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Deep-sea Mining’s Dirty Dilemma, Hakai Magazine, April 22, 2023.
Why Nauru is Pushing the World Toward Deep-Sea Mining, Hakai Magazine, July 14, 2021.
‘Nowadays I cannot sleep’: Iranian-Canadians worried about rise in COVID-19 cases, CBC News, March 3, 2020.
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Wildfires have lasting psychological effects on farmworkers, Sierra Magazine, 2025.
Solastalgia: Naming the Grief of Climate Change, PBS SoCal, May 16, 2022.
The Green Woods of Resilience, Sapiens, October 13, 2020.
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“Antithetical to science”: When deep-sea research meets mining interests, Mongabay, October 4, 2021.
Coffee capsules: brewing up a storm of waste, Mongabay, December 20, 2022.
Rwandan people and mountain gorillas face changing climate together, Mongabay, June 27, 2018.
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Into the Wild: Reporting on Human-Wildlife Interactions, The Open Notebook, December 5, 2023.
Well-researched stories that bridge the gap between news and scholarship, JSTOR Daily, April 25, 2023.
Should biologists work for natural resource companies for scientific studies? Speak Up for Ocean Blue Podcast, Oct 13, 2021.
Dinosaur extinction, wolf restoration, gorillas in decline: a few great reads, MinnPost, Aug 30, 2018.
Recent:
Fast and Free Buses Could Make New York More Affordable— and Green. The Polis Project. 2026
Somali Immigrants Fled Climate Change. Now they’re facing ICE. The New Republic, 2026.
The Poetics of Malcolm X, In These Times, 2026. Published in print magazine (March 2026 issue).
Wildfires have lasting psychological effects on farmworkers, Sierra, 2025.
In Mexico, Scientists, Neighbors and Nuns Come Together to Save the Last Achoque Salamanders, TriplePundit, 2025.
Past work:
How Could Deep-sea Mining Benefit All of Humanity?, Hakai Magazine, 2024.
What’s Next for Deep-sea Mining?,Hakai Magazine, 2024.
Deep-sea Mining in the United States, Hakai Magazine, 2024
How to Stop the Spread of Spotted Lanternflies, Sierra Magazine, 2023.
Scientists Eye Offshore Wind’s Effects on the Atlantic’s Crucial Cold Pool, Hakai Magazine, 2023. Republished in print and online in France’s Courrier International.
It’s Deadline Day for Deep-Sea Mining, Hakai Magazine, 2023.
Deep-sea Mining’s Dirty Dilemma, Hakai Magazine, 2023. Republished in Popular Scienceand The Tyee. Featured on JStor Daily as a well-researched story that bridges the gap between news and scholarship.
Coffee capsules: brewing up a storm of waste, Mongabay, 2022. Republished in Eco-Business.
Mining the Shallow Seas, Hakai Magazine, 2022.
A Year In, Progress is Slow in Development of Deep-Sea Mining Code, Hakai Magazine, 2022. Republished in Canada’s National Observer.
Solastalgia: Naming the Grief of Climate Change, PBS SoCal, 2022.
“Antithetical to science”: When deep-sea research meets mining interests, Mongabay, 2021. This piece was the subject of an episode in Speak Up for the Ocean Blue podcast, and cited in The Playbook: How to Deny Science, Sell Lies, and Make a Killing in the Corporate World (Random House, 2022), The Underworld: Journeys to the Depth of the Ocean (Knopf Doubleday, 2023), and The Deepest Map: The High-Stakes Race to Chart the World’s Oceans (HarperCollins 2023).
Why Nauru is Pushing the World Toward Deep-Sea Mining, Hakai Magazine, 2021.
A Mining Code for the Deep Sea, Hakai Magazine, 2021.
‘Nowadays I cannot sleep’: Iranian-Canadians worried about rise in COVID-19 cases, CBC News, 2020.
The Green Woods of Resilience, Sapiens Magazine, 2020.
Sea turtles continue to swim in troubled waters: report, Mongabay, 2019.
Ripple Effects of Climate Change Could Damage Mountain Gorilla Populations, Pacific Standard, 2018
Rwandan people and mountain gorillas face changing climate together, Mongabay, 2018. This work was featured in MinnPost Earth Journal: Dinosaur extinction, wolf restoration, gorillas in decline: a few great reads; and cited in The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2018.
Rwanda: Complexities of Conservation in Akagera, The Pulitzer Center, 2017.