Douglas Fox

Douglas Fox

A person in a red parka and yellow-tinted goggles smiles outdoors in a cold environment; a name tag on the coat reads "D. Fox.

Douglas Fox is a freelance journalist who writes about life, Earth, and Antarctic sciences. His stories have appeared in Scientific American, National Geographic, Esquire, Virginia Quarterly Review, High Country News, Discover, Nature and The Best American Science and Nature Writing. 

Futuristic Mars habitat with transparent walls, showing people tending to green plants and fungi inside. Astronauts and rovers are visible on the red, rocky Martian surface outside.
Instead of hauling heavy building materials across space, future astronauts may grow fungal shelters from spores, waste, and local regolith.