Nadia Drake

Nadia Drake is a contributing writer at National Geographic, where she covers everything from planets to animals to emerging jungle tribes. Before that, she was a science reporter at Wired, and before that, she was the astronomy reporter at Science News. Her bylines have also appeared in Nature, New Scientist, and BBC Earth, among others. Nadia earned a PhD from Cornell University (studying epigenetics) and a certificate in science communication from UC Santa Cruz. She loves spiders and frequently hits the road in search of stories and has reported from the jungles of Peru and Indonesian Borneo, Mars-on-Earth, a flying telescope, the deserts of the Middle East, and the shrinking, slumping glaciers at Mt. Kilimanjaro's summit.

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