Story portfolio

​This is a selection of Linda's stories. All features are copyright and may not be reprinted or reproduced without written permission. 

• How home buyers can find out if climate change will affect their dream home, Domain, August 2019.
• Stranger than fiction, (platypus story), BBC Wildlife, 2019.
• ​Penguin parade, BBC Wildlife, 2019
• ​The train that killed my brother, Daily Maverick, 2019
• Are home insurance calculators accurate? Choice, September 2018
• Superbug super-warrior, Monash Magazine, September 2016
• ​Clear vision from the end of the earth, Nature Index, 2016
• ​Home buyers forking out fees to unqualified building inspectors, Sydney Morning Herald, 2016
• The complex relationship between national security and nature, ABC Environment, 2015
• Music of transformation, Wellbeing, 2015
• World Parks Congress aims to protect a third of oceans in marine parks, ABC Environment, 2014
• South Africa, fine dining: from the seed to the plate, Traveller, SMH ,2014
• ​Cool retreats,  Green Lifestyle, 2014
• Cape crusaders,  Qantas the Australian Way, 2014 
• Green schools, Green Lifestyle, 2013
• Aids fighter draws hope from a crisis, Monash Magazine,  2013
• Forgotten voices reveal history in black and white, Monash Magazine, 2013
• Wonderland around Whitehorse, Luxury Travel, Summer 2013
• Muscle to machines: cutting labour drudgery in Africa,  Partners, 2013
• Orchid inspirations, InDesign, Issue 51, 2012
• Vancouver Ventures, Green Lifestyle,  2012
• Of mice and mental illness, Sydney Alumni Magazine, 2012
• The elephant whisperer, Fah Thai, 2010
• Great mother of the hornbills, Fah Thai, 2010​
• In pursuit of an African queen, The Sydney Morning Herald, Traveller, 2009
• Paradise Found, (One Tree Island research station), Sydney Alumni Magazine
• Lounging on Lizard, Life Etc., 2009
• Whiskers in the rainforest, Life Etc, 2009, reprinted Wellbeing, 2010.
• No agony, much ecstasy, Sydney Alumni Magazine, 2008
• Climate change and exports, Dynamic Business, 2008
• Looking for raptors, Life Etc, 2008 
• Earning a living Down Under, The Sunday Times, 2008 
• No longer lost for words, Sydney Alumni Magazine, 2008
• For the love of a lady, Fairfax publications, 2008 
• Snoring success, Sydney Alumni Magazine, 2008 
• Zoo program beats spider phobias, The Australian, 2007
• Come hell on high water, Cover story, Focus, Australian Doctor 2005 
• Dr Meiya's passion for skulduggery, Cover story, Focus, Australian Doctor, 2005
• Many facets meet on discovery's leading edge,  The Australian, 2005
• Separating the pure from the polluted, Times Higher Education 2004
• Kicking around a cancer patient, Times Higher Education, 2003
• Nymphomania now and then, Focus, Australian Doctor, 2003
• Architecture's everyman, Times Higher Education, 2002
• On the trail of scientific oddballs, The Chronicle of Higher Education, 2001
• Moving South Africa's universities beyond apartheid, The Chronicle of Higher Education 2001
• Slain Fulbright scholar's cause embraced, The Chronicle of Higher Education, 2001
• The smog spies, Leadership magazine, 2000
• Jackass of the seas, Cover story, Africa Environment and Wildlife

African penguin feeding chicks at Boulders Beach in Cape Town. ©Linda Vergnani

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Publications list

​Publications that have carried Linda's features include: 

• ABC Environment
• ABC Science
• Africa Environment and Wildlife (Africa Geographic) 
• Australian Doctor
• BBC Wildlife
• Choice
• Daily Maverick
• Ecos
• Green Lifestyle
• InDesign 
• Leadership
• Life Etc
• Luxury Travel 
• Nature Index
• Qantas the Australian Way
• Reader's Digest.
• The Australian
• The Cape Argus  
• The Sydney Morning Herald
• The Sunday Times (South Africa)
• The Sunday Tribune 
• The Chronicle of Higher Education 
• Times Higher Education 
• Traveller 

See examples of articles in Contently or in story portfolio.