Climate Change and the Environment
My work as a journalist is animated by a desire to understand how individuals are responding to a world being rapidly transformed by ecological crises, even as most governments and corporations refuse to confront the existential threat we all face.
Featured Reporting
Sierra, December 2024
"The combination of Acadia National Park’s vulnerability to the rising sea and its rank among the most visited national parks in the country have made it a laboratory for a policy that the National Park Service adopted in 2021 to confront the climate crisis on federally managed lands nationwide."
Changing Paradise
The New Republic, November 2023
“Even as Democrats lead the national charge toward tackling climate change, they are continuing to preach at the altar of growth. That may solidify their electoral gains in the Southwest, but it also risks a different sort of environmental chaos.”
The Water Wars Deciding the Future of the West
The Nation, August 2022
“The Salton Sea was formed before the Hoover Dam, before Lake Powell, before the aqueducts that stretch for hundreds of miles across the West. The region became dependent on these waterworks as soon as they were constructed, even as the Salton Sea was slowly transforming into a surreal and toxic landmark.”
A Dead Sea
New York Magazine, April 2022
“Poor hydrology isn’t the only thing on the water managers’ minds: They’re also contending with the yawning cultural and political chasm between the region’s urban and rural interests as well as questions about who should suffer the most aggressive cuts and how to better engage Indigenous communities that have historically been cut out of the dealmaking. All of that makes the Southwest’s deliberations over the Colorado River a window into how climate change is putting pressure on divisions embedded throughout American society.”
"We Woke Up and Lost Half Our Water"
More Clips
“Acadia National Park Confronts a Rising Tide,” Sierra, May 2024
“Shrinking the Economy to Save the World,” The Nation, April 2022
“Fallowed Ground,” Common Home, February 2022
“All Skies Are Gray,” Real Life, April 2021