Selected Work
Climate change/ Fossil fuels
A giant fund for climate disasters will soon open. Who should be paid first? | Nature, Jan. 29, 2024
How India is battling deadly rain storms as climate change bites | Nature, Feb. 8, 2023
Scientists cheer India’s ambitious carbon-zero climate pledge| Nature, Nov. 5, 2021
How bad a greenhouse gas is methane? | ClimateWire, Dec. 22, 2015
Activists say solar can power India, but politics and economics of coal win out | ($) E&E News, Oct. 19, 2015
India’s Roaring Economy Is Hitched to a Galloping Addiction to Coal | ClimateWire/ NYT, Feb. 4, 2010
Big gap remains between what scientists say and Americans think about climate change | ClimateWire, Jan. 30, 2015
Investigations
Sexual harassment in science: biologists in India speak out | Nature, Jul. 29, 2024
Every Step You Take: India’s Fitness Apps Are Exploiting Users And Workers | Huffington Post, Oct. 15, 2019
A Pandemic of Discontent: The Growing Woes of India’s Food Delivery Workers | The Wire, Dec. 22, 2020
In heart of Southwest, natural gas leaks fuel a methane menace | Reveal, Jun. 14, 2017
Small fortune is lost when oil giant’s well collides with family business | ($) E&E News, Oct. 24, 2013
When 2 wells meet, spills can often follow | ($) E&E News, Oct. 24, 2013
Death on the gas field illustrates high risks of the rush to drill | ($) E&E News, Feb. 21, 2013
Feature writing
What humanity should eat to stay healthy and save the planet | Nature, Dec. 1, 2021
The world’s species are playing musical chairs: how will it end? | Nature, Aug 4, 2021
Could a Century-Old TB Shot Protect Against Other Respiratory Diseases? | Wired, Sept. 21, 2020
Deaths of African cheetahs in India shine spotlight on controversial conservation project | Nature, Jun. 7, 2023
Apes in Africa: Cultured Chimpanzees | Nature, Aug. 17, 2011
The Wheat Stalker | Nature, Jun. 29, 2011
Longest-lived mammals lasted 23m years | The Washington Post, Apr. 21, 2014
Gasping for air in India’s industrial north | Undark, Aug. 8, 2018
Audio
A Gripping Saga of Indian Indentured Labour | Scrolls & Leaves, Nov. 24, 2021
Debt drives farmers to suicide in India | Deutsche Welle, Oct. 13, 2017
Kurdish hoop dreams | Deutsche Welle, Mar 16, 2012
Hidden in plain sight | Dialogue Earth, Aug. 1, 2022
My resolve during COVID-19 (essay)| BBC World Service, Jun. 14, 2017
Silencing India’s Critics
Amazon Audible, Jan. 5, 2023