Her work has appeared in a variety of publications including National Geographic News, Scientific American, Environmental Health Perspectives, the Intercept, the Guardian, Mother Jones, Ensia, Yale e360, Civil Eats, the Nation, Salon, In These Times and the Washington Post, and has been republished by Time, PRI’s The World, Moyers & Co. and Reuters, among others. She’s also written several books, among them High Tech Trash, Chasing Molecules and Watershed, and her reporting has taken her from the Arctic to south of the Equator. A native of New York City, she has a B.A. cum laude from Yale University and is based in Portland, Oregon.