Liza Gross
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San Francisco, CA, United States
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As Covid-19 cases spike, an unprecedented alliance emerges to protect California farmworkers
Advocates have warned since the beginning of the pandemic that the 2.4 million farmworkers who plant and harvest the nation’s food live and labor under… → Read More
Traumatised by the cure
Survivors of life-threatening illness can be left in profound fear and distress. Are they suffering from a form of PTSD? → Read More
Dicamba revisited: Will corn be the next herbicide debacle?
Dicamba-tolerant corn seeds aren’t available yet. But if the seeds reach the market, and tens of millions more acres are sprayed with the herbicide, some scientists expect a repeat of the soybean… → Read More
Arkansas approves expanded dicamba use, dismissing scientific and public concerns
Arkansas regulators voted on Wednesday to relax restrictions on the controversial weedkiller dicamba, despite testimony from top scientists and scores of… → Read More
Bees face yet another lethal threat in dicamba, a drift-prone pesticide
The EPA extended its approval of the weed killer for two more years, despite scientists’ warnings. → Read More
Bees face yet another lethal threat in dicamba, a drift-prone pesticide
The EPA extended its approval of the weed killer for two more years, despite scientists’ warnings. → Read More
Bees face yet another lethal threat in dicamba, a drift-prone weedkiller
While soybean farmers watched the drift-prone weedkiller dicamba ravage millions of acres of crops over the last two years, Arkansas beekeeper Richard Coy… → Read More
Water savings may cause suffering for burrowing owls (Water savings may hurt burrowing owls) —
Can the tiny raptors adapt to irrigation changes in California’s warming farm fields? → Read More
Scientists warned this weed killer would destroy crops. EPA approved it anyway
The agency based its decision on “shockingly insufficient” company studies. Now millions of dollars in soybeans and other crops have been destroyed. → Read More
Scientists warned this weedkiller would destroy crops. EPA approved it anyway.
Every August, Andrew Joyce used to hunker down in the field beside his house, picking juicy, ripe tomatoes in the blazing sun. He’d load them onto his golf cart, along with buckets of okra… → Read More
Migrant Children At Risk Of Disease Outbreaks, Doctors Say
It’s the trauma of separation that worries health experts the most. → Read More
In search of safe replacements for harmful chemicals used in cookware, carpets, clothing, cosmetics and more
After ditching two notoriously toxic compounds, manufacturers subbed in other versions of their chemical class. But are they any better? → Read More
EPA swaps top science advisers with industry allies
Most new members of the Science Advisory Board have a history of downplaying the health risks of secondhand smoke, air pollution and other hazards. → Read More
What does the environment have to do with autism?
The search for autism’s causes is a daunting task — but researchers are investigating a variety of factors that might play a role. → Read More
How data reporting can help you find new angles on oft-told tales
Reporter Liza Gross was seeking a fresh way to convey the risky environmental conditions facing California farming communities. But after running into a series of data swamps, she turned to experts for help and unexpectedly found her story in the strawberry fields of Oxnard, Calif. → Read More
Top of the Morning: Liza Gross Edition
Here we check in with prominent health journalists and experts to see what sites, newsletters and social media feeds they turn to first every morning. This week, we caught up with Liza Gross, freelance health journalist and senior editor of PLOS Biology. Here are her top morning reads. → Read More
How Self-Appointed Guardians of “Sound Science” Tip the Scales Toward Industry
Sense About Science purports to help the misinformed public sift through alarmist claims about health and the environment. But it has a disturbing history of promoting experts who turn out to have ties to regulated industries. → Read More
At California psychiatric hospitals, epidemic of patients’ assaults on staff goes untreated
At California’s state psychiatric hospitals, ongoing assaults on staff by patients can make it nearly impossible to provide a therapeutic environment. → Read More
The Number One Thing We Can Do to Protect Earth's Oceans
When New England fishers complained of working harder and harder to catch fewer and fewer fish, Spencer Baird assembled a scientific team to investigate. Though a fishery failure would once have seemed inconceivable, Baird wrote in his report, "an alarming decrease of the shore-fisheries has been thoroughly established by my own investigations, as well as by evidence of those whose testimony was… → Read More
The number one thing we can do to protect Earth’s oceans
Marine governance favors consumption and commerce over conservation. Here's what we can do about it. → Read More