Recent Work

Thousands of fishermen on San Francisco’s public piers try to feed their families, possibly at the expense of their health. Bay fish are loaded with contaminants, but fishing is free… and free is good in a recession. How can fishermen deal with this dilemma? Julia Scott reports for KALW.

Each fall, hundreds of thousands of birds descend the California coast on their journey south. One species spends its nights in chimneys, creating a spectacle that draws onlookers from around the state. Julia Scott visits a popular roosting site in the Sonoma County town of Healdsburg.

A group of amateur gardeners share a single, consuming obsession with growing giant pumpkins. They’ll stop at nothing – drain their own bank accounts, experiment with radical products and techniques – to trounce the competition and bring home the top prize: a new world record and eternal pumpkin glory.

Luis Alcala is 11, but he already knows kids his age who are in a gang. And he’s already been offered drugs. That’s reality for kids in Half Moon Bay today, where many young Latinos are sorted into rival gangs by the time they graduate from middle school.

The city of Montreal scrambles to preserve endangered artists in the midst of a real estate boom.

A review of “No Fear: A Whistleblower’s Triumph Over Corruption and Retaliation at the EPA” for Ms. Magazine.

A federal loophole has kept millions of pounds of PCBs in use across the country, and they are taking a toll on the environment.

The water supply of more than two million Californians has been exposed to harmful levels of nitrates over the past 15 years – a time marked by lax regulatory efforts to contain the colorless and odorless contaminant. First in a two-part series produced in collaboration with California Watch.

Experts say that nitrate pollution is a major threat to California future water supply, while some cities already spend millions of dollars to treat nitrates in groundwater. Second in a two-part series produced in collaboration with California Watch.

Agriculture officials have renewed their scrutiny of the world’s best-selling pest-killer as they try to solve the mysterious collapse of the nation’s hives.