Radio report for PRI’s The World
Phasing out nuclear in Germany
Ensia Best of Year
My long-read „What will it take to get plastics out of the oceans?“ featured in the „Ensia Best of Year“ print edition (online on Issuu)
Equality or Excellence?
Germany’s Excellence Initiative was highly debated. With its successor approved, scientists are asking whether equality and scientific freedom can be preserved in a world of competition.
Knight Science Journalism Fellowship
Together with nine Fellows from Argentina, Canada and the U.S., I spent nine months as a 2015-16 Knight Science Journalism Fellow in Cambridge on the U.S. East Coast.
Above our graduation day, with (left to right): KSJ Founding Director Victor McElheny, Ashley Smart, Courtney Humphries, Christopher Ketcham, Zack Colman, Sasha Chapman, Federico Kukso, Rod McCullom, Alicia Chang, KSJ Director Deborah Blum, KSJ Associate Editor Jane Roberts, and me. Betsy Mason took the picture.
One of the highlights: Chatting with Noam Chomsky about science, politics, climate change and journalism. Any tips for journalists, one of us asked. „Just tell the truth,“ Chomsky replied.
Sasha Chapman underwater
This winter, MIT physicist Allan Adams and underwater photographer Keith Ellenbogen teamed up to turn a coral reef into their classroom. It was an experience Sasha Chapman, one of their students, will never forget. „Sasha Chapman underwater“ weiterlesen
Underwater Emergency Exits
Daniel Stepputtis of the Thünen Institute of Baltic Sea Fisheries explains how to reduce bycatch with smarter fishing nets.
Funded by an EJN Future Oceans Story grant
„Underwater Emergency Exits“ weiterlesen
What will it take to get plastics out of the ocean?
From drones to filters to gigantic cleaning arrays, innovators are working to reduce the threat thousands of tons of trash pose to marine ecosystems. But how realistic are their plans, and how much of a difference will they be able to make? Read my article on Ensia
An Earth Journalism Network Future Oceans Story, re-published under CC-BY on Vox, GreenBiz, and BusinessInsider. Many thanks to my editors Maggie Mazzetti (Earth Journalism Network) and Mary Hoff (Ensia)!
A „Small Miracle“: German Media on the Paris Agreement
Paris has produced a „decisive signal for converting the economy from coal, oil and gas to clean energy, not only in the rich countries,“ comments Zeit Online „A „Small Miracle“: German Media on the Paris Agreement“ weiterlesen
MIT Students Demand Divestment
Students of the Fossil Free MIT initiative at Massachusetts Institute of Technology have been participating in an around-the-clock sit-in outside the university president’s office in an attempt to urge the administration to take more ambitious climate action. I visited students and supporting faculty on the 50th day of their sit-in and talked to them about their motivation „MIT Students Demand Divestment“ weiterlesen
Solar pilots: Piccard and Borschberg
My interview with André Borschberg and Bertrand Piccard on flying a solar airplane, their tour around the world, and how their technology could advance sustainable progress on the ground. Here is the transcript: „Solar pilots: Piccard and Borschberg“ weiterlesen