HERE AT THE XYLOM, WE GROW SCIENCE WITH WORDS.

Founded in 2018, and based in Atlanta, The Xylom is the only Asian American-run news outlet dedicated to science, climate, and environmental coverage. 

We seek to bring you clarity and complicate the narrative on three questions:

1. ​"How can science look more like us?"

2. "How are scientists shaped by what happens outside of the lab?"

3. "How do people respond to the changing world through science?"

We do so by pairing an award-winning collection of essays with multilingual, multimedia, and culturally competent reporting that is accountability-, solutions-, and data-driven.

You might've heard of us when:

1. Our scrutiny into the Office of Mayor Andre Dickens' numerous baseless claims about the "environmental stewardship" of "Cop City" led to the deletion of a press release and won us an Atlanta Press Club Award,

2. We created the first MARTA weekend service dashboard which revealed the full extent of Atlanta's transit crisis;

3. We report on the devastating ecological and economic impacts of the Mumbai Coastal Road as it approaches completion and Maharashtra's first-in-the-nation unproven plan to sterilize leopards, the first foreign news outlet to do so.

We are 100% supported by readers and grants. We will never have a paywall, nor do we sell ads or do sponsored content. We do believe in an open, real-time budget accurate to the cent that allows you to see exactly how your donations are making an impact.  

This is a space for our musings, reader submissions, and a curated collection of science stories you have to read, with a focus on the American South! Our work is not free, so consider giving an optional donation to keep our lights on.

Let's grow science with words, together. #xforxylom

The Xylom is a member newsroom of Covering Climate Now, the INN Network (including its Rural News Network), LION Publishers, and OptOut News. We are fiscally sponsored by the Alternative Newsweekly Foundation, a 501(c)(3) registered in the District of Columbia.