A selection of features, interactive multimedia and longform interviews.
Climate Change Brought a Lobster Boom. Now It Could Cause a Bust. // The New York Times
Warming waters in the Gulf of Maine have benefited lobsters and the lobstermen who trap them. But as temperatures rise further, will the industry reach a tipping point? Jun. 21, 2018
Why Lost Ice Means Lost Hope for an Inuit Village // The New York Times
The only road to Rigolet, Labrador, is the ice. But climate change is making that ice vanish, and the mental health impact runs deep. (Text and photographs). Nov. 25, 2017
A Flying Cowboy Rides to Rescue Cattle Stranded in Harvey’s Floods // The New York Times
The devastating rain put thousands of animals at risk of drowning, but a cowpoke in a helicopter is helping drive them to higher ground. Sep. 3, 2017 (homepage, A1 & A12).
Will this Paradise Lose its Protector? // The Atlantic
Mauro Morandi is set to be evicted from the Mediterranean island he has called home for nearly 30 years. Can it remain a paradise without him?
Aug. 12, 2016
Climate Change Is Shifting the Border Between Italy and Austria // VICE Magazine
Although it is natural for glaciers to slide, the creep of global warming has melted it more rapidly than anyone could have foreseen. (Translated into Italian on Motherboard.) Jun. 26, 2016
Exiled // Fabrica, VICE, i-D, Jerusalem Report
An interactive project exploring exile from ultra-Orthodox Judaism. Reported from Israel and Germany and originally published in English/Italian by Fabrica Research Centre, with versions at VICE, i-D Magazine, the Times of Israel and Jerusalem Report.
Oct. 2015
Border Control // Fabrica, Quartz
An interactive multimedia project (photographs, audio, video) on Europe's migration crisis, reported from southern Italy. Originally published by Fabrica Research Centre, with related coverage at Quartz. Dec. 2014.
Historical Profile: Gabriel García Márquez // Dumbo Feather
Many years later, as he faced the cruel thieves of dementia, Gabriel García Márquez would have all but forgotten that distant afternoon when his grandfather, Colonel Nicolás Márquez Mejía, took him to discover ice.
A Ghetto Worth Saving // Tablet Magazine
In 1516 the Serenissima Repubblica confined its Jews to the first ghetto in the world. Created as an act of segregation, over time it became a refuge in which Jewish culture and identity thrived. DATE TK.
Jane Goodall is a Primatologist // Dumbo Feather
Jane Goodall often jokes that Tarzan married the wrong Jane. “That other Jane,” she says, was a wimp and a sissy. Jane Goodall, however, is nothing of the sort.