New York Times Magazine: The Animals Are Talking. What Does It Mean?
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/20/magazine/animal-communication.html
New Yorker Magazine: “The Case for Free-Range Lab Mice”
A growing body of research suggests that the unnatural lives of laboratory animals can undermine science. https://www.newyorker.com/culture/annals-of-inquiry/the-case-for-free-range-lab-mice
The Nation: “First Came the Hurricane. Then Came the Campaign of Terror”
Climate change made Hurricane Dorian a monster that pummeled the Bahamas’s Haitian minority. Human cruelty made its aftermath brutal. Both could have been prevented. https://www.thenation.com/article/environment/hurricane-bahamas-climate/
New York Times magazine: “Animals That Infect Humans Are Scary. It’s Worse When We Infect Them Back.”
Mink farms threaten to become a source of new coronavirus variants–and an object lesson in how ‘spillback’ can make deadly diseases even deadlier. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/19/magazine/spillback-animal-disease.html
New York Times Magazine: “Animal Planet” How Far Do Wildlife Roam?
An ambitious new system will track scores of species from space–shedding light, scientists hope, on the lingering mysteries of animal movement. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/01/12/magazine/animal-tracking-icarus.html?action=click&module=Top%20Stories&pgtype=Homepage
Foreign Affairs: “Climate Change Will Drive People Across Borders”
But the real crisis would be making them stay. Reporting for this story supported by the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting. https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/central-america-caribbean/2020-07-29/climate-change-will-drive-people-across-borders?utm_campaign=tw_daily_soc&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter_posts
The Nation: “How Trump Is Going to Get Away with a Pandemic”
There are lots of ways for the Trump administration to cook the data to hide the extent of the coronavirus outbreak–in fact, it is already doing so. https://www.thenation.com/article/society/trump-hiding-covid/
The Nation: Think Exotic Animals Are to Blame for the Coronavirus? Think Again.”
Scientists have fingered bats and pangolins as potential sources of the virus, but the real blame lies elsewhere—with human assaults on the environment. https://www.thenation.com/article/environment/coronavirus-habitat-loss/
The Nation: “It’s Time to Tell a New Story About the Coronavirus”
The way we talk about contagion matters. It shapes how societies respond–and whether many of us will survive. https://www.thenation.com/article/society/pandemic-definition-covid/
COVID-19 Pandemic
READ: My story on Covid-19 in animals in the New York Times magazine WATCH: A clip of me talking pandemics on HBO’s Last Week Tonight with John Oliver WATCH: My interview with Amy Goodman on Democracy Now!, “It’s time to tell a new story about coronavirus–our lives depend on it.” LISTEN: My interview on the Nicole Sandler Show, “Life and Covid Times with Sonia Shah“ LISTEN: My interview on “Letters and Politics” on KPFA, “The history of development and contagious disease“ WATCH: My interview on Rising Up with Sonali, “Toward a new understanding of disease and infections” on KPFK READ: My cover story in The Nation, “It’s time to tell a new story about coronavirus–our lives depend on it.” WATCH: My interview with Vox, featured in “How humans are making pandemics more likely“ WATCH: My conversation about pandemics, past and present, on CNN with Fareed Zakaria WATCH: My Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting Webinar on Migrations and Contagions WATCH: My address to the German Green Party Council on environmental disruption and pandemics (starts at 3:14) READ: My article, “Mass Consumption Is What Ails Us,” Foreign Affairs LISTEN: My interview with Marco Werman on PRI’s The World, “What does it mean when people say we’re due for a pandemic?” WATCH: My TED Connects talk on how to make pandemics like COVID-19 optional, not inevitable, April 1, 2020 WATCH: My interview with Senator Bernie Sanders on his coronavirus roundtable livestream, March 30, 2020 WATCH: My conversation with international activists on Transnational Institute’s webinar, “Building an Internationalist Response to COVID19“ READ: My Q&A with Sigal Samuel, “Our environmental practices make pandemics like the coronavirus more likely,” Vox, March 31, 2020 READ: My article, “How Trump Is Going to Get Away with a Pandemic,” The Nation, March 31, 2020 LISTEN: My interview for “When We Talk About Animals” podcast, on how animal microbes become human pandemics WATCH: My interview with Marc Steiner, “Covid-19, Ebola, and SARS were all unleashed by humans,” Real News Network WATCH: My interview, “Pandemics are entirely preventable,” on NBC LX LISTEN: My interview, “When viruses become pandemics,” on the Le Monde Diplomatique podcast READ: My contribution to “Coronavirus Will Change the World Permanently. Here’s How,” POLITICO magazine WATCH: My interview, “How the climate crisis is making the spread of infectious diseases like coronavirus more common,” Democracy Now! READ: My story, “Think exotic animals are to blame for the coronavirus? Think again.” From The Nation magazine. Reprinted by Le Monde Diplomatique in French, Spanish, and Portuguese. READ: My article, “The pandemic of xenophobia and scapegoating,” in TIME magazine READ: My Q&A on the origins of pandemics with the Times of India LISTEN: my interview on the problem of scapegoating during epidemics with WNYC’s “The Takeaway“ LISTEN: my interview on the What if? podcast (starts at 22:06) READ: my comments on where novel pathogens come from, on Global Health Now’s “Coronavirus Expert Reality Check“ READ: The Coronavirus in Context: a Q&A with Sonia Shah, author of PANDEMIC, from Direct Relief