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Dayton Martindale

Freelance Writer

Dayton Martindale is a freelance writer and editor covering climate, ecology, animals, and politics, and a PhD student in environmental studies at the University of Colorado Boulder, where he studies the ethics, politics, and policy of human-nonhuman interaction.

He is the former associate editor of In These Times magazine, former editor-at-large for the rural news publication Barn Raiser, and host of Storytelling Animals, an environmental books podcast. His writing has appeared in Sierra, Boston Review, Strange Matters, Truthout, The Trouble, Jacobin, Harbinger, The Next System Project, Earth Island Journal, and elsewhere, and he is a contributor to the book Jackson Rising Redux: Lessons on Building the Future in the Present. Follow him @daytonrmartind.

Latest articles by Dayton Martindale

The US uses endangered monkeys to test drugs. This law could free them.
Future Perfect

Everything from Ozempic to Covid vaccines is tested on long-tailed macaques. Experts believe many are illegally trafficked from the wild.

By Dayton Martindale
Future Perfect
Bringing back woolly mammoths and dodos is a bad ideaBringing back woolly mammoths and dodos is a bad idea
Future Perfect

De-extinction isn’t worth the ethical cost.

By Dayton Martindale

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