic landfills are emblems of environmental injustice across the US. Clean energy can remake them.
DALL-E and other models keep making art that ignores traditions from the rest of the world.
Blaming blackouts on wind and solar power totally misses the point.
Some heat waves are way worse than others. We need a way to rate them.