Stories by Our Fellows
2013
Lauren Markham
- "Nowhere to Turn" (Guernica, April 2013)
- "Surrogates" episode, (This American Life, co-producer of 'Prologue', January 2013
Phil McKenna
- "Uprising: How a community college drop-out revealed the climate hazard beneath our feet" (February 2013)
2012
Wes Enzinna
- "Last Ones Left in Treece, Kan,, a Toxic Town" (The New York Times, May 2012)
Angela Evancie
- "Red Heart The Ticker: Raising the Dead via Folk Music"
(NPR, January 2012)
Sasha Chavkin
- "Costa Rica to study kidney disease afflicting sugarcane workers" (iWatch News by The Center for Public Integrity, February 2012)
Kathryn Flagg
- "Blow Hard: Why are Vermonters still fighting about wind?" (Seven Days, March 2012)
- "Leaving RutVegas: A blue collar city reinvents itself" (Seven Days, February 2012)
Sarah Harris
- "Can A Small Town Survive Without Its Bank?" (NPR, March 2012)
- "Sailing on Ice? Yeah, That's a Sport." (NPR, February 2012)
Holly Haworth
- "Coal Ash Dumps Across the Nation Are Looking to Expand" (Earth Island Journal, June 2012)
- "In Search of Darkness" (Parabola, Spring 2012)
- "A Message of Rebirth" (Flycatcher, Winter 2012)
Molly Loomis
- "Where's Rudolph? Inside the Decline of Alaska's Caribou" (Smithsonian, December 2012)
Andrew Mambondiyani
- "Zimbabwe: Bringing Hydropower to the People" (Think Africa Press, May 2012)
- "The Pollution Fallout from Zimbabwe's Blood Diamonds" (Yale e360, May 2012)
Lauren Markham
- "No Longer Praying for Rain" (Earth Island Journal, November 2012)
- "In Rural California, Liberian Family Finds Agricultural Refuge," (High Country News, Summer 2012)
Phil McKenna
- "The Fight to Save the Tiger" (Smithsonian, April 2012)
Jeremy Miller
- "Following the Old Spanish Trail across the Southwest" (High Country News, March 2012)
- "The long draw: On the trail of an artistic mystery in the American West" (Harper's Magazine, January 2012)
Sierra Crane Murdoch
- "The Other Bakken Boom: America's biggest oil rush brings tribal conflict" (High Country News, April 2012)
Molly Samuel
- "In the Rural Anderson Valley, Locals Rally to Save Their Park" (The California Report, March 2012)
- "Ringtail Research" (The Oakland Standard, January 2012)
Malia Wollan
- "Troubled History Emerges For Suspect in Fatal Attack" (New York Times, April 2012)
- "Gunman Kills 7 at a Rampage at a Northern California University" (New York Times, April 2012)
- "Maker Pulls Pesticide Amid Fear of Toxicity" (New York Times, March 2012)
- "California - Sheriff Won't Quit" (New York Times, March 2012)
- "On the West Coast, Looking for Flotsam of a Disaster" (New York Times, March 2012)
- "California - Suit over Pepper Spraying" (New York Times, February 2012)
- "In Serial Killers' Graveyard, A Town's Wounds Reopen" (New York Times, February 2012)
- "Burning Man Ticket Lottery Problems Angers Regulars" (New York Times, February 2012)
- "Wildlife Activists Follow Lone Wolf" (New York Times, January 2012)
2011
Jessica Benko:
- "Scandinavia's Sami Reindeer Herders" (National Geographic, November 2011)
- "A 4-Track Mind" (Radiolab, July 2011)
Emanuele Bompan:
- "Tests Begin at Wyoming Carbon Storage Site as Challenges Loom Large" (Inside Climate News, August 2011)
- "Michelle Obama and the fight against obesity." (Bio Eco Geo Magazine, April 2011)
- "Altro che auto blu" (IL Magazine, April 2011)
- "Gas, renewable, and oil. The strategy of Obama" (Terra, April 2011)
Sasha Chavkin:
- "Thousands of sugar cane workers die as wealthy nations stall on solutions" (iWatch News by The Center for Public Integrity, December 2011)
- "U.S. Nuclear-Disaster Preparedness Hobbled by Uncertain Chain of Command" (ProPublica, April 2011)
