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Mark Schapiro, Capital & Main

Mark Schapiro is an award-winning investigative journalist specializing in the environment. His most recent book, Seeds of Resistance: The Fight to Save Our Food Supply, an investigation into the struggle to control the seeds capable of resilience to climate change, will be published in paperback in January. He is a Lecturer at the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism. Previous books include "Exposed: The Toxic Chemistry of Everyday Products" and "What’s at Stake for American Power," an investigation into the health and economic consequences of toxic chemicals, and "The End of Stationarity: Searching for the New Normal in the Age of Carbon Shock," which reveals the trap doors of the economic system that hides the costs and consequences of climate change.

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Thick, gray storm clouds hang over a dry but green desert landscape, as sheets of rain fall with dark mountains looming in the distance
California's Drought Is Not Over
By mid-March, two-thirds of California was officially out of drought, thanks to a series of successive atmospheric rivers that have dumped lots of rain on the state. But drought and deluge are inextricably entwined — and since the soil is not absorbing the excess water, California is still running out of water.
Diesel-carrying trucks line up behind a Chevron-branded gate as plumes of smoke or steam erupt out of smoke stacks from the oil refinery in the background, with large oil drums visible.
The Dishonest Accounting of Net-Zero Emissions
Companies pledge to cut emissions caused by their production, while opposing measures to reduce emissions from the use of their products.
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