Bio

Arielle Duhaime-Ross is a freelance science journalist, podcast host, comics artist, and TV host based in Portland, Oregon.

Their work has appeared on Vox.com, The Verge, Quartz, Scientific American, VICE News, as well as in VICE News' flagship weekly news podcast VICE News Reports, which they hosted for three years. During their time at VICE News, Arielle also became the first climate change correspondent in American nightly TV news, appearing regularly on the Emmy-award winning HBO show VICE News Tonight.  

Arielle's most recent work mainly consists of making shows with podcast companies like PRX and Pineapple Media. In 2024, Arielle hosted two podcasts. One of those shows is Altered States, where Arielle covers the science of psychedelics. In The World as You'll know it, Arielle covers the role that technology will play in helping humanity minimize the impact of climate change. Arielle has also been a regular guest host this year on the radio show and podcast Science Friday.

Outside of podcasting, they are currently working toward a comics certificate at SAW. They hope to publish non-fiction comics in the near future.

Accolades

Over the course of their career, Arielle has won a number of journalism awards. They won the gold audio award at the 2022 AAAS Kavli Science journalism awards for their work on the podcast A Show About Animals, which tackled the controversy surrounding animal language research and Koko the gorilla in its first season.

Arielle's climate reporting was recognized by the National Association of Science Writers in 2019. That year, they were awarded the NASW's Science in Society Journalism Award, in the science features category, for a VICE News story they wrote about a predominantly black community living in a rural region of Alabama, where failing septic tanks and pools of raw sewage had increased the risk of hookworm and other infectious diseases. 

Arielle also received the Silver award in the Spot news/featuring reporting video category at the 2019 AAAS Kavli Science Journalism Awards for a VICE News Tonight segment about the unexpected way glaciers are melting in Greenland.

Finally, Arielle was granted the 2015 Herb Lampert Science in Society Emerging Journalist award for a feature they wrote while working for The Verge. The report told the story of a radical 1950s scientist who suggested memory could be stored outside the brain.

Background

Born and raised in Montreal, Canada, Arielle grew up daydreaming about working with animals and becoming a scientist. They saw that dream through — to a certain extent – when they obtained their bachelor’s degree in zoology at the University of Guelph. Their stint as a scientist is what opened up their mind to the world of science communication, and allowed them to fall in love with the discipline. After college, they went on to obtain their master’s degree in science, health, and environmental reporting from New York University's journalism school. 
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Arielle also has two CEGEP degrees — degrees no one has heard of outside of Quebec —  in classical music and health sciences. Their instrument during their stint at music school was the classical guitar, which they no longer play (in public).

When they aren't hosting podcasts or reporting stories, they spend most of their time drawing comics, bicycle riding, and training their two chihuahuas, Reggie and June.