Mark Schapiro

San Francisco

Lecturer at UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism

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Meet the Italian 'Fruit Detective' Who Investigates Centuries-Old Paintings for Clues About Produce That Has Disappeared From the Kitchen Table | Smithsonian

Oct 21, 2024 | smithsonianmag.com | Mark Schapiro

Renaissance paintings, medieval archives, cloistered orchards—how one Italian scientist is uncovering secrets that could help combat a growing agricultural crisis
Sen. Cory Booker Says FDA Proposal Could Worsen Antibiotic Resistance

Jul 10, 2024 | civileats.bluelena.io | Lisa Elaine Held |Mark Schapiro

A pending proposal from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) could “worsen the catastrophic impacts of antimicrobial resistance” if finalized, according to Senator Cory Booker (D-New Jersey). On Tuesday, Booker sent a letter to commissioner Robert Califf expressing concerns about changes to “duration limits” in the FDA’s revised guidance on antibiotic use in animal agriculture. Continuously using drugs for long stretches is known to lead to antibiotic resistance.
In Brazil, a Powerful Law Protects Biodiversity and Blocks Global Corporate Piracy

Jul 8, 2024 | civileats.com | Mark Schapiro

This is the second of two articles about plant biodiversity and genetic resources. Read the first story here. In the center of Rio de Janeiro sprawls a lush enclave of tropical flowers, vines, and palm trees, with howler monkeys screeching from the leafy canopies. Just blocks from the traffic-clogged bustle of Rio’s boulevards, the Jardim Botanico do Rio de Janeiro is a remaining 130-acre patch of the rainforest from which the city was carved three centuries ago.
Meet the Italian ‘Fruit Detective’ Who Investigates Centuries-Old Paintings for Clues About Produce That Has Disappeared From the Kitchen Table

May 20, 2024 | wetheitalians.com | Mark Schapiro

When Isabella Dalla Ragione assesses a Renaissance painting, she doesn’t immediately notice the brushstrokes or the magnificence of the imagery. The first thing she notices is the fruit. On a spring day earlier this year, I stride with Dalla Ragione into the National Gallery of Umbria, in a 14th-century stone castle built atop the hillside city of Perugia.
Give Climate Change the Name It Deserves: Fossil-Fueled Destruction

Dec 10, 2023 | capitalandmain.com | Mark Schapiro

There’s always a lag between a rupture of the status quo and settling on a word for it. The planet is heating at a life-threatening pace. And yet the two words we use to describe this rupture — “climate” and “change” — are beginning to seem too stiff and one-dimensional for conveying the violence to life-sustaining ecosystems that threaten the world as we have known it.
The Net-Zero Challenge: Carbon Offsets Need to Stop

Nov 6, 2023 | naturalproductsonline.co.uk | Mark Schapiro

5 Mins ReadBy Mark Schapiro, Capital & MainFossil fuel companies are no longer denying the realities of climate change — which many of them reported on privately for decades. Instead, they’re attempting to position themselves as key players in the “low-carbon transition.” And key to that is the companies’ embrace of the mantra of “net-zero” emissions.
Time to Kill Off ‘Net Zero’

Oct 19, 2023 | whowhatwhy.org | Mark Schapiro

Stop pretending planting trees can justify fossil fuel emissions. Fossil fuel companies are no longer denying the realities of climate change — which many of them reported on privately for decades. Instead, they’re attempting to position themselves as key players in the “low-carbon transition.” And key to that is the companies’ embrace of the mantra of “net-zero” emissions.
Time to Kill Off ‘Net Zero’

Oct 12, 2023 | znetwork.org | Mark Schapiro

Fossil fuel companies are no longer denying the realities of climate change — which many of them reported on privately for decades. Instead, they’re attempting to position themselves as key players in the “low-carbon transition.” And key to that is the companies’ embrace of the mantra of “net-zero” emissions.
Time to Kill Off ‘Net Zero’

Oct 10, 2023 | capitalandmain.com | Mark Schapiro

Fossil fuel companies are no longer denying the realities of climate change — which many of them reported on privately for decades. Instead, they’re attempting to position themselves as key players in the “low-carbon transition.” And key to that is the companies’ embrace of the mantra of “net-zero” emissions.
Restoring the Ground Beneath our Feet

Oct 5, 2023 | kalw.org | Mark Schapiro

This is the fourth and final story in a series. Listen to the rest at kalw.org/elements. We're like a construction company, but we're constructing wetlands and streams from damaged places. Adam Davis This story examins Earth, our last stop in the series Elements. Earth is where all the elements connect to support life. It’s all we have; where everything begins and ends. Some cultures evoke Earth as poised like a big ball, on the shoulders of a god.

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