About 500 people, nearly all Latino farm workers, live in the long-neglected town of East Orosi with no sidewalks, street lights, or playgrounds. More than half live below the poverty level. And like a growing number of California’s poor people, they’re paying for water that’s not fit to drink.
Environmental Health News, June 11, 2012
Part 4 of EHN’s Poverty, Pollution, People of Color series, won Oakes Award Honorable Mention, from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.
Knowing when grapes are ripe depends on science, experience and a little luck.
Wine Spectator, April 30, 2012
An interview with Frans de Waal, C.H. Candler Professor of Psychology and director of the Living Links Center for the Advanced Study of Ape and Human Evolution at the Yerkes National Primate Research Center at Emory University.
PLOS Blogs, March 27, 2012
Although flame retardants may pose health risks, the chemical industry has spent millions blocking attempts to ban them in California. A five-month investigation for Environmental Health News.
East Bay Express, Nov. 16, 2011
Frederick Wiseman, at work on a new film about higher ed set in Berkeley, embraces complexity to capture the way we live.
California magazine, Fall 2011; Appeared in the The Good Fight (Fall 2011) issue, winner of the CASE gold medal award.
One of the American West’s best-known conservation successes, condors still face a tough road ahead
High Country News, June 13, 2011
Few winemakers today use a heavy hand with sulfites, but consumers still worry about health risks.
Wines & Vines, January 2011
Genetic engineering may offer disease-plagued grapevines a lifeline, but the hurdles are high.
Wine Spectator, Dec. 15, 2010
Mountain lions are straying into more urban areas: Can the Bay Area’s big cats survive encroaching civilization?
San Francisco Chronicle, November 28, 2010
With the number of wild tigers at an all-time low, a new study warns that unless conservation managers redouble funds and efforts to protect tigers in the few places they can still thrive, we may lose the world’s largest cat.
National Geographic’s News Watch, September 2010
