I went on NPR/WHYY’s Fresh Air to talk to host Tonya Mosley about The Light Eaters:

I spoke with Radio Atlantic’s Hanna Rosin for an episode about The Light Eaters and other plant preoccupations:

I went on WNYC’s Science Friday to talk to host Arielle Duhaime-Ross about The Light Eaters:

The folks at Future Ecologies made an excellent episode based on one chapter of The Light Eaters, for which I went to a rainforest in southern Chile to see the world’s first known chameleon vine. Field audio and narration by me:

I joined Adam Conover’s Factually! to talk about ideas of plant intelligence:

I talked about The Light Eaters at Book Soup in Los Angeles with Annaka Harris, the New York Times bestselling author of CONSCIOUS: A Brief Guide to the Fundamental Mystery of the Mind. We talked about nonhuman minds and the fundamental mysteries of pinpointing where consciousness begins and ends:

I spoke to The Cut's Avery Trufelman about the pandemic-era "nature is healing" meme, our relationship to wild animals, and the racist origins of the myth of pristine wilderness:

I went on PBS Newshour to talk about how population growth and climate change could bring water shortages along the Rio Grande river, a source of drinking water for both Texas and Mexico:

I went on NPR's Science Friday to talk about the results of a pair of National Toxicology Program studies on cell phone radiation and cancer risk in rodents:

I went on NPR’s Science Friday to talk about my series on water at the Texas-Mexico border, and how underground reservoirs could be a tense geopolitical dilemma as the Rio Grande dries up:

I went on Marketplace to talk about the dire health consequences of Rio's raw sewage problem, and how sewage overflow actually plagues thousands of cities around the world. I also wrote about it for Newsweek here.

I appeared on Detroit's local Fox News affiliate station to talk about my 2016 cover story on environmental racism and air pollution in Detroit. Watch here.

I also appeared on the local Detroit ABC affiliate to talk about that Detroit air pollution cover. Watch that here.

I went on MSNBC's Shift to talk about the COP21 climate negotiations in Paris, in two segments: The first, about how women and Catholics are more likely to feel they have a personal stake in climate change, and the second, about Saudi Arabia's climate commitment:

I went on MSNBC's Greenhouse to talk about the Zika virus, pregnancy warnings, and highly restrictive abortion policies in Latin America, following a piece I wrote on abortion and Zika in El Salvador:

I joined host Lizzie O'Leary to talk about Zika and CRISPR on NPR's Marketplace Weekend Edition.

I joined MSNBC's Alex Witt to talk about my scoop on changes to the AP US History standards related to slavery, racism, and American exceptionalism, which were issued after conservatives in several states complained. The new standards took a softer tone on the racial history of America, among other notable changes.