I’m an award-winning investigative and environmental journalist and educator focused on climate change and biodiversity, and the people and forces shaping our rapidly changing world.
My work combines deep, long-term reporting with narrative storytelling. I’m particularly interested in stories that surprise readers (and, at times, myself) often by uncovering the details, connections and perspectives that others have missed.
I’ve reported from more than 25 countries and lived and worked across Europe, China, Southeast Asia and the United States. From the Arctic to Ukraine, I’ve covered political upheaval, environmental crime, biodiversity loss, war and the climate crisis, always looking for the human stories and unexpected threads that help make sense of larger events.
For two years, I reported from the frontlines of climate change for the Miami Herald, covering hurricanes and extreme heat while also investigating the looming real-estate crisis as rising seas and worsening flooding begin to collide with one of the country’s most valuable and vulnerable property markets. That reporting won first prize in the investigative category at the Sunshine Awards. I also taught Florida International University’s first climate reporting class and was named Best Herald Reporter by the Miami New Times in my first full year at the Herald.
My work combines deep, long-term reporting with narrative storytelling. I’m particularly interested in stories that surprise readers (and, at times, myself) often by uncovering the details, connections and perspectives that others have missed.
I’ve reported from more than 25 countries and lived and worked across Europe, China, Southeast Asia and the United States. From the Arctic to Ukraine, I’ve covered political upheaval, environmental crime, biodiversity loss, war and the climate crisis, always looking for the human stories and unexpected threads that help make sense of larger events.
For two years, I reported from the frontlines of climate change for the Miami Herald, covering hurricanes and extreme heat while also investigating the looming real-estate crisis as rising seas and worsening flooding begin to collide with one of the country’s most valuable and vulnerable property markets. That reporting won first prize in the investigative category at the Sunshine Awards. I also taught Florida International University’s first climate reporting class and was named Best Herald Reporter by the Miami New Times in my first full year at the Herald.
Before focusing on long-form and investigative reporting, I worked for daily publications, the international news agency AFP and for news broadcasters like CNN - experience that taught me to report under pressure, whether from the scene of a terrorist attack or a natural disaster.
I was a 2024 Nieman Fellow at Harvard University, where I spent a year thinking deeply about the future of journalism and on making climate stories more impactful, and I now teach journalism at Harvard.
Alongside my reporting, I’m working on my first book. That ties to my passion to write profiles that follow remarkable people closely enough to understand the larger world they inhabit. I’m originally from Austria, and while most of my time is now spent somewhere on either side of the Atlantic, ultimately, home is where the mountains are.
I was a 2024 Nieman Fellow at Harvard University, where I spent a year thinking deeply about the future of journalism and on making climate stories more impactful, and I now teach journalism at Harvard.
Alongside my reporting, I’m working on my first book. That ties to my passion to write profiles that follow remarkable people closely enough to understand the larger world they inhabit. I’m originally from Austria, and while most of my time is now spent somewhere on either side of the Atlantic, ultimately, home is where the mountains are.