Author: Melani King

Knowing when grapes are ripe depends on science, experience and a little luck.

Wine Spectator, April 30, 2012

An interview with Frans de Waal, C.H. Candler Professor of Psychology and director of the Living Links Center for the Advanced Study of Ape and Human Evolution at the Yerkes National Primate Research Center at Emory University.

PLOS Blogs, March 27, 2012

Although flame retardants may pose health risks, the chemical industry has spent millions blocking attempts to ban them in California. A five-month investigation for Environmental Health News.

East Bay Express, Nov. 16, 2011

Frederick Wiseman, at work on a new film about higher ed set in Berkeley, embraces complexity to capture the way we live.

California magazine, Fall 2011; Appeared in the The Good Fight (Fall 2011) issue, winner of the CASE gold medal award.

One of the American West’s best-known conservation successes, condors still face a tough road ahead

High Country News, June 13, 2011

Few winemakers today use a heavy hand with sulfites, but consumers still worry about health risks.

Wines & Vines, January 2011

Genetic engineering may offer disease-plagued grapevines a lifeline, but the hurdles are high.

Wine Spectator, Dec. 15, 2010

Mountain lions are straying into more urban areas: Can the Bay Area’s big cats survive encroaching civilization?

San Francisco Chronicle, November 28, 2010

With the number of wild tigers at an all-time low, a new study warns that unless conservation managers redouble funds and efforts to protect tigers in the few places they can still thrive, we may lose the world’s largest cat.

National Geographic’s News Watch, September 2010

Wildlife biologist Pierre-Yves Quenette heads the French government’s efforts to restore the brown bear to the Pyrenees.

National Geographic’s News Watch, May 2010