- "Disabled Former Cop in Student Loan Story Gets Her Debt Forgiven" (ProPublica, March 2011)
- "Education Dept. Pledges to Overhaul Dysfunctional Disability Review Program" (ProPublica, February 2011)
- "Education Dept. Bureaucracy Keeps Disabled Borrowers in Debt" (ProPublica, February 2011)
Bart DiFiore:
- "The Hottest Blood" (Virginia Quarterly Review, Summer 2011)
Wes Enzinna:
- "On John Ross" (n+1, June 2011)
Angela Jane Evancie:
- "Einstein on the Porch" (Middlebury Magazine, Summer 2011)
- "The Farm as a Gathering Space" (Vermont Public Radio, August 2011)
- "New direction for an old farm" (North Country Public Radio, July 2011)
- "Teaching Diversity" (Vermont Public Radio, May 2011)
- "Bikes break down migrant worker barriers" (North Country Public Radio, May 2011)
- "Barred Owls Appearing in Unexpected Places" (Vermont Public Radio, March 2011)
- "Learning to Walk" (The Beautiful Brain, January 2011)
Adam Federman:
- "Think global, eat local" (Adirondack Explorer, Spring 2011)
- "Pressure Mounts on Khimki Developers" (Waging Nonviolence, April 2011)
- "Russia's Khimki Forest Threatened by Highway Project" (The Nation, May 2011)
- "Alexey Navalny: Russia's Julian Assange?" (Nation Institute Investigative Fund, June 2011)
- "The Most Dangerous Game" (Earth Island Journal, Summer 2011)
- Book Review, "You Are Here: Why We Can Find Our Way to the Moon, But Get Lost in the Mall" (Earth Island Journal, March 2011)
- "Between Plenty and Poverty: Foraging in the Salento with Patience Gray" (Gastronomica, February 2011)
- "Oil and Gas Companies Illegally Using Diesel in Fracking" (Alternet, February 2011)
Kathryn Flagg:
- "Carbon sequestration research stands on rocky ground" (Wyoming Public Media, December 2011)
- "The Rainmakers" (Orion, November/December 2011)
- "A new Prairie Dog management program has stirred reaction" (Wyoming Public Media, September 2011)
- "The Trouble with Butchers" (Vermont Life, Spring 2011)
Lucy Flood:
- "Tests Begin at Wyoming Carbon Storage Site as Challenges Loom Large" (Inside Climate News, August 2011)
- "The Navy's Green Device: Coming to a Store Near You?" (The Atlantic, July 2011)
- "Reaching Beyond" (Teton Valley Magazine, Summer 2011)
Sarah Harris
- "A Family's Fight to Clear the Air" (NPR, November 2011)
Holly Haworth
- "Coal Ash Contamination - Coming to a Groundwater Source Near You" (Earth Island Journal, September 2011)
Mason Inman:
- "Opening the future" (Nature Climate Change, March 2011)
- The Climate Post (Huffington Post, ongoing)
Andy Kroll:
- "Flatlining the Middle Class" (Tomgram, October 2011)
- "What We Don't Talk About When We Talk About Jobs" (Tomgram, August 2011)
- "The Badger State's Bloody Stalemate" (Tomgram, August 2011)
- "How the McEconomy Bombed the American Worker" (TomDispatch, May 2011)
- Ongoing reporting at Mother Jones, DC Bureau
Molly Loomis:
- "Ghost Bird" (Sierra, November/December 2011)
- "A Piece of Quiet" (Backpacker, October 2011)
- "Southern Exposure" (Climbing, October 2011)
- "National Parks: Grand Teton" (Backpacker, June 2011)
- "Inside the ER at Mt. Everest" (Smithsonian, June 2011)
- "Fifty Years of Arctic National Wildlife Preservation" (Smithsonian, March 2011)
- "Boom and Bust: Reshaping Development Patterns in Teton Valley" (New West, March 2011)
- "Black gold, Black Diamonds" (Powder Magazine, February 2011)
- "Diamonds in the Dust" (Climbing, February 2011)
- "Oman's resources include warmth, adventure" (The Boston Globe, January 2011)
- "Alone on the tundra, ready to ride Arctic rivers" (The Boston Globe, January 2011)
