"THE SORT OF REPORTING I ADMIRE." --KNIGHT SCIENCE JOURNALISM TRACKER
OnEarth.org publishes columns, blogs, and a lively daily news digest called Today OnEarth. But our main focus is on producing in-depth stories that uncover environmental problems and solutions. Here are a few of the features that I have commissioned and edited:
Howls of Outrage By Michelle Nijhuis
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service relied on shaky science in its effort to boot wolves off the Endangered Species List. Here's the full story behind the biological brouhaha.
Return of the Ghost Fish By Brandon Keim
Will removing dams from the Penobscot River restore Atlantic salmon and other migratory fish—and through them, New England’s great forests—to their former glory?
What a Catch By Tim Sohn
A family that has been fishing Alaska’s wild waters for three generations is now shipping sockeye salmon to the heart of brownstone Brooklyn. Can it help save Bristol Bay?
What’s Killing Minnesota’s Moose? By Jessica Benko
The iconic monarch of the North Woods is dying at an alarming rate. Is it climate change, a brain-piercing parasite, or is something else to blame?
Fighting More Forest Fires Will Come Back to Burn Us By Michael Kodas
Facing bigger and badder blazes, the “fire industrial complex” is pushing for a return to the discarded snuff-’em-out policies of the past. Ecologists say that’s a disaster in the making.
TransCanada's Not Paying This Preacher to Save Souls By Ted Genoways
He preached sermons in a Nebraska church and performed weddings and funerals, but this Baptist minister is also a professional land agent helping pave the way for the proposed Keystone XL tar sands pipeline.
The New Pork Gospel By Barry Estabrook
Raising pigs crammed into metal pens and dosed with antibiotics nearly killed Russ Kremer. Now he preaches a better way. Chipotle, for one, is a believer.
EPA Lets Pesticides on the Market Untested By Laura Fraser
The agency is abusing a legal loophole to let products like nanosilver be used in clothing and baby blankets without ensuring their safety.
Fracking the Amish By Elizabeth Royte
In a community that shuns technology and conflict, the intrusion of gas wells shatters tranquility and brings unexpected schisms.
The Whistleblower: Oil, Lies, and Videotape By Ted Genoways
In July 2010, more than a million gallons of tar sands crude spilled into Michigan’s Kalamazoo River. A fired cleanup worker with a dark past claims he was ordered to cover up oil to meet federal deadlines. (First in a three-part series later published as an e-book.)
Antibacterial Soap: Safe Suds or Snake Oil? By Laura Fraser
The main ingredient in many antibacterial soaps is not only useless, it’s bad for you.
Lake Erie Deathwatch By Barry Yeoman
Brought back from the brink once before, a Great Lake again faces biological collapse.
The Forest Service Is Fighting Every Fire--But at What Cost? By Richard Manning
The agency abandons a long-held policy to let nature take its course on public wilderness lands.
Grolar Bears and Narlugas: Rise of the Arctic Hybrids By Bruce Barcott
Climate change appears to be igniting a sexual revolution among Arctic mammals--and that’s not good news for some endangered species.
You Want Superbugs With That? By Barry Estabrook
Feeding antibiotics to healthy livestock is leading to an emerging human health crisis--one scientists and the government have seen coming for decades.
Tar Sands Showdown in the Nebraska Sandhills By Ted Genoways
At a heated hearing in the heart of Cornhusker country, one cowboy poet gives local outrage an eloquent voice.
Howls of Outrage By Michelle Nijhuis
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service relied on shaky science in its effort to boot wolves off the Endangered Species List. Here's the full story behind the biological brouhaha.
Return of the Ghost Fish By Brandon Keim
Will removing dams from the Penobscot River restore Atlantic salmon and other migratory fish—and through them, New England’s great forests—to their former glory?
What a Catch By Tim Sohn
A family that has been fishing Alaska’s wild waters for three generations is now shipping sockeye salmon to the heart of brownstone Brooklyn. Can it help save Bristol Bay?
What’s Killing Minnesota’s Moose? By Jessica Benko
The iconic monarch of the North Woods is dying at an alarming rate. Is it climate change, a brain-piercing parasite, or is something else to blame?
Fighting More Forest Fires Will Come Back to Burn Us By Michael Kodas
Facing bigger and badder blazes, the “fire industrial complex” is pushing for a return to the discarded snuff-’em-out policies of the past. Ecologists say that’s a disaster in the making.
TransCanada's Not Paying This Preacher to Save Souls By Ted Genoways
He preached sermons in a Nebraska church and performed weddings and funerals, but this Baptist minister is also a professional land agent helping pave the way for the proposed Keystone XL tar sands pipeline.
The New Pork Gospel By Barry Estabrook
Raising pigs crammed into metal pens and dosed with antibiotics nearly killed Russ Kremer. Now he preaches a better way. Chipotle, for one, is a believer.
EPA Lets Pesticides on the Market Untested By Laura Fraser
The agency is abusing a legal loophole to let products like nanosilver be used in clothing and baby blankets without ensuring their safety.
Fracking the Amish By Elizabeth Royte
In a community that shuns technology and conflict, the intrusion of gas wells shatters tranquility and brings unexpected schisms.
The Whistleblower: Oil, Lies, and Videotape By Ted Genoways
In July 2010, more than a million gallons of tar sands crude spilled into Michigan’s Kalamazoo River. A fired cleanup worker with a dark past claims he was ordered to cover up oil to meet federal deadlines. (First in a three-part series later published as an e-book.)
Antibacterial Soap: Safe Suds or Snake Oil? By Laura Fraser
The main ingredient in many antibacterial soaps is not only useless, it’s bad for you.
Lake Erie Deathwatch By Barry Yeoman
Brought back from the brink once before, a Great Lake again faces biological collapse.
The Forest Service Is Fighting Every Fire--But at What Cost? By Richard Manning
The agency abandons a long-held policy to let nature take its course on public wilderness lands.
Grolar Bears and Narlugas: Rise of the Arctic Hybrids By Bruce Barcott
Climate change appears to be igniting a sexual revolution among Arctic mammals--and that’s not good news for some endangered species.
You Want Superbugs With That? By Barry Estabrook
Feeding antibiotics to healthy livestock is leading to an emerging human health crisis--one scientists and the government have seen coming for decades.
Tar Sands Showdown in the Nebraska Sandhills By Ted Genoways
At a heated hearing in the heart of Cornhusker country, one cowboy poet gives local outrage an eloquent voice.
