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nature
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
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 
buddha
Killing the Buddha
  • writer & editor
  • Dream State in Sturgis Library 
  • Born Again Rural 
  • Letting Gravity Win
  • The Happiness of Alligators
Geurnica
urbanisme
  • The Age of Loneliness 

 

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urbanisme
  • How the Author of Braiding Sweetgrass Imagines a New Economy
  • Imagining a Radical New Relationship with the Mississippi River
orion
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 
New York Times
The New York Times
  • India's Terrifying Water Crisis
  • Bihar School Deaths Highlight India’s Struggle with Pesticides
  • Falcon Cam
  • A Walk in the Park, on the Night of the Lovelorn Owl
  • Underfoot, Artist at Work
  • Blasts from the Past: The High Line (link) (pdf)
  • The Seven Circles of Cell
  • For Green Music, Rainbow Bands
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Dissent
  • What Will Our Climate-Ravaged World Look Like by 2049? 
The New Yorker
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)
  • (pdf)
  • As Winter Snows Disappear, Dogsled Racers are Trading Skis for Wheels
  • The Burning Garbage Heap That Choked Mumbai
Atlantic4website copy
Nature
  • Spain's Wind-Farm Bargain
Inside Climate News
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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urbanisme
  • To the Man Who Saw Cobras Dance
  • Anthologized in Letter to a Stranger
bidoun
Bidion
  • Inglorious Bustards
  • How’s Business? George Russell, Green Cemetery owner/operator
Vice News
Vice
  • Amazing Things Happened When New Delhi Halved the Number of Cars on the Road 
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brooklyn
  • The Forgotten Corners of Environmental Inequality
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intern
  • Signs of climate change surround Montana fishermen
world2
World
  • A Heritage Takes Wing
audubon
Audubon

 

  • The Encouraging Comeback of the Azores Bullfinch
  • On the Wing with Monarchs (pdf)
usa
USA Today
  • Energy’s Costs Finally Meet the Eyes
gadling
Gadling
  • Mucking About: Stepping into the Unknown on the Banks of the Ganges
caravan
caravan
  • Must India Ravage to Rise?

DailyOWriting
brooklyn
  • India stands on the brink of an ecological swaraj. Will Modi deliver? 
wsj
WSJ
  • A Crisis for the Faithful (pdf)
salon
Salon
  • For the Birds?
  • Dark Chocolate Goes Green
cruising
Cruising World
  • Organic Chocolate Makes Transit (pdf)

  • Charles W. Morgan: From Hunting Vessel to Conservation Tool

slate
Slate
  • The City and the Sea
smithsonian
Smithsonian.com
  • Pop-Up Relief in Kenya’s Slums
  • The World’s Fastest Animal Takes New York
grist
Grist
  • Mucking About: Stepping into the Unknown on the Banks of the Ganges
revealer
Revealer
  • Rewriting Indian Legends
  • Sweeping Air
  • Buzzards Circle Reagan’s Roost
  • Aryan Jihad and the Elephant in America’s Living Room
  • “Paradise Now” and the Power of Transformation
disocver
discover
  • Scrapes, Granarie & Bowers: The Wide World of Avian Architecture

geo
geo
  • Vultures on the Precipice (pdf)
india
Indiatoday
  • Yoga—The Bustling Business of Inner Peace

open
open
  • The Last Indian Vultures

africa
africageo
  • Finding a Phantom Sokoke Scops Owl

Dissent
Dissent
  • environmental blogger for Arguing the World
  • Charging for Conservation: How a Somewhat Decadent and Depraved Off-Road Event is Saving Kenya’s Forests
  • Shout Out for the Sea
urban
urbanisme
  • La High Line (in French)

rail
brooklyn
  • Sight Unseen
search
search
  • Towering Silence (pdf) (voted Best Religion Writing of 2008 by The Revealer)
  • Revolution in Pink (pdf)
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urbanisme
  • Arrange Me Not
rd
RD
  • Plant Porn and Physics Porn
  • Ritual Killing v. Factory Farming, Or, Are There Roosters in Heaven?
intern
intern
  • Salvate gli avvoltoi (in Italian)

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