- "Native Alaskans and Offshore Drilling" (Living on Earth, January 2011)
Andrew Mambondiyani
- "Discovering Gas in Mozambique" (Think Africa Press, December 2011)
- "TB-Fighting African Rats Head to Mozambique" (Think Africa Press, November 2011)
- "Illegal Diamond Mining in Zimbabwe" (Open Democracy, November 2011)
- "Zanu Reforms Threaten Timber Industry" (Think Africa Press, August 2011)
- "Biti Mines into the Details of the Zimbabwean Diamond Industry" (Think Africa Press, August 2011)
Phil McKenna:
- "A Buddhist Monk Saves One of the World's Rarest Birds" (Smithsonian, October 2011)
- "'U.S. Navy chief: I'm on a mission to stop using oil'" (NewScientist, May 2011)
- "Hybrid Power for the Frontline" (Technology Review, March 2011)
- "Schwarzenegger calls for fossil fuel termination" (New Scientist, March 2011)
Jeremy Miller:
- "The endless atlas: A review of Infinite City: A San Francisco Atlas" (High Country News, May 2011)
- "Fast Times at California's Petroleum High" (High Country News, February 2011)
- "The Colonization of Kern County" (Orion, January/February 2011)
- "Mixing Oil and Water" (Living on Earth, February 2011)
Robert Moor:
- "Mother Nature's Sons" (n+1, Summer 2011)
Sierra Crane Murdoch:
- "The Spirit of a Mining Town" (World Vision Report, February 2011)
- "In the Name of the Father" (Middlebury Magazine, Winter 2011)
- "Teaching climate change in coal country" (High Country News, February 2011)
- "Even Tea Partiers are Conservationists" (High Country News, February 2011)
- "From science to action in environmental justice" (High Country News, February 2011)
- "Bad Omens for Arch Coal" (High Country News, January 2011)
- "A New Era for Indian Country?" (High Country News, January 2011)
- "In Western water law, 'first come, first serve' has limits" (High Country News, January 2011)
- Additional reporting at High Country News
Annie Murphy:
- "Demand for Quinoa: A Boon for Bolivian Farmers" (NPR, January 2011)
April Rabkin
- "Cramming for College at Beijing's Second High" (Fast Company, August 2011)
- "Transforming Sustainable Energy in Afghanistan" (Fast Company, April 2011)
Kevin Charles Redmon:
- "This Man Has Created a Monster" (Middlebury Magazine, Summer 2011)
- "The Ties that Bind" (The Millions, August 2011)
- "The Sherlock of St. Paul" (Minnesota Monthly, April 2011)
- "Cerro Chirripo, Costa Rica's highest peak, rewards hikers with marvelous views" (Washington Post, March 2011)
- "As Kindle Takes Over, What Happens to Margin Notes?" (The Atlantic, March 2011)
- "Is Yemen the Next Afghanistan?" (Middlebury Magazine, Winter 2011)
- "In Iraq, Torture and Secret Prisons Continue" (The Atlantic, February 2011)
Molly Samuel:
- "Climate Change Impacts Sequoia National Park" (The California Report, December 2011)
- "Restoring Butterflies" (The Oakland Standard, December 2011)
- "Berkeley's Shotgun Players celebrates 20 years on stage" (KALW News, December 2011)
- "San Francisco's Jewish Theatre company puts on its last show" (KALW News, November 2011)
- "Surviving public transportation as a senior" (KALW News, October 2011)
- "Unlocking the legacy of Houdini" (KALW News, October 2011)
- "At the Peak of Climate Change" (The California Report, September 2011)
- "Between the Lanfills and the Salt Hills" (The Oakland Standard, July 2011)
- "The Good Shepherd" (Snap Judgement, June 2011)
- "Mice Make Trouble in the Farallones" (KQED, May 2011)
- "Inside Taft High" (High Country News, February 2011)
Kate Sheppard:
- "Your Tax Dollars at Work: A Giant Coal Plant in South Africa" (Mother Jones, December 2011)
- "Why Are White Guys Climate Skeptics?" (Mother Jones, August 2011)
