
EcoWatch
EcoWatch has two immediate openings at its Cleveland-based office to run its two new verticals, EcoProducts and EcoLiving. We are looking for candidates who have more than three (3) years experience in the online news media marketplace with at least three (3) years experience as managing editor or equivalent to manage and edit the new verticals that will launch early fall.
Manager/Editor EcoProducts Vertical
The candidate for this position will exhibit enthusiasm, flexibility and a positive attitude; posses excellent editing and writing skills and excellent verbal, interpersonal and written communication skills; and be able to organize and prioritize multiple tasks with an acute attention to detail to effectively and efficiently run the EcoProducts vertical.
The candidate will be responsible for all aspects of the EcoProducts vertical and should have knowledge of green tech and environmentally sustainable industries.
Daily Tasks:
• Aggregate and curate news, and compose original content for EcoProducts vertical
• Manage green products e-commerce site
• Build networks with individuals, organizations and businesses related to green product industries
• Monitor real-time analytics and evaluate daily targets
Job Qualifications:
• Ability to work in a fast-paced, team-oriented environment and independently
• Excellent computer skills with experience on Macintosh computers
• Experience with content management systems including WordPress
• Experience working with a variety of social media outlets, and ability to drive and develop robust engagement on each platform
• Ability to write headlines and craft content to go viral
• Extensive knowledge of SEO and online analytics
• Strong graphic design/art direction ability and proficiency in PhotoShop or other photo editing software
• Ability to thrive in deadline-based and fast-paced environment
A passion for a sustainable planet a must.
Hours: Full-time position at the EcoWatch office in Cleveland, Ohio
Salary & Benefits: Competitive compensation package
How to Apply: Email cover letter, resume and three (3) references to spear@ecowatch.com
Manager/Editor EcoLiving Vertical
The candidate for this position will exhibit enthusiasm, flexibility and a positive attitude; posses excellent editing and writing skills and excellent verbal, interpersonal and written communication skills; and be able to organize and prioritize multiple tasks with an acute attention to detail to effectively and efficiently run the EcoLiving vertical.
The candidate will be responsible for all aspects of the EcoLiving vertical and should have extensive knowledge and networks in human health and environmental communities.
Daily Tasks:
• Aggregate and curate news, and compose original content for EcoLiving vertical
• Develop creative daily engagement tools and content for readers to interact with each other
• Build networks with individuals, organizations and businesses related to health and environmental industries
• Monitor real-time analytics and evaluate daily targets
Job Qualifications:
• Ability to work in a fast-paced, team-oriented environment and independently
• Excellent computer skills with experience on Macintosh computers
• Experience with content management systems including WordPress
• Experience working with a variety of social media outlets, and ability to drive and develop robust engagement on each platform
• Ability to write headlines and craft content to go viral
• Extensive knowledge of SEO and online analytics
• Strong graphic design/art direction ability and proficiency in PhotoShop or other photo editing software
• Ability to thrive in deadline-based and fast-paced environment
A passion for a sustainable planet a must.
Hours: Full-time position at the EcoWatch office in Cleveland, Ohio
Salary & Benefits: Competitive compensation package
How to Apply: Email cover letter, resume and three (3) references to spear@ecowatch.com
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The Pompeii of palaeontology. Aaron Hunter, Author provided
<h2></h2><p>Although starfish might appear very robust animals, they are typically made up of lots of hard parts attached by ligaments and soft tissue which, upon death, quickly degrade. This means we rely on places like the Fezouata formations to provide snapshots of their evolution.</p><p>The starfish fossil record is patchy, especially at the critical time when many of these animal groups first appeared. Sorting out how each of the various types of ancient starfish relate to each other is like putting a puzzle together when many of the parts are missing.</p><h2>The Oldest Starfish</h2><p><em><a href="https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/216101v1.full.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Cantabrigiaster</a></em> is the most primitive starfish-like animal to be discovered in the fossil record. It was discovered in 2003, but it has taken over 17 years to work out its true significance.</p><p>What makes <em>Cantabrigiaster</em> unique is that it lacks almost all the characteristics we find in brittle stars and starfish.</p><p>Starfish and brittle stars belong to the family Asterozoa. Their ancestors, the Somasteroids were especially fragile - before <em>Cantabrigiaster</em> we only had a handful of specimens. The celebrated Moroccan paleontologist Mohamed <a href="https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2016.06.041" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Ben Moula</a> and his local team was instrumental in discovering <a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0031018216302334?via%3Dihub" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">these amazing fossils</a> near the town of Zagora, in Morocco.</p><h2>The Breakthrough</h2><p>Our breakthrough moment came when I compared the arms of <em>Cantabrigiaster</em> with those of modern sea lilles, filter feeders with long feathery arms that tend to be attached to the sea floor by a stem or stalk.</p><p>The striking similarity between these modern filter feeders and the ancient starfish led our team from the University of Cambridge and Harvard University to create a new analysis. We applied a biological model to the features of all the current early Asterozoa fossils in existence, along with a sample of their closest relatives.</p>Cantabrigiaster is the most primitive starfish-like animal to be discovered in the fossil record. Aaron Hunter, Author provided
<p>Our results demonstrate <em>Cantabrigiaster</em> is the most primitive of all the Asterozoa, and most likely evolved from ancient animals called crinoids that lived 250 million years before dinosaurs. The five arms of starfish are a relic left over from these ancestors. In the case of <em>Cantabrigiaster</em>, and its starfish descendants, it evolved by flipping upside-down so its arms are face down on the sediment to feed.</p><p>Although we sampled a relatively small numbers of those ancestors, one of the unexpected outcomes was it provided an idea of how they could be related to each other. Paleontologists studying echinoderms are often lost in detail as all the different groups are so radically different from each other, so it is hard to tell which evolved first.</p>President Joe Biden officially took office Wednesday, and immediately set to work reversing some of former President Donald Trump's environmental policies.
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