Writing
Nature
- Plastics tsunami: Can a landmark treaty stop waste from choking the oceans?
- Humans versus Earth: The Quest to Define the Anthropocene
- Anthropocene Now: Influential Panel Votes to Recognize Earth's New Epoch
- Can Delhi Save Itself from its Toxic Air?
- New Delhi Car Ban Yields Trove of Pollution Data
- Deadly Dinners
- California Condors Face Lead Menace
- An Ill Wind: The Trouble with Turbines
VQR
- A Measure of Gratitude (Staige D. Blackford Prize for Nonfiction)
- Strange Gardens: An Effervescent Vision of Plastics on the Ocean
- India’s Golden Chance (featured on Longreads about love)
- India’s Vanishing Vultures (Staige D. Blackford Prize for Nonfiction)
- #VQRTrueStory: Elemental India
Orion
- Contributing editor
- What is Environmental (In)Justice? (graphic novel excerpt)
- Out of the Ashes
- Faith Without Certainty (convo with Martha Park)
- An Amazing 200 Million Year-Old Race
- Meera Subramanian Answers the Orion Questionnaire
- Migratory Tule (pdf)
- A PathThrough the Woods (pdf)
- A Pointed Angle
- Map of Echoes
- The Cartography We Can't See
- Review: Bewilderment by Richard Powers
- The Nature of Plastics (selected for Best American Science and Nature Writing 2022)
- Together Apart (a conversation between Elizabeth Rush & Meera on coronavirus, motherhood & chocolate)
- United in Change
- Five Questions for the Author: Elizabeth Rush, Rising
- Earthquake in Nepal
- The City and the Sea (and audio slideshow)
- The Place Where You Live
- Jugaad Urbanism
- Last Man in Tower
The New York Times
Nature
- Consider the Vulture (True Story Award finalist) (pdf)
- India’s Quest to Build the World’s Largest Solar Farms (reprinted in Wired in Japanese)(Covering Climate Now Journalism Award)
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- As Winter Snows Disappear, Dogsled Racers are Trading Skis for Wheels
- The Burning Garbage Heap That Choked Mumbai
peaches
- The Finding Middle Ground series (finalist for the Scripps Howard Award)
- "It’s Going to End with Me': The Fate of Gulf Fisheries in a Warming World (The Weather Channel)
- Generation Climate: Can Young Evangelicals Change the Climate Debate? (Killing the Buddha)
- They Know Seas Are Rising, but They're Not Abandoning Their Beloved Cape Cod (Longreads Best of 2018: Science and Technology)
- The Flash Drought Brought Misery, but Did It Change Minds on Climate Change? (High Country News)
- Fly-fishing on Montana's Big Hole River, Signs of Climate Change are Everywhere (High Country News) (Montana Public Radio)
- Wind Power Means Jobs in Texas, and Partisan Politics Isn't Going to Stop It
- As Snow Disappears, A Family of Dogsled Racers in Wisconsin Can't Agree Why
- Seeing God's Hand in the Deadly Floods, Yet Wondering about Climate Change
- In Georgia's Peach Orchards, Warm Winters Raise Specter of Climate Change
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- Towering Silence (pdf) (voted Best Religion Writing of 2008 by The Revealer)
- Revolution in Pink (pdf)