"Star Polar Bear Scientist in the Dog House" (Mother Jones, July 2011) - "An Oil Slick Runs Through It" (Mother Jones, July 2011)
- Ongoing reporting at Mother Jones, DC Bureau
Christopher Weber:
- "Rust Belt Rising" (OnEarth, Summer 2011)
- "Aquaponics taking root in Chicago" (Chicago Tribune, May 2011)
- "Augmented nose sniffs out illegal stenches" (New Scientist, February 2011)
- "Dirty Secrets Under the Schoolyard" (E Magazine, January 2011)
Malia Wollan:
- "'Occupy' Groups Face Setbacks in San Francisco and Boston" (New York Times, December 2011)
- "Occupy Oakland Angers Labor Leaders" (New York Times, December 2011)
- "For Start-Ups, Sorting the Data Cloud is the Next Big Thing" (New York Times, December 2011)
- "Police Clear Occupy Oakland Encampment, but Protesters Return" (New York Times, November 2011)
- "Occupy Wall Street Protests Shift to College Campuses" (New York Times, November 2011)
- "Protesters in Oakland Confront Police" (New York Times, November 2011)
- "Three Die in California Workplace Rampage" (New York Times, October 2011)
- "At Qualcomm, Rise of Founder's Son Defies Hazards of Succession" (New York Times, June 2011)
- "Grafitti's Cozy, Feminine Side" (New York Times, May 2011)
- "Help from the U.S. for Afflicted Sister Cities in Japan" (New York Times, March 2011)
- "Oakland's Plans to Cash In on Marijuana Farms Hits Federal Roadblock" (New York Times, March 2011)
- "Painting a Porterhouse: Mark Ryden on Meat" (Meatpaper, Issue 14)
- "How Pantelion Films Lures Latinos to the Box Office" (Fast Company, January 2011)
- "Computers Get Permanent Hall of Fame" (New York Times, January 2011)
- "Mark Twain, Now a Career for the Mustachioed" (New York Times, January 2011)
2010
Bidisha Banerjee:
- "The Great Wall of India" (Slate, December 2010)
- "ENMOD Squad: Could an obscure treaty protect developing countries from geoengineering gone wrong?" (Slate, September 2010)
- "Black Carbon's Grey Areas: Part I" (Yale Forum on Climate Change & The Media, July 2010)
- "Black Carbon's Grey Areas: Part II" (Yale Forum on Climate Change & The Media, July 2010)
- "Anatomy of IPCC's Mistake on Himalayan Glaciers and Year 2035" (Yale Forum on Climate Change & The Media, February 2010)
Jessica Benko:
- "Mother of God, Child of Zeus" (Virginia Quarterly Review, Fall 2010)
Emanuele Bompan:
- "The financing of major attempts to become greener" (Terra, November 2010)
- "Schwarzenegger launched the alliance of the regions" (Terra, November 2010)
- "Milan starts from Pisapia" (Terra, November 2010)
- "Green Report" (IL-Intelligence in Lifestyle, September 2010)
Sasha Chavkin:
- "Tracking the BP Claims Process: An Ongoing Series" (ProPublica, July 2010 - Present)
- "New Killer: Climate Change Threatens Homes and Livelihoods" (YaleGlobal, July 2010)
Wes Enzinna:
- "Big Meat on Campus" (Mother Jones, November/December 2010)
Angela Jane Evancie
- "Greening the Afterlife" (A series for North Country Public Radio, August-October 2010)
Adam Federman:
- "Khimki forest defenders felled by Kremlin, but struggle will continue" (Waging Nonviolence, December 2010)
- "The Upper Delaware and Natural Gas Drilling" (WBAI New York with Hugh Hamilton, November 2010)
- "Bridge Fuel to Nowhere" (The Nation, October 2010)
- "Reading Russia's Protest Movement" (Waging Nonviolence, September 2010)
- "A rare victory for the environment and civil society in Russia" (Waging Nonviolence, August 2010)
- "Russia's forest defenders: A campaign to save Moscow's Khimki Forest heats up" (Waging Nonviolence, August 2010)
- "Lost" (Adirondack Life, September/October 2010)
