Writing

Published work

2023

Orca Killer Whale Moms Pay a Steep Price to Feed Their Adult Sons
Discover Magazine

In Calakmul, water troughs offer possible solution to human-wildlife conflict – Mongabay

A liquid biofuels primer: Carbon-cutting hopes vs. real-world impacts – Mongabay

Brazil tackles illegal miners, but finds their mercury legacy harder to erase – Mongabay

Peeling back the sediment layers – Hakai Magazine

Deforestation could pose disease threat to Amazon’s white-lipped peccaries – Mongabay

What the builders of Stonehenge liked to eat – Discover Magazine

How effective is Alcoholics Anonymous? – Discover Magazine

Restore linked habitat to protect tropical amphibians from disease: Study – Mongabay

Forest loss may push tree-dependent marbled cats into threatened category – Mongabay

Plastic works its way up the food chain to hit fishing cats, study shows – Mongabay

EU demand for frogs’ legs raises risks of local extinctions, experts warn – Mongabay

Archaeological Treasures Hidden Beneath the Colosseum – Discover Magazine

Protecting canids from planet-wide threats offers ecological opportunities – Mongabay

Debunking 3 common climate change myths – Discover Magazine

2022

Tobacco: Vaping and smoking drive environmental harm from farm to fingertip
Mongabay

Global study reveals widespread salt marsh decline
Mongabay

What to do when the recovery of one species puts another at risk?
Hakai Magazine

To save threatened Amazon primates in Brazil, turn them into the main attraction – Mongabay

How much trash is in our oceans? – Discover Magazine

Plastic impacts a grossly underestimated ‘one-two punch’ for seabirds: Study – Mongabay

Severe malaria cases in rescued orangutans raises concerns for wild populations – Mongabay

Wild cats threatened by ‘underrecognized’ risk of spillover disease – Mongabay

Community study sheds light on wild cat killings in Brazil’s central Amazon – Mongabay

Patagonian Shipwreck Could Be 150-Year-Old Rhode Island Whaler – Discover Magazine

Did This Giant Sea Lizard Rule the Oceans 66 Million Years Ago? – Discover Magazine

These 7 New Dinosaur Species Were Unearthed In 2022 – Discover Magazine

Orcas Have Social Trends Like Us, And This One Could Get Dangerous For Boats – Discover Magazine

Female Monkeys Live Longer If They Have a Social Life – Discover Magazine

In Vietnam, farmers show a willingness to work with the elephant in the room – Mongabay

6 Animals With Unusual Evolutionary Traits – Discover Magazine

These 4 Animals Depend on Leadership to Survive – Discover Magazine

Zero-deforestation commitments ‘fundamentally limited’ in tackling deforestation, study argues – Mongabay

These 5 Modern Inventions Actually Have Ancient Roots – Discover Magazine

Education can change local perception of bats, help conserve species, study says – Mongabay

Larger, 65-foot-long Megalodon Might Have Fed on Whales – Discover Magazine

7 World-Famous Explorers and Their Scientific Discoveries – Discover Magazine

How does climate change affect biodiversity? – Discover Magazine

From South America to Southeast Asia, Tour Boats Threaten Wildlife – Discover Magazine

Consumed: Cocaine – Mongabay

Defining the Line Between Missing and Extinct Species
Discover Magazine

Delectable but destructive: Tracing chocolate’s environmental life cycle – Mongabay

Study assesses wildlife exposure to rat poison on oil palm plantations – Mongabay

Bats in Germany are riddled with pesticides and toxic pollutants – New Scientist

Facial recognition – Now for seals – Hakai Magazine

To win island-wide conservation, Indonesia’s Talaud bear cuscus needs to win hearts – Mongabay

Legal and illegal cannabis: A cause for growing environmental concern – Mongabay

Rehabilitation research returns orphaned cheetahs to the wild – Mongabay

Study warns of risk from feline viruses to wild cats on the palm oil frontier – Mongabay

‘It’s just a bird’: Online platforms selling lesser-known Indonesian species – Mongabay

The surprising scale of the seagrass sanitation service – Hakai Magazine

Saving the near-extinct estuarine pipefish means protecting estuary health – Mongabay

