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- Can California’s floods help recharge depleted groundwater supplies? (Science magazine, 2023)
- Some of America’s biggest vegetable growers fought for water. Then the water ran out. (NPR, 2022)
- How California’s drought upended a powerful farming district. (California Report Magazine and the Food and Environment Reporting Network, 2022)
- Inside the scientific fight over biofuels. (Knowable Magazine, 2022)
- “Water batteries” could store solar and wind power for when it’s needed. (NPR, 2022)
- Meet the California farmers awash in Colorado River water, even in a drought. (NPR, 2022)
- An audio time capsule from the dawn of the world’s fight against climate change. Part 1 and Part 2. (NPR Short Wave podcast, 2022)
- Zurich turns off the gas. (NPR, 2022)
- Cyclones and salty water are a threat. These women are finding solutions. (NPR, 2021)
- New protections for California’s aquifers are reshaping the state’s Central Valley. (NPR, 2021)
- Computer Models Of Civilization Offer Routes To Ending Global Warming, (NPR, 2021)
- What “climate justice” means in Cleveland. A four-part series about neighborhoods, transit, housing, and trees. (NPR, 2021)
- Fighting Climate Change, One Building At A Time,” (NPR, 2020)
- Inside an outbreak of COVID-19 at a meatpacking plant in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. (NPR, 2020)
- It’s 2050 and This Is How We Stopped Climate Change (NPR, 2019)
- Yes In My Backyard — Planet Money Episode 856 (NPR, 2018)
- Food Scare Squad — Planet Money Episode 861 (NPR, 2018)
- Monsanto Attacks Scientists After Studies Show Problems With Weedkiller Dicamba (NPR, 2017) This is one of the more than twenty stories I did, starting in 2016, about problems with dicamba.
- Can Anyone, Even Walmart, Stem the Heat-Trapping Flood Of Nitrogen On Farms? (NPR, 2017)
- Washington Apple Growers Sink Their Teeth Into The New Cosmic Crisp (NPR, 2017)
- Guest Workers, Legal Yet Not Quite Free, Pick Florida’s Oranges (NPR, 2016)
- A Crime of Passion: When The Love Of Yogurt Burned Too Bright (NPR, 2015) Or, for another version of the same story, Up in Flames, from Gimlet Media’s StartUp podcast.
- Inside The Life Of An Apple Picker (NPR, 2015)
- Fire-Setting Ranchers Have Burning Desire To Save The Tallgrass Prairie (NPR, 2014)
- Mozambique Farm Land Is Prize In Land Grab Fever (NPR, 2014)
- Kansas Farmers Commit To Taking Less Water From The Ground (NPR, 2013)
- The blessing and curse of nitrogen fertilizer. (National Geographic, 2012)
- In Heart of Amazon, A Natural Lab to Study Diseases, (NPR, 2011) A longer version of this story aired on the podcast Soundprint, but is no longer available online.
- Maps to make a better city, a century ago and today (NPR, 2007)