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Brooke Jarvis

Science Health

The Global Dream Lab

The pandemic offered an unprecedented opportunity for the researchers who study why and how we dream.

Brooke Jarvis New York Times Magazine Nov 2021 Permalink

Best Article Science Health

The Forgotten Sense

Could the pandemic teach us why our sense of smell matters?

Brooke Jarvis New York Times Magazine Jan 2021 35min Permalink

Politics Science

The Teenagers at the End of the World

Young climate activists like Jamie Margolin are building a movement while growing up — planning mass protests from childhood bedrooms and during school.

Brooke Jarvis New York Times Magazine Jul 2020 20min Permalink

Science

Why Old-Growth Trees Are Crucial to Fighting Climate Change

Nature is already socking away a lot of carbon for us. It could soak up a lot more—if we help.

Brooke Jarvis Wired Apr 2020 25min Permalink

History Travel

Who Speaks For Crazy Horse?

Decades on, a massive half-built monument in the Black Hills remains controversial.

Brooke Jarvis New Yorker Sep 2019 Permalink

Business Science

Climate Change Could Destroy His Home in Peru. So He Sued an Energy Company in Germany.

Local communities are taking the world’s largest polluters to court. And they’re using the legal strategy that got tobacco companies to pay up.

Brooke Jarvis The New York Times Magazine Apr 2019 20min Permalink

Politics

The Deported Americans

More than 600,000 U.S.-born children of undocumented parents live in Mexico. What happens when you return to a country you’ve never known?

Brooke Jarvis California Sunday Jan 2019 15min Permalink

Science

The Insect Apocalypse Is Here

What does it mean for the rest of life on Earth?

Brooke Jarvis New York Times Magazine Nov 2018 30min Permalink

Science

The Obsessive Search for the Tasmanian Tiger

Could a global icon of extinction still be alive?

Brooke Jarvis New Yorker Jun 2018 25min Permalink

Politics

‘Will They Take Me, Too?’

What happens to American children when their parents are deported?

Brooke Jarvis New York Times Magazine Dec 2017 20min Permalink

Crime Tech

How One Woman's Digital Life Was Weaponized Against Her

After the relationship ended, the harassment began.

Brooke Jarvis Wired Nov 2017 30min Permalink

Sex Health

Can We "Cure" the Men Who Pay for Sex?

A program in Washington state aims to teach johns about healthy relationships - and the patriarchy.

Brooke Jarvis GQ Feb 2017 15min Permalink

History Politics

Who Decides Who Counts As Native American?

A Washington tribe expelled 306 of its members. They’re not going quietly.

Brooke Jarvis New York Times Magazine Jan 2017 Permalink

Health

Unclaimed

On a mysterious migrant in a San Diego hospital bed, and the thousands of families who hope that he’s theirs.

Brooke Jarvis California Sunday Dec 2016 Permalink

Science

The Deepest Dig

We don’t really understand the ocean bottom. We’re mining it anyway.

Brooke Jarvis California Sunday Nov 2014 15min Permalink

Health

When I Die

A doctor who helped pioneer Oregon’s Death With Dignity law receives his own terminal diagnosis.

Brooke Jarvis Harper's Dec 2015 10min Permalink

The Messengers

Talking about hope and the environment with a photographer who takes pictures of birds killed by plastic.

Brooke Jarvis Pacific Standard Sep 2015 10min Permalink

Crime

17 Shots in Pasco

The life of Antonio Zambrano-Montes, shot dead by the police in Washington state.

Brooke Jarvis Seattle Met May 2015 20min Permalink

World

Homeward

As a child, Hugo Lucitante was brought to America from a tiny jungle village in Ecuador. His heart’s still back home.

Brooke Jarvis California Sunday Magazine Mar 2015 Permalink

Collapse

Witnessing one of deadliest landslides in American history.

Brooke Jarvis Seattle Met Nov 2014 25min Permalink