Freelance

Aeon

• Hot stuff: Pepperheads love the hit of a habanero, the kick of a bhut jolokia. But what’s the allure of a fruit designed to repel?

THE ATLANTIC

• Maine Has a Dangerous, Small, and Very Itchy Problem

• Where the Ghost Pepper Stores Its Heat

Earth Island Journal

• Forecast: Uncertain (about climate change in Myanmar)

Five Thirty Eight

• How a deadly heat wave led to disastrous floods, 2000 miles away

In These Times

• Apple Doesn’t Want You To Be Able To Fix Your iPhone—Here’s Why

• The Women Behind Black Lives Matter

• Drowning Cajun Country

• The Grouse That Roared: Will Voluntary Conservation Efforts Work in the Intermountain West?

Mother Jones

• Hollywood Has a Climate Problem

Nieman Lab

• It’s Time to Change the Way the Media Reports on Protests

The Open notebook

• Navigating Newsrooms as a Minority

Scientific American

• Better Bus Systems Could Slow Climate Change

• Bats benefit from green roofs

Sierra Magazine

• “I Can’t Breathe” What air pollution and police violence have in common

• *This* close to a bus plunge in Myanmar

• The Art of Greenlandic Kayaking.

• Lights, Camera, Climate

SLATE

• In Support of Shame

• Rescued From the Land of Fire and Ice