Brazil Tree Cam Captures Possible Self-Medicating Behavior in Mammals – Discover Magazine

Tropical mammals under rising chemical pollution pressure, study warns – Mongabay

Is it time to change tack in the ‘war on rats’? – Discover Magazine

All coked up: The global environmental impacts of cocaine – Mongabay

Seagrass joins other marine life in accumulating sunscreen compounds – Mongabay

Online trade in rare silvery pigeon is cause for concern, researchers say – Mongabay

Getting away with it in ancient Rome – Fakes, frauds, and forgeries – Ancient History Magazine (Print only)

If managed properly, whale and dolphin carcasses can benefit coastal ecosystems – Discover Magazine

Interspecies fight club offers hope for Noble crayfish- Discover Magazine

Caffeine: Emerging contaminant of global rivers and coastal waters – Mongabay

A brief history of the ancient cat – Ancient History Magazine (Print only)

The small cats nobody knows: Wild felines face intensifying planetary risks – Mongabay

Invasive plants are threatening Rome’s ancient monuments – Discover Magazine

How to deal with the global human sewage problem? | Mongabay Explains – Mongabay

Innovative sewage solutions: Tackling the global human waste problem – Mongabay

The thick of it: Delving into the neglected global impacts of human waste – Mongabay

Older

Rome’s forgotten triumphator – Publius Ventidius – Ancient History Magazine (Print only)

Beards and back again – The growth of facial hair in Ancient Rome – Ancient History Magazine (Print only)

Power meets familial politics: Divorce in Ancient Rome – Ancient History Magazine (Print only)

Trumping Colombia’s peace: U.S. drug war threatens fragile accord, forests – Mongabay

A tale of two policies: climate change, Trump, and the U.S. military – Mongabay

IUCN, UN, global NGOs, likely to see major budget cuts under Trump – Mongabay

Indonesians plant trees to nurse seagrass back to health in Wakatobi – Mongabay

Unfair trade: US beef has a climate problem – Mongabay

Island-hopping toxic toad threatens iconic Komodo Dragon – Mongabay

All that glitters is covered in sewage: Gold & silver found in Swiss sewage – The Culture Trip

A clouded future: Asia’s enigmatic clouded leopard threatened by palm oil – Mongabay

‘Invasive snake’ is really a new species and should be protected – New Scientist

Put down your pitchforks, Switzerland’s hellhound lookalike is just an ordinary beast – Earth Touch News

The plan to reintroduce a big cat that might never have existed – New Scientist

Great apes and greater challenges: Trafficking in Cameroon – Mongabay

The Myanmar snub-nosed monkey: discovered and immediately endangered – Mongabay

Out of sight, out of mind: Asia’s elusive Fishing Cat in trouble – Mongabay

Losing all the glaciers in Switzerland is not that far away – The Local CH

The “Crypt-keeper wasp” – BioWeb

A toxic threat to the jaguars of the Pantanal – Earth Touch News 

New beetle species bites army ant’s butt and hitches a ride – New Scientist

Yaqui catfish faces extinction in the US by 2018 – Earth Touch News

Study gauges use of tea as buffer crop to curb mountain gorilla raids – Mongabay

Bolivia’s domestic parrot trade supplied by birds seen as “crop pests” – Mongabay

The Maned wolf: saving South America’s unfortunately-named canid – Mongabay

Industry wields too much influence over U.S. pesticide regulation, says study – Mongabay

Galapagos “gold rush” feeds global hunger for shark fins, sea cucumbers – Mongabay

Oil roads to ecological ruin: Ecuador’s bushmeat and wildlife trade – Mongabay

Tracking the tiny: Harmonic direction finders aid study of small amphibians – Mongabay

Saving the Barbary macaque: An interview with Dr. Sian Waters – Mongabay

Feline unseen: The African Golden Cat – Mongabay

13 ‘keystone’ corporations hold sway over sustainability of global fisheries – Mongabay

Antibiotics revolution? iChip promises resistance-free antibiotics – Mongabay

Moratoria beat certification to reduce deforestation for soy, palm oil, cattle – Mongabay

Scientists find surprising climate change refuge for reef-building corals: beneath mangroves – Mongabay

New study finds the brilliant-thighed poison frog can learn its way home – Mongabay