Elizabeth Royte – Writer・Author

Will This Court Case End the Mining Industry’s 150-Year Dominance of the West?

In Mother Jones

Too Hot to Live: Millions worldwide will face unbearable temperatures

In National Geographic (subscription required)

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