Evan Thomas

Evan Thomas

Evan Thomas

Digital Content Manager

Evan Thomas manages Scripps News content on the web and on mobile and streaming apps. He graduated from the University of Missouri with a journalism degree and has now spent more than a decade writing and editing news and managing teams under the Scripps News umbrella. Evan contributes climate and energy reporting, dabbles in photography and is a lifelong cyclist and outdoorsman. He lives in Colorado.

Recent Work
An infrared image of rhinos

To Save Endangered Animals, We're Learning To See Them In The Dark

International Space Station

What Will Happen When The International Space Station Crashes

A woman uses her cellphone in front of the U.S. Supreme Court

Newly Passed Act Weakens Web Privacy, Wrecks Microsoft Court Case

A rendering of Tiangong-1 re-entering the atmosphere

Why It's Hard To Know Where Or When China's Space Station Will Crash

The Facebook logo reflected in an eye

Advertising Data Is Getting Turned Into A Political Tool

Two men in a boat collect lost fishing nets

The Great Pacific Garbage Patch Has Even More Garbage Than We Thought

NASA visualization of Arctic temperature trends

Fossil Fuel Companies Are Going On The Record About Climate Change

wildflowers in bloom with snow-capped mountains in the background

Spring Arrives Earlier Every Year, And It's Altering Whole Ecosystems

A crate of lunar samples

When's The Best Time For NASA To Open Its Last Lunar Samples?

The Insight lander

To Run A Mars Mission, NASA's Insight Lander Will Need Pi

Arctic sea ice

When The Arctic Warms, Extreme US Weather Is More Frequent

A near-Earth asteroid

Congressman Dana Rohrabacher Is Very Worried About Surprise Asteroids

MRI scan of a human brain

Neuroforensics Is Turning Our Brains Into Legal Evidence

Artist's rendering of GOES weather satellite

Cutting-Edge Weather Satellite Launches To Improve US Forecasting

R2-D2 at the White House

What Can 'Star Wars' Droids Teach Us About Building Better Robots?

A worker watches a natural gas flare burn off

Even With Loose CO2 Rules, The US Could Still Hit Paris Climate Goals

Smog in Shanghai

Soap And Paint Can Be As Bad For The Air As Car Exhaust

Rendering of the Wide Field Infrared Survey Telescope

NASA Is Turning An Unused Spy Satellite Into Its Next Planet-Hunter

The International Space Station

Trump's Commercial Space Station Proposal Isn't A New One

A lab rat in a cage

A Shutdown Can Stall All Federal Science — Starting With Lab Rats

The Olympic rings in South Korea

The Winter Olympics Have Been Slowly Melting

Moon colored red during a lunar eclipse

This Supermoon Is Actually Worth Checking Out

Storm clouds over Africa

Fine Aerosols Are Spinning Up Fiercer Tropical Storms

Solar Panels at NASA's Kennedy Space Center

Trump's Solar Panel Tariffs Probably Won't Stall The US Boom For Long

An 1879 photo of a nurse wearing a mask

You Can Easily Spread The Flu Just By Breathing

A map of global temperatures in 2017

As Expected, 2017 Was One Of The Hottest Years On Record

Hurricane Maria makes landfall over Puerto Rico

Climate Threats Are Expected To Increase In 2018

A Google advertisement for its voice assistant at CES 2018

Voice-Sensitive Tech Dominated CES — Even With Its Security Drawbacks

A patient receives a flu shot

Why It's So Hard To Get A Flu Vaccine Right

Byton's concept electric SUV

Electric Car Batteries Are About To Charge Faster And Last Longer