As a science & environmental journalist, I write primarily about environmental health, climate, & radiation issues, but I'm also very interested in biogeochemistry & microbiology, as well as the history & philosophy of science. And, well, pretty much everything.
Or is it even worse than we thought? Can anyone really tell us?
Miller-McCune Magazine | March-April 2012
Emerging research shows that bacteria have powers to engineer the environment, to communicate and to affect human well-being. They may even think.
Miller-McCune Magazine | December 2, 2010
In the capricious world of nuclear waste, a scientist focuses on promising technologies for the capture and storage of the maddeningly elusive iodine-129.
Miller-McCune Magazine | August 19, 2009
Advances in the field of epigenetics show that environmental contaminants can turn genes “on” and “off” triggering serious diseases that are handed down through generations. But there’s also a more heartening prospect: The same diseases may be treated by relatively simple changes in nourishment and lifestyle.
Miller-McCune Magazine | July 14, 2008
*First Place, Society of Environmental Journalists' Competition, Explanatory Writing in Print, 2009
Environmental Health Perspectives | August 2005
Beneath the Columbia River Basin, a real-life trial of the uncertain science of carbon sequestration
High Country News | September 2007
Environmental Health Perspectives
November 2003
Increased risk persists two decades after radioiodine exposure
Environmental Health Perspectives
July 2011
Environmental Health Perspectives
February 2007
Environmental Science & Technology
January 1, 2003
Environmental Health Perspectives | November 2007
Forest Magazine | Spring 2006
Science | January 2007
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