Requiem for the Vaquita
for Scientific AmericanPublished: August 2017
What the demise of a small Mexican porpoise tells us about extinction in the 21st century
An Ocean Apart
for Virginia Quarterly ReviewPublished: Spring 2015
Can two forces threatening the sustainability of sharks—the fishermen of Mexico and consumers in China—help the fish survive?
Outsmarting the CERNageddon
for NuatilusPublished: August 2013
Physics: Can the Large Hadron Collider spawn black holes at full power? CERN investigates.
Hugh and the Boobies
for Hakai MagazinePublished: April 22, 2015
Like characters in a soap opera, boobies on a remote Mexican island cheat, kill, and jostle for power.
Feeding the Billions
for Scientific AmericanPublished: April 2015
How a small group of visionaries are trying to feed China—and save the world's oceans.
Losing Maya Heritage to Looters
for National GeographicPublished: August 8, 2014
Stolen artifacts are making it from the Guatemalan jungle to wealthy black-market buyers.
Wind power: Clean energy, dirty business?
for The Christian Science MonitorPublished: January 26, 2012
Like the oil drilling rig that became an icon of the Industrial Age, the giant, spinning wind turbinehas become a global image of clean power.
Gods of Blood And Stone
for Scientific AmericanPublished: July 2014
Long cloaked in mystery, the ancient Teotihuacán culture is at last giving up its secrets.
Genetically Modified Conservation
for Conservation Magazine & Utne Reader(Click here to see the original story)
In the mid-1940s, Norman Borlaug started the Green Revolution on a small farm in southern Mexico. His idea was simple. As the human population skyrocketed, he would grow a new kind of wheat with a thicker stem and bigger seed heads, thus increasing its yield …