- "Choose Your Friends Wisely" (Earth Island Journal, August 2010)
- "The Upper Delaware's Last Stand" (Earth Island Journal, June 2010)
Vanessa Gregory:
- "Indefensible" (American Prospect, December 2010)
- "Ultra Committed" (Runner's World, December 2010)
- "Southern Food: The Movie" (The Atlantic Blog, June 2010)
- "Rugged Country, Rugged History in California's Owens Valley" (The New York Times,May 2010)
- "Visiting Audubon's Still-Fine Feathered Friends" (New York Times, April 2010)
- "Winning Without Wheat" (Men's Journal, February 2010)
Mason Inman:
- "Has the World Already Passed Peak Oil?" (National Geographic News, November 2010)
- "Mining the truth on coal supplies" (National Geographic News, September 2010)
- "Skill Up, Party Down" (YES! Magazine, September 2010)
- "Warming solution: just stop cold?" (National Geographic News, September 2010)
- "Sudden climate shifts can occur without warning" (American Geophysical Union, September 2010)
- "Pakistan flooding because of farms?" (National Geographic News, September 2010)
- "Can Geoengineering Halt Sea-Level Rise?" (Science NOW, August 2010)
- "Too Green to Fail" (The Economist, July 2010)
- "Asian water shortages may not be as bad as previously thought"
(National Geographic News, June 2010) - "To Keep Power On, Pakistan Tries Lights Out" (National Geographic News, May 2010)
- "Saving Fuel on the Farm by Making Hay" (National Geographic News, May 2010)
- "Early Hurricane Forecasting: Don't bet the farm on it" (American Geophysical Union, April 2010)
- "Working with Water" (Nature Reports, April 2010)
- "The geoengineering genie" (Nature Reports Climate Change, April 2010)
- "Settling the Science on Himalayan Glaciers" (Nature Reports Climate Change, March 2010)
- "Strongest Hurricanes May Double in Frequency" (National Geographic News, January 2010)
Andy Kroll
- "The Face of An American Lost Generation" (TomDispatch.com, October 2010)
- "Farewell, Bailout Nation?" (Mother Jones, October 2010)
- "A Crack in Wall Street's Foreclosure Pipeline" (Mother Jones, September 2010)
- "Boehner on Lobbying: Nothing to Say" (Mother Jones, September 2010)
- "Fannie and Freddie's Foreclosure Barons" (Mother Jones, August 2010)
- Ongoing Reporting at Mother Jones, DC Bureau
Molly Loomis:
- "The Murie Center's Expedition to Arctic National Wildlife Refuge" (August 2010)
- "Critical Alaska Habitat Spared from Oil and Natural Gas Development" (National Geographic News, July 2010)
- "Qinghai Province, China" (Sierra, July/August 2010)
- "Eco Checkup: Gauging the health of the Tetons" (Jackson Hole Magazine, Summer/Fall 2010)
- "China's Culture Hub" (Afar, July/August 2010)
- "Solar Decathalon: Cutting Edge Homes of Tomorrow" (Natural Home Magazine, March/April 2010)
Phil McKenna:
- "Turbines could tap the Mississippi's power" (Technology Review, November 2010)
- "Emission control: turning carbon trash into treasure" (New Scientist, October 2010)
- "Pioneer aquanut: how not to clean up an oil spill" (New Scientist, July 2010)
- "Gulf leak: biggest spill may not be biggest disaster" (New Scientist, June 2010)
- "Why deep-water oil spills do their damage deep down" (New Scientist, May 2010)
- "New life for old tires" (Technology Review, April 2010)
- "Drilling deep under the U.S. to dispose of nuclear waste" (New Scientist, April 2010)
- "Xu Xing: Unearthing how dinosaurs became birds" (New Scientist, February 2010)
- "Solar Shingles See the Light of Day" (MIT Technology Review, January 2010)
Jeremy Miller:
- "Oil and Water Don't Mix with California Agriculture" (High Country News, December 2010)
- "Down the Black Hole" (High Country News, October 2010)
