Category: Featured stories

EPA approved dicamba for new uses on Monsanto’s GM crops, ignoring scientists’ warnings that it would evaporate, drift and ruin crops miles away. The result? Millions of acres of damage to crops, gardens and wild plants.

Reveal, from the Center for Investigative Reporting & FERN, November 13, 2018

Winner, SPJ NorCal Excellence in Journalism Award for Explanatory Journalism, 2019

3rd place, Association of Food Journalists Award, Best Story on Food Policy or Food Issues, 2019

The Best of Nonprofit News 2018, Money, Power & Influence

Everyone loves burrowing owls but many don’t realize that the prairie dogs and other burrowing mammals they love to hate are critical to the endearing owls’ survival.

PBS Nature, August 7, 2018 

As thousands of migrant children have been taken from their parents and sent to facilities across the country, questions are growing about the medical care they are receiving – or, as health experts fear, not receiving.

Reveal, Center for Investigative Reporting, June 25, 2018

Recognized, Best Shortform Science Writing

After ditching two notoriously toxic compounds, manufacturers subbed in other versions of their chemical class. But are they any better?

Ensia, March 26, 2018

Center for Investigative Reporting, November 17, 2017

Big Vape is copying Big Tobacco’s playbook.

The Verge, November 16, 2017

The search for autism’s causes is a daunting task — but researchers are investigating a variety of factors that might play a role.

Ensia, September 21, 2017

Predators like pumas cower in our presence. And these big cats aren’t the only ones.

Smithsonian, July 11, 2017

Discover, May 1, 2017