
Eliza Barclay
Former Science and Health Editor
Eliza Barclay oversaw Vox.com’s health, science, energy, and environment coverage. She led the team of writers, photographers, and editors that received an Online Journalism Association award, a Scripps Howard award, a North American Digital Media award, a National Press Club honorable mention, and a Pictures of the Year International award in 2020 for the Supertrees project on tropical forests and deforestation. In 2019, she and other Vox staff were finalists for the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine Communications Award for a project on the mysteries of weight loss.
Formerly she was a reporter and editor at NPR, and most recently edited the food blog, The Salt. As an editor of The Salt, she received a James Beard Award, a Gracie Award, and an Association of Food Journalists Award. She’s been a fellow with the International Reporting Project, the Metcalf Institute for Marine and Environmental Reporting, and the International Women’s Media Foundation.
Latest articles by Eliza Barclay


“Letting go is also the practice of letting in, letting your teacher be alive in you,” says a senior disciple of the celebrity Buddhist monk and author.


From climate change policy to clean energy technology, these episodes focus on ways to solve the environmental crisis.

Why a reporting initiative on the science, politics, and economics of an ecological catastrophe is so badly needed.

More people in the US are hospitalized with the coronavirus than at any other time this year.


Every energy reduction we can make is a gift to future humans, and all life on Earth.


Reinfections so far appear to be rare — and immunity is complex.


A face mask might have protected Trump, his staff, and the people around them from the coronavirus.


The state’s weather is becoming warmer and more volatile due to climate change. And there are more people and buildings.


Why this storm could bring life-threatening flooding.


With daily cases, hospitalizations, and deaths still on the rise, the coronavirus pandemic is not slowing down in the US.