- "Once More Unto the Breach" (High Country News, October 2010)
- "Ghost Story" (5280 Magazine, July 2010)
- "Mountains of mercury: The pollution costs of cement production" (High Country News, January 2010)
Nick Miroff:
- "Cuba's Rescue Plan Opens Doors to Market Reforms" (NPR,
- November 2010)
- "Cuba: Saving socialism, with help from the free market" (GlobalPost, November 2010)
- "Dancers Leap Over U.S.-Cuba Political Barriers" (NPR, November 2010)
- "Mexican drug cartel forces lawyer's video confessions" (Washington Post, October 2010)
- "Threat grows as Mexican cartel beefs up U.S. presence" (NPR, November 2010)
- "Cubans Flock to Evangelism to Fill Spiritual Vacuum" (NPR, October 2010)
- "Racked by drug violence, Mexico wary of Calif. vote on legalizing marijuana" (Washington Post, September 2010)
- "Drug lord 'La Barbie' takes spotlight in Mexico City" (Washington Post, September 2010)
- "Reform on the Range: Cubans Heed the Call to Farm" (NPR, September 2010)
- "Castro Appearance Adds Speculation About Role" (NPR, September 2010)
- "Cuba Celebrates Fidel Castro's 84th Birthday" (GlobalPost, August 2010)
- "Cartels' cash flows across borders" (Washington Post, August 2010)
- "Drug courriers using disguises to move along border" (Washington Post, August 2010)
- "Stepped-up efforts by U.S., Mexico fail to stem flow of drug money south" (Washington Post, August 2010)
- "Mexican drug cartels' newest weapon: Cold War-era grenades made in U.S." (Washington Post, July 2010)
- "Oil spill: a boon for Cuba?" (GlobalPost, June 2010)
- "Cuba in cycles: a writer looks back" (GlobalPost, June 2010)
- "Catholic Church Widens Its Role in Cuban Politics" (NPR, June 2010)
- "Spreading Digital Revolution in a Cuban Living Room" (NPR, April 2010)
- "In Raul Castro's Cuba, A Limit on New Freedoms" (NPR, April 2010)
- "Spreading Digital Revolution in a Cuban Living Room" (NPR, April 2010)
Sierra Murdoch:
- "If It Began in Appalachia" (The Solutions Journal, November 2010)
- "Farewell to the Assembly Line" (Next American City, Fall 2010)
- "A Desperate Clinch: Coal Production Confronts Water Scarcity" (Circle of Blue, August 2010)
- "Hollowed Ground" (Middlebury Magazine, Summer 2010)
Annie Murphy:
- "Father Copper" (Virginia Quarterly Review, Fall 2010)
- "New Hope Digs in for Trapped Miners" (NPR, October 2010)
- "Trapped Miners in Chile: families camp out above ground - awaiting loved ones' rescue" (Christian Science Monitor, September 2010)
- "For Chile, Colossal Trouble on Easter Island" (NPR, September 2010)
- "Chilean Miners Mark a Month Underground" (NPR, September 2010)
- "Chile: Frustration Grows over Slow Quake Recovery" (NPR, September 2010)
- "Letters of Love Carried by 'Doves' to Chilean Miners" (NPR, August 2010)
- "One Laptop" (World Vision Report, August 2010)
- "Iquitos, Peru: Gateway to the Amazon" (NPR, July 2010)
- "Toll Of Oil Drilling Felt In Peru's Amazon Basin" (NPR, June 2010)
- "Iquitos, Peru: Gateway to the Amazon" (NPR, July 2010)
- "Not Since Pinochet, Chile's Army Back on the Streets" (NPR, March 2010)
Emily Peterson:
- "Can the Louisiana Coast Be Saved?" (Middlebury Magazine, Fall 2010)
- "Think Oysters, Not Oil" (Grist, June 2010)
Catherine Price:
- "101 Places Not to See Before You Die" (Published by HarperPaperbacks)
- "What Would It Take for You to Be Still?" (O, The Oprah Magazine, August 2010)
- "The No Plan Vacation" (O, The Oprah Magazine, May 2010)
- "White Whiskey" (Men's Journal, April 2010)
- "Rebooting the Body" (Popular Science, February 2010)
April Rabkin
- "Election Posters Highlight Propaganda Surrounding Afghan Election" (Bagnews, September 2010)
