I cover a wide range of topics concerning natural resources: forests, minerals and water, to name a few. My aim is to pay attention to marginalized or vulnerable voices. I’m especially interested in issues important to rural America, where I grew up, and to countries in Africa, where I worked for four years covering 25 countries in West and Central Africa while based in Senegal.
My Background
I grew up in a small town in Nebraska and have worked at a half dozen news organizations across the country covering crime, education, politics, business, the U.S. economy and other topics.
Journalistic Ethics
Like all Times journalists, I’m committed to upholding the standards of integrity outlined in our Ethical Journalism Handbook. This means, among other things, that I don’t accept gifts or money from the people who might figure into my reporting. I value the independent reporting we all carry out at The Times.
Palm oil. It’s in your snacks, your soap, pretty much everything. But palm oil plantations have caused vast deforestation. Can these three tech executives help fix things?
Legislators there and in several other states want to restrict the manufacture or sale of meat made in a laboratory, even though it barely exists. The space industry disagrees.
Environmentalists and American meat producers alike are asking regulators to keep JBS, the world’s biggest meatpacker, off the New York Stock Exchange.
Frozen gas infrastructure was the main culprit in the disastrous power failures of 2021. After changes, the grid appears to be holding, with help from wind power.
The state is courting high-tech investments, but a new industrial park may lack enough water. Opponents say piping it from miles away might dry out residential wells.