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Articles and Essays
The Annual Sugarcane Burning in Florida Involves Stark Injustices (Sierra magazine, Summer 2024)
Where Is Malaysian Airlines Flight 370? (National Geographic, August 2023)
Europe's Water Crisis Is Much Worse Than We Thought, (National Geographic, December 2022)
Time to Reinvent Florida Once Again: The destruction of Hurricane Ian also offers opportunity for a more sustainable future, (Politico magazine, October 2022)
Why Seashells Are Getting Harder to find on the Seashore, (National Geographic, July 2022)
The Queen Conch's Gambit (Hakai, April 2022)
Crescendos of Crickets and Choruses of Frogs, (The New York Times, March 2022)
One of the World's Biggest Sea Snails at Risk of Extinction (National Geographic, April 2022)
Will Shell's oil future outlast its ocean namesakes? (The Los Angeles Times, December 2021)
"How Shells Tell Secrets of the Sea" (Excerpt, Science Friday, July 2021)
"The history, myth and future of giant clams" (Atlas Obscura, July 2021)
Why America's Water Wars Are Futile (The Tampa Bay Times, April 2021)
The Florida I Have Inside Me (A literary remembrance of Bill Belleville, Forum magazine, spring 2021)
The Nasty Political Fight Over the First Weather Forecasts (Politico, September 2019)
What Dorian Could Do: Hurricanes Galvanize Us to Action. Climate Change Can To. (The Atlantic, August 2019)
The Environmental Issue Republicans Can't Ignore. (The Atlantic, January 2019)
Candidates short-sighted on climate change's long-term impacts. (Columbia Journalism Review, October 2018)
On the Mysterious Glow of Giant Clams: The world’s largest mollusks are experts at turning sunshine and algae into fuel. (The Atlantic, September 2018)
Can the Caring Middle Save the Environment? (The Los Angeles Times, August 2018)
The 22 best U.S. national parks to escape the crowds. (The Guardian, May 2018)
Can we engineer a way to stop a hurricane? (National Geographic, October 2017)
Nature isn't on a rampage; that would be us (The Los Angeles Times Sunday Op-Ed, September 2017)
Saving Our Oceans: Why it's Important to Save Our Seas' Last Pristine Places (National Geographic magazine cover story, February 2017)
We may live in a post-truth era, but nature does not (The Los Angeles Times Sunday Op-Ed, February 2017)
Obama Creates Connecticut-Sized Ocean Park, Largest in the Atlantic (National Geographic September 2016)
Hawaii is Now Home to an Ocean Reserve the Size of Texas (National Geographic August 2016)
The Magic of Squeezing Water Out of the Sky (Zocalo Public Square February 2016)
The Toil & Trouble of Climate Denial (The Los Angeles Times Sunday Op-Ed, January 2016)
'The Weather Experiment' by Peter Moore (The New York Times Sunday Book Review, July 2015)
A Stormy History of Weather Reporting (Mental Floss, June 2015)
It's Not Just a 'California Drought.' (Los Angeles Times Sunday Op-Ed, May 2015)
How to Appreciate the Rain. (UK's The Big Issue, May 2015)
To Fight the Drought, L.A. Needs a Rain Revolution. (Wall Street Journal, April 2015)
Making Perfume from the Rain. (The Atlantic, April 2015)
Congress's Hare-Brained Scheme to Shoot Rain from the Skies. (Politico, April 2015)
Hey, America: It's time to talk about the price of water (Ensia magazine, Fall 2014)
Groundwater Wake-Up: A new view of global groundwater reveals an urgent need to reverse depletion trends (Ensia, Fall 2013)
Water Works: Communities Reimagine Ways of Making Every Drop Count (Orion magazine, July/August 2013)
America's Water Mirage (The Los Angeles Times Sunday Op-Ed, November 2012)