- "A Visit to the Shrine of Afghanistan's National Hero" (Slate, September 2010)
- "China's TV Host Stays True to Self to Build Empire" (Fast Company, September 2010)
- "Cozying Up to the Taliban" (Foreign Policy, August 2010)
- "China's High-Growth Ghost Towns" (Foreign Policy, February 2010)
Kevin Redmon
- "The Shadow Government" (Middlebury Magazine, May 2010)
- "The New Abu Ghraib" (The Atlantic, May 2010)
- "Coffee Obsessives" (Washingtonian, April 2010)
- "Baristas mix it up at D.C. latte art throwdowns" (Washington Post, March 2010)
- "Who Am I?" (Middlebury Magazine, Winter 2010)
Molly Samuel
- "Island Fox" (Encyclopedia of Life, December 2010)
- "Pika Politics" (High Country News, April 2010)
- "Audio Postcard: Bodie, CA" (High Country News, April 2010)
Christopher Weber:
- "Why the BP and GM Chrysler Bankruptcies Foreshadow Big Problems for the Gulf Cleanup" (Huffington Post, July 2010)
Malia Wollan:
- "Growing Up Digital, Wired for Distraction" (New York Times, November 2010)
- "Mapping Traffic's Toll on Wildlife." (New York Times, September 2010)
- "Inquiry Sifting Cause of Blast in the Bay Area" (New York Times, September 2010)
- "After Blast, Uneasiness for Residents Going Home" (New York Times, September 2010)
- "Dispute Over Pesticide for California Strawberries Has Implications Beyond State" (New York Times, June 2010)
- "A Place With Good Vibrations" (New York Times, April 2010)
- "A Strange Brew May Be a Good Thing" (New York Times, March 2010)
- "Grapevine Moth Forces Quarantine for Part of Napa Valley" (New York Times, March 2010)
2009
Mason Inman:
- “Hot, Flat, Crowded—and Preparing for the Worst” (Science, October 2009) *Recipient of IUCN-Reuters Award for Excellence in Environmental Reporting
- “The Climate Change Game” (Nature Reports, October 2009)
- “Five Last-Ditch Schemes to Avert Warming Disaster” (National Geographic News, September 2009)
- "Sea Power” (World Watch, May/June 2009)
- “Hot New High-Tech Energy Source Is ... Wood?” (National Geographic News, March 2009)
- “Where Warming Hits Hard” (Nature Reports, January 2009)
Sam Kean:
-
"Eco-Alchemy in Alberta" (Science, November 2009)
Carolyn Kormann:
- “Retreat of Andean Glaciers Foretells Global Water Woes” (Yale Environment 360, April 2009)
-
“Last Days of the Glacier” (Virginia Quarterly Review, Spring 2009)
Molly Loomis:
- “Green on White: A 350.org Action on the Apex of Antarctica” (Wend Magazine, Fall 2009)
- “The Hoary Headed Fathers: An Historical Guide to Classic Tetons Moderates” (Climbing, September 2009)
Phil McKenna:
- "Massive poisoning need to keep carp invaders from Great Lakes" (New Scientist, December 2009)
- "Keep on trucking" (New Scientist, September 2009)
- "'Eating wildlife is part of Chinese culture'" (New Scientist, July 2009)
- "Could your trashcan solve the energy crisis?" (New Scientist, April 2009)
- "Letting the Dogs out (to Sea)" (NWF, April 2009)
Jeremy Miller:
- “The Violent Twilight of Oil” (The New York Times, Green Inc: October 2009)
- “Restoring an Ailing River in California” (The New York Times, Green Inc: October 2009)
- “Rebooting Urban Watersheds” (High Country News, June 2009)
- “On the Waterfront” (High Country News, June 2009)
- “Water Scarcity and the Western Oil Shales” (The New York Times, Green Inc: June 2009)
Nick Miroff:
- "Scientists Work to Protect Cuba's Unspoiled Reefs" (NPR, December 2009)
- “Postcard from Cuba” (NPR, August 2009)
- “Cuba’s Resorts Welcome a New Clientele: Cubans” (NPR, August 2009)
- “Troubled Waters” (Global Post, July 2009)
Annie Murphy:
- “Lithium can charge Bolivian economy” (Marketplace, May 2009)
