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