Elizabeth Royte – Writer・Author

These widely used insecticides may be a threat to mammals too

In National Geographic

Gimme Shelter

In Urban Omnibus

Covid-19 Reporting

in National Geographic, Vanity Fair and Food and Environment Reporting Network.

The Push for Tidal Power Faces Its Biggest Challenge Yet

in Smithsonian.

We Know Plastic Is Harming Marine Life: What about us?

in National Geographic

Idling Vigilante

An Upper West Side crank wages a lucrative war against air pollution.

In New York Magazine.

Could massive storm surge barriers end the Hudson River’s revival?

Environmentalists tend to think… yes.

The High Cost of Food Waste

A global perspective and some cool solutions, in National Geographic.

Illustration by Jen Renninger

Drinking Problems: A Kansas town confronts a tap-water crisis

The story of polluters who aren’t asked to pay, in Harper’s.

Industrial Corn Farms Pollute Drinking Water

Straightforward solutions exist. National Geographic

Chain Reaction

The same pesticides linked with bee declines might also threaten birds, in Audubon.

Photo by Bob Campbell

The Gorillas Dian Fossey Saved

About the primatologist’s legacy and what more gorillas in a small space mean for Rwanda. In National Geographic.