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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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Solastalgia: Naming the Grief of Climate Change, KCET (PBS), 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.
2022 - 2024
How Could Deep-sea Mining Benefit All of Humanity?, Hakai Magazine, Dec 20, 2024.
Deep-sea Mining in the United States, Hakai Magazine, February 16, 2024
How to Stop the Spread of Spotted Lanternflies, Sierra Magazine, November 4, 2023.
Scientists Eye Offshore Wind’s Effects on the Atlantic’s Crucial Cold Pool, Hakai Magazine, September 18, 2023. Republished in print and online in France’s Courrier International.
It’s Deadline Day for Deep-Sea Mining, Hakai Magazine, July 7, 2023.
Deep-sea Mining’s Dirty Dilemma, Hakai Magazine, April 22, 2023. Republished in Popular Science and 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, December 20, 2022. Republished in Eco-Business.
Mining the Shallow Seas, Hakai Magazine, November 25, 2022.
A Year In, Progress is Slow in Development of Deep-Sea Mining Code, Hakai Magazine, August 11, 2022. Republished in Canada’s National Observer.
Solastalgia: Naming the Grief of Climate Change, KCET (PBS SoCal), May 16, 2022.
2021 - 2020
“Antithetical to science”: When deep-sea research meets mining interests, Mongabay, October 4, 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, July 14, 2021.
A Mining Code for the Deep Sea, Hakai Magazine, June 25, 2021.
‘Nowadays I cannot sleep’: Iranian-Canadians worried about rise in COVID-19 cases, CBC News, March 3, 2020.
The Green Woods of Resilience, Sapiens, October 13, 2020.
2018 - 2020
Sea turtles continue to swim in troubled waters: report, Mongabay, December 19, 2019.
Ripple Effects of Climate Change Could Damage Mountain Gorilla Populations, Pacific Standard, July 2, 2018
Rwandan people and mountain gorillas face changing climate together, Mongabay, June 27, 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, July 5, 2017.