Latest work:
THE ATLANTIC
I’m a staff writer at the Atlantic. All my work can be found here.
A few recent pieces:
The Hypocrisy at the Heart of the Insurance Industry
One Huge Contradiction Is Undoing Our Best Climate Efforts
The Invisible Force Keeping Carbon in the Ground
A Radical Idea to Break the Logic of Oil Drilling
Prepare for a ‘Gray Swan’ Climate
THE NEW YORK TIMES
The Mushrooms Will Survive Us
What to Save? Climate Change Forces Brutal Choices at National Parks (Notable, The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2022)
Air pollution set millions of Americans up to be less able to fight the coronavirus
How to be prepared for overlapping disasters
Lyme disease is spreading, thanks to climate change. Here’s how to thwart it
THE NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS
Our Silent Partners: A review of Merlin Sheldrake’s Entangled Life
Pandemic Journal: On our longing to see nature return during the coronavirus quarantine
AUDUBON MAGAZINE
A New Plastic Wave is Coming to Our Shores (First place honorable mention, Society of Environmental Journalists Awards 2021)
BLOOMBERG
The Botanist Daring to Ask: What if Plants Have Personalities?
TIME
Will Coronavirus be the Death or Salvation of Big Plastic?
Begging for Thermometers, Body Bags, and Gowns: U.S. Health Care Workers Are Dangerously Ill-Equipped to Fight COVID-19
QUARTZ
Shallow Waters: A 9-part series on water and climate change at the Texas-Mexico border (start on Part 1 here) (Finalist, The Livingston Awards. Finalist, The Morley Safer Award for Outstanding Reporting. Finalist, The National Academies of Sciences Award)
Should a pregnant person ever go to prison?
Solving Mexico City’s cataclysmic cycle of drowning, drying, and sinking
The botanists’ last stand: The daring work of saving the last samples of dying species
A Kenyan mother, two disappearing Indian businessmen, and the battery factory that poisoned a village
NEWSWEEK
Choking to death in Detroit: Flint isn't Michigan's only disaster (Recipient, the National Association of Science Writers Science Reporting Award 2017)
JONAH, the largest Jewish ex-gay conversion therapy organization takes its last breath
THE FADER: Live and let die: Why some biologists are abandoning their faith in total conservation
SSENSE: Anthropocene aesthetics: On Gore-Tex, eco-anxiety, and fashion’s foray into the forest
WIRED: Rogue scientists race to save climate data from Trump
DISSENT: Turning mutual aid into meaningful work
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