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  • A Garden at Ground Zero

    New York Times 07/16/2021

    Even with harsh winds and little sunlight 10 stories above Broadway, you can beat the elements if you are persistent — and clever enough.

  • A New Year’s Climate Diet

    New York Times 12/31/2019

    How many tons of emissions can we trim in the new year?

  • In Search Of Lost Screen Time

    New York Times 12/31/2018

    Imagine what we could do with our money, and hours, if we set our phones aside for a year.

  • Between Wind and Whale

    Eating Well 03/25/2022

    A complicated battle in the Gulf of Maine threatens to take lobster off the menu

  • Shopping for the Apocalypse

    Adirondack Life 09/20/2021

    My dysfunctional, anxiety-ridden search for a climate-safe Adirondack haven

  • An oasis in the shadow of 9/11

    The Guardian 08/28/2021

    After catastrophe, a garden was my way out

  • The Four Fish I’d Still Eat Even After Watching Seaspiracy

    The Guardian 05/10/2021

    Keeping a food relationship with the sea has its merits

  • The Realities of Owning an Electric Car in New York City

    Curbed 04/30/2021

    Two weeks of driving on electric reshaped my ideas about the City

  • We Don’t Need More Life-Crushing Steel and Concrete

    New York Times 04/13/2021

    The long-term needs of ecosystems should come before our knee-jerk expectations about infrastructure

  • My European Staycation

    Food and Wine 04/01/2021

    A sustainable food and wine tour of the Erie Canal with no flight required

  • Six Ways Of Using Your Phone Less That Will Strengthen Your Body

    Women’s Running 10/15/2020

    Excerpted from Goodbye Phone, Hello World

  • Reconnect without the tech

    British Airways High Life 10/01/2020

    iQuit. So can you. Excerpted from Goodbye Phone, Hello World

  • Sun-day Baking

    Adirondack Life 09/30/2020

    Test driving a solar oven

  • The Plant Prescription

    Eating Well 08/13/2020

    What going vegan for a year did for cardiovascular health

  • The Future Of American Food

    Successful Farming 08/04/2020

    An Ohio farmer and a Louisiana fisherman discuss a better future for land and sea

  • Sheltering in Place with the American Chestnut Tree

    Audubon 05/21/2020

    Hunkered down during COVID with a few fragile survivors of the devastating American chestnut plague

  • By the Numbers

    Adirondack Life 03/05/2020

    A look back at how I became a science writer (and not a scientist)

  • The Science Of The Mediterranean Diet

    Eating Well 02/13/2020

    How one of the healthiest diets in the world really works

  • Meet the Woman Who Brings You the Best Food Italy Has to Offer

    Food and Wine 12/04/2019

    Beatrice Ughi and Gustiamo

  • The Wrong Mine for the Wrong Place

    New York Times 05/06/2019

    A shout out to Donald Junior to stop Pebble Mine (with Mark Kurlansky, Carl Safina and John Waldman)

  • This Organism Just Might Save The Planet

    Patagonia 12/01/2018

    Mussels, and why they're so environmentally sexy

  • Keeping The Heart Of The Sea

    Nippon.com 11/09/2018

    A last ditch argument for not destroying Tokyo's Tsukiji fish market

  • Skiing In Quebec Where The Chef’s Table Is Just A Schuss Away

    New York Times 10/26/2018

    Exploring Quebec in winter on the slopes and at the table

  • Return of the Natives

    Adirondack Life 10/01/2018

    Restoring salmon to the Adirondack's Boquet River

  • Where Have All The Weakfish Gone?

    Vineyard Gazette 08/16/2018

    What should you think when your favorite fish goes missing?

  • Fool’s Gold

    The Guardian 07/25/2018

    What fish oil is doing to our health and the planet

  • How To Get America on the Mediterranean Diet

    New York Times 07/20/2018

    Opinion essay excerpted from The Omega Principle

  • This Mine Threatens America’s Largest Wild Salmon Run

    Mother Jones 06/27/2018

    Pebble Mine and the fight for Bristol Bay

  • Two Sides Of Marcy

    Adirondack Life 10/01/2017

    Climbing New York's highest peak as a child and as a father

  • How Much Should Major Polluters Pay

    Audubon 09/01/2017

    A biologist traced mercury from a company spill to contamination in songbirds, and devised a new way to hold polluters financially accountable

  • How Your Diet Contributes To Water Pollution

    Eating Well 06/29/2017

    Agricultural runoff is a major threat to our nation's lakes and rivers

  • Land Food Versus Seafood

    Hakai Magazine 05/18/2017

    The omegas battle it out in our budgets and our bodies

  • What Trump’s Budget Means for the Filet-O-Fish

    New York Times 04/25/2017

    Cutting NOAA hurts American fishermen and aquaculturists

  • Dam Busters

    Hakai Magazine 04/04/2017

    A fish-blocking dam comes down in Connecticut

  • A Brooklyn Chef’s Quest For Locally Caught Sushi

    The New Yorker 09/25/2016

    Local sushi is harder than you think

  • It’s Time For The FDA To Define “Natural”

    Time Magazine 05/14/2016

    From a regulatory perspective "natural" means nothing

  • Genetically Engineered Fish and the Strangeness of American Salmon

    The New Yorker 12/02/2015

    New genes aren't the only weird thing about US salmon

  • In Sicily Tasting Seafood with a Skeptical Son

    New York Times 10/15/2015

    The fish travels of a father and son

  • The Best Way To Discover Italy’s Most Unspoiled Province

    AFAR 10/12/2015

    Exploring Puglia by bike

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