Selected writing
How Big Tech hides its outsourced African workforce
Rest of World 2025
Tracing the outsourcing networks that connect African digital workers to the world’s largest technology companies.
With Stephanie Wangari
A giant fund for climate disasters will soon open. Who should be paid first?
Nature 2024
The difficult choices behind a fund intended to compensate countries for climate damage.
Activists say solar can power India, but politics and economics of coal win out
E&E News 2015
In a Bihar village, an ambitious solar experiment meets the economics and politics of reliable electricity.
Sexual harassment in science: biologists in India speak out
Nature 2024
Women wildlife researchers describe harassment in the field, and the institutional failures that leave them unprotected.
Which oil and gas companies are leaking the most methane?
E&E News 2015
An analysis of federal and corporate data tests oil and gas companies’ claims about their environmental performance.
India’s tigers seem to be a massive success story — many scientists aren’t sure
Nature 2019
Scientists question the numbers behind India’s celebrated tiger recovery. Winner of the 2020 ABSW specialist feature award.
Gasping for Air in India’s Industrial North
Undark 2020
In Patna, the people living with some of the world’s most polluted air. Part of the series that received the 2019 George Polk Award for environmental reporting.