Updated 8-14-2020. Let me know if any wonderful publications are left out of this informally assembled list. Scroll down for links to forums.
• Aeon ("a sanctuary online for serious thinking")
• Ars Technica
• Cosmos (the science of everything)
• Ag Insider (Food and Environment Reporting Network)
• Cosmos
• Discover
• Environmental Health News (EHN, publisher of several newsletters: (Above the Fold, The Daily Climate, Good News, Plastic Pollution, Children’s Health, Energy & Health, Science Saturday, The Weekend Reader, Population Weekly, Pittsburgh Weekly)
• Food and Environment Reporting Network (FERN, publishes Ag Insider)
• Food Dive (See also BioPharma Dive, Construction Dive, Education Dive, Healthcare Dive, MedTech Dive, Restaurant Dive, Smart Cities Dive, Social Media Today, Utility Dive, Waste Dive)
• GreenBiz Featured columns. See also webcasts and Video
• JSTOR
• Massive Science (New science stories every week, written by scientists themselves)
• Mosaic Longform stories about science and health. (Closed 12-10-19). No longer publishing but archive still available under Creative Commons license.
• National Geographic Magazine
• Nature (an esteemed and heavily cited science journal)
• Nautilus (each issue on a special topic, backed by Howard Hughes Medical Institute)
• New Scientist (realistic news reporting, from UK)
• Newswise
• Politico
• Pro Publica (Journalism in the Public Interest) Read More