“The War on Weeds,” Noema Magazine, May 2024

“The Work of the Endangered Species Act Is Just Beginning,” TIME, 28 December 2023

“Disturbance: How Atomic Doomsday Experiments Shook Ecologists’ Faith in Self-Healing Nature,” Aeon, 14 February 2023

“The Women Who Saved Wildflowers,” Sierra Magazine, 2 June 2 2022

"Earth Day is a Chance to Win the Messaging War Against Polluters,"The Washington Post, 23 April 2022

“Is Humanity Doomed? That Depends On Us,” Los Angeles Times, 28 March 2022

"An Ambitious Plan Would Formally Protect 30 Percent of Earth by 2030. But There’s a Problem," Slate, 11 May 2021

"Avoiding Carbon Colonialism," The Hill, 26 April 2021

"The Coronavirus and Climate Action," Scientific American, 10 April 2020

"How Does Architecture Affect the Evolution of Other Species?" RCC Perspectives: Transformations in Environment and Society, 2016 no. 5

"G. Evelyn Hutchinson’s Exultation in Natural History," American Scientist, July-August 2016

"The x-ray images that showed midcentury scientists how radiation affects an ecosystem," Slate, 28 December 2015

"Evolution of the indoor biome," Your Wild Life, 16 March 2015

"Space cadets and rat utopias," The Appendix – Futures of the Past Issue, 28 August 2014

"Is a footprint the right metaphor for ecological impact?" Scientific American, 2 April 2014

"The secret (and ancient) lives of houseplants," Your Wild Life, 21 April 2013

"Butterflies and bombs," Scientific American, 26 March 2013

"Postage stamps overlook Earth's tiny creatures," Scientific American, 20 February 2013

"#OverlyHonestMethods, or #SoGladWe'reHavingThisConversation," Scientific American, 9 January 2013

"The death of natural selection," Scientific American, 5 November 2012

"Scientists as writers," Scientific American, 15 August 2012

"The co-evolution of insects, plants, and a career," Scientific American, 16 April 2012

"Visiting the corpse plant," Scientific American, 21 March 2012