Douglas Main is a freelance journalist covering wildlife, science, nature, and a range of environmental issues. He often concentrates on two main areas: wildlife & biodiversity, and environmental health. His writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Atlantic, Scientific American, WaPo, Hakai Magazine, MIT Technology Review, The New Lede, and The Guardian, among others. 

Recent accomplishments include being the first to report on the accumulation of micro- and nanoplastics in the brain, for The New Lede and The Guardian; writing two cover stories for MIT Technology Review; and being a finalist in the Jackson Wild Media Awards for his short video about Canada geese.

He was formerly a staff editor and senior writer with National Geographic, which provided the opportunity to report throughout the country — from covering mining impacts in Alaska, to moth-eating grizzlies in Montana; from Florida panther conservation in the Sunshine state, to exotic wildlife ranches in Texas.

An Illinois native, Doug is now based between Ithaca, NY and Tucson, AZ. When he’s not writing, he can be found playing basketball, painting, or hiking. He nurses an obsession with propagating his every-growing menagerie of plants and could talk for hours about birds, bonsai, or college basketball.