- "Bolivian farmers fueled up by soybeans" (Marketplace, January 2009)
Lygia Navarro:
- “Inheritance of Dust” (Virginia Quarterly Review, Fall 2009)
- “Tropical Depression” Virginia Quarterly Review, Winter 2009
Catherine Price:
- “Moonshine Returns” (Salon, September 2009)
- “Regulating Biosolids” (Grist, May 2009)
- “Sludge—Farmer’s Friend or Toxic Slime?” (Grist, May 2009)
- “Businesses struggle to profit from sewage sludge” (Grist, May 2009)
- “For some eco-pioneers, solving the sludge problem means getting their hands dirty” (Grist, May 2009)
- “The Locavore’s Dilemma” (Slate, March 2009)
April Rabkin:
- "China’s Top Muckrakers Stop Digging" (Foreign Policy, September 2009)
Shadi Rahimi:
- “Winneman Wintu sues for destruction of cultural sites” (Indian Country Today, May 2009)
Kevin Redmon:
- “Being Katy Abbott” (Middlebury Magazine, Fall 2009)
- "Then They Can Ride" (Middlebury Magazine, Summer 2009)
- "Grape Expectations" (Middlebury Magazine, Spring 2009)
Molly Samuel:
- “Autobiography of a Place” (KQED, September 2009)
- “Edible Expectations at the Conservatory of Flowers” (KQED, May 2009)
- “Human/Nature” (KQED, April 2009)
Heather Smith:
- “Looks Great, Less Nutritious?” (Mother Jones, September/October 2009)
Forrest Wilder:
- “The Fire This Time” (The Texas Observer, August 2009)
- “Injured Hearts, Injured Minds” (The Texas Observer, August 2009)
- “Silent Springs” (The Texas Observer, May 2009)
Malia Wollan:
- “Rebuilding – Out of the Ashes” (The New York Times Magazine, October 2009)
- "Parents Burning to Write It All Down" (New York Times, October 2009)
- "The Big Draw of a GPS Run" (New York Times, August 2009)
- "San Francisco to Toughen a Strict Recycling Law" (New York Times, June 2009)
- "San Francisco Studies Fees to Ease Traffic" (New York Times, January 2009)
- "An Underwater Fight is Waged for the Health of San Francisco Bay" (New York Times, August 2009)
2008
Sasha Chavkin:
- “Beat the Heat” (America’s Quarterly, Winter 2008)
Molly Loomis:
- “Small, Secondhand, and Spectacular” (Natural Home, September/October 2008)
Andrew Mambondiyani:
- “Zimbabwe’s Desperate Miners Ravage the Land” (Yale Environment 360, November 2008)
Phil McKenna:
- “It Takes Just One Village to Save a Species” (The New York Times, September 2008)
Jeremy Miller:
- “Tyranny of the test – one year as a Kaplan coach in the public schools” (Harper’s, September 2008)
- “Filling New York’s ‘Vacancies’” (Gotham’s Gazette, January 2008)
Catherine Price:
- “The Anonymity Experiment” (Popular Science, February 2008)
April Rabkin:
- “China’s Inside Game” (The New York Times, July 2008)
Shadi Rahimi:
- “Follow the Money Deep Underground” (Mother Jones, December 2008)
- “Awaiting Klamath dam removal” (Indian Country Today, December 2008)
- “2008 Bioneers Conference hosts first indigenous tent” (Indian Country Today, October 2008)
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“Courts OK use of sewage sludge on sacred mountain” (Indian Country Today, August 2008)
Heather Smith:
- “To Bee or Not to Bee”(Gourmet, August 2008)
- “To Eat Local, Kill Local” (San Francisco Magazine, August 2008)
Adam Welz:
- "Ethanol’s African Land Grab" (Mother Jones, March/April 2009)
Forrest Wilder:
- “How the Waste Was Won” (The Texas Observer, March 2009)
Malia Wollan:
- “An Underwater Fight Is Waged for the Health of the San Francisco Bay” (The New York Times, August 2008)
- “How Globalization Kills Chickens for Their Parts” (Meatpaper, June 2008)
2007
Mason Inman:
- “Global Warming ‘Tipping Points’ Reached, Scientist Says” (National Geographic News, December 2007)
Heather Smith:
- “Bee Not Afraid” (Slate, July 2007)




