Why Nothing Works

for Discover
Published: July 2014


Once dismissed as a psychological curiosity, the placebo effect is now recognized as the key to the brain’s “inner pharmacy.” If only doctors knew how to open the medicine cabinet.

Emptying the World’s Aquarium (Spanish Version)

for Harper's Magazine

Por Erik Vance (Puedes compartir este artículo.  Si lo haces, sólo te agradecería avisarme antes en erik@erikvance.com y citarme en los créditos como Erik Vance.)
Al igual que la mayoría de los pescadores locales en Kino, un tranquilo pueblo de Sonora a mitad de la parte oriental del Mar de Cortez, Ernesto Acuña …

Emptying the World’s Aquarium

for Harper's Magazine
Published: August, 2013


The dismal future of the global fishery

Desperately Seeking Sharks

for Discover
Published: May 2013


October used to be a good month

After the Fish Are Gone

for Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting

Documentary short created for the 2013 Environmental Film Festival in the Nation's Capital

The New School of Fish

for San Francisco Magazine

The Bay Area’s smartest diners, chefs, and purveyors now know (and care) where every cut of grass-fed beef and stalk of pesticide-free produce comes from. Yet nearly all

The ‘wind rush’: Green energy blows trouble into Mexico

for The Christian Science Monitor

The Isthmus of Tehuantapec, Mexico's narrowest point, is a powerful wind tunnel of

Dolphin Desperados

for Discover
Published: September 07, 2011


In the escalating war over dolphin rights, two pioneers in the study of cetacean consciousness have sacrificed their decades-old friendship for their beliefs.

Poison Nil: Snake and Scorpion Antivenoms Set for First Update in 60 Years

for Scientific American
Published: October 11, 2012


On a dark night in the late '80s Alejandro Alagón was working in his garden near Cuernavaca