In Search of the World’s Smallest Monkey, Smithsonian Magazine, January/February 2025
The earthing’s guide to building a Moon base, The Economist 1843 Magazine, December 2024
Watch it Burn - Two scammers, a web of betrayal, and Europe’s fraud of the century, The Atavist Magazine, March 2024. Listen to a conversation about this story on the Creative Nonfiction podcast.
A Life Less Earthly, The Economist Magazine Weekend Intelligence Podcast, October 2023.
Deep Sea Tourism is On the Rise, AFAR Magazine, November 2023.
Lift Off: The Promise and Peril of Space Tourism, AFAR Magazine, October 2022. Featured by Longreads.
How to Recycle a 14-Story Office Tower, The New York Times, October 2022.
Another Green World, Harper’s Magazine, February 2022. Listen to a conversation about this story on the Harper’s podcast. Featured by Longreads and anthologized in the Best American Science and Nature Writing 2023.
The Takedown of Big Oil, The New York Times Magazine, June 2021. Listen to this story on The Daily podcast.
Playing the Flute, Harper’s Magazine, February 2021. Featured by Longform.
“The Industry Is Just Seen As Trying To Kill Everybody”: Inside The Greenwashing of Big Oil, Vanity Fair, February 2021.
How Pandemic Day Traders Are Turning Wall Street Upside Down, Vanity Fair, September 2020.
Toward the Desert, Sierra Magazine, August 2020. Finalist for a 2021 Covering Climate Now Journalism Award.
“‘It’s Like a Burning Theater, and Everyone Is Trying to Get To the Door’: Oil Traders on the Day Prices Went Negative,” Vanity Fair, May 2020. Featured by Longform.
“Leap of Faith,” Men’s Journal, December 2019.
“After the War, Before the Flood, in Colombia,” The New York Review of Books, online, November 2019.
“The Culling,” The New York Times Magazine, April 2019. Third place winner for feature reporting, large circulation, from the Society of Environmental Journalists. An interview about this story can be found at The Open Notebook.
“The Women Who Nod At Death And Say ‘Let’s Go,’” Deadspin, April 2019. Featured by Longform and Longreads.
“An American Surfer Goes Rogue To Claim The Baltic Sea’s Last Wave,” Deadspin,December, 2018. Featured by Longform and Longreads. Picked by editors as one of Deadspin’s best of 2018.
“Bolivia’s Quest to Spread the Gospel of Coca,” Guernica Magazine, April, 2018. One of Longreads’ weekly top five long-form narratives (an interview about the piece can be found here). Picked by editors as one of Guernica’s best of 2018.
"The Logic of Power," n+1, January, 2018. Featured by Longform.