I’m a freelance writer based in the San Francisco Bay Area and a senior editor at the open-access biomedical journal PLoS Biology. I write about wildlife, ecology and evolution, conservation, environmental health, science policy, the science of wine, and more. My stories reflect my wide-ranging interests and curiosity about the natural world and our place in it, and have appeared in diverse outlets, including San Francisco Chronicle, National Geographic’s News Watch, High Country News, East Bay Express, Sierra, Tikkun, PLoS Biology, Wines & Vines, Wine Spectator.
I blog about ecology and wildlife at KQED QUEST
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Contact: lizagross@gmail.com
Visiting grizzlies at WSU Bear Center
Should Chimpanzees Have Moral Standing? An interview with Frans de Waal Money to Burn, my investigative report for Environmental Health News, and cover story in the East Bay Express, shows the chemical industry spent millions to block attempts to regulate flame retardants Pesticide Emasculates Animals New review confirms atrazine’s ability to wreak havoc on the male reproductive system, in the East Bay Express The Lion Counters, guest post for Last Word on Nothing A profile of documentary great Frederick Wiseman in California magazine
Pondering condors, extinction, and human folly in Back to the future New research in wild songbirds suggests climate change could affect rates of evolution Making Sense of Sulfites in Wines & Vines
Cover story in the San Francisco Chronicle Sunday Insight section, Mountain Lions Straying into More Urban Areas
Can genetic engineering help disease-plagued grapevines? Grapes Transformed in Wine Spectator
Tiger experts call for desperate measures to save the world’s largest cat in A Last Stand for Tigers?, in National Geographic’s News Watch
Dogs teach researchers new tricks about the genetics of complex traits
Researchers battle time–and local resistance–to save France’s endangered brown bears,