Science writer, essayist & communications consultant.
Writing about the living world: people, places & creatures; rupture, connection & change.
Based in Aotearoa New Zealand.
Selected stories
Māori knowledge shows climate change domino effects on forest food chains
Mongabay, April 14 2026
“Some of the trees in the forest no longer know if it is winter or summer.”
The Coming Pollen Storms
Noēma Magazine, August 21 2024
What does the climate crisis feel like in your body? It’s easier to imagine it in the form of large-scale, dramatic events: settlements swept away in floods, towns torched in wildfires. But for many of us it will make landfall in a multitude of more intimate ways.
Managed retreat? Please, not yet
Hakai Magazine, July 26 2023
Salt water is already seeping through gardens, under homes, and among the headstones on Serua Island, Fiji. The national government has offered its support to help the island’s 100 or so inhabitants move. Yet almost all are choosing to stay put.
Subterranean Stronghold
Biographic, April 17 2024
The first time he stared down the humid mouth of Nakanacagi Cave, on the Fijian island of Vanua Levu, Sanaila Tawake’s hands shook. He’d heard many stories about this place, its entrance half-hidden between mossy limestone boulders in a tract of old-growth dry forest on the island’s mountainous spine. That day, at twelve years old, he’d finally convinced an uncle to take him inside.