Articles in Non-science Magazines, Newspapers, and the Web

• Safina, C., 2024. Gov. Hochul Must Sign Horseshoe Crab Protections Newsday
• Safina, C., Greenberg P., 2024. Too Much of Our Seafood Has a Dark Secret The New York Times
• Safina, C., 2024. Like Many a Hero, Flaco the Owl Made His Choice The New York Times
• Safina, C., Joel R. 2023. This Alaska Mine Would Destroy the World’s Largest Salmon Fishery. The New York Times
• Safina, C. 2023. What Raising an Orphaned Owl Revealed About Humanity. Next Big Idea Club.
• Safina, C. 2023. Celebrating America’s Greatest Wildlife Conservation Law. Sierra.
• Safina, C. 2023. A Home For Alflie. Orion.
• Safina, C. 2023. Mutual Healing: Lessons Learned from an Orphaned Owl. YaleE360.
• Safina, C. 2023. What an Owl Taught Me About Life. TIME.
• Safina, C. 2023. What raising an orphaned owl taught me about our broken bond with nature. The Guardian.
• Safina, C. 2023. The Young Woman and the Sea: A Love Story. The New York Times.
• Safina, C., and Greenberg, P. 2023. The Case For Making Earth Day a Religious Holiday. Time Magazine.
• Safina, C. 2022. The Right (Whale) Stuff. Medium.
• Safina, C. 2022. Connected by Culture. Defenders Magazine.
• Safina, C. 2021. Protecting Earth: If 'Nature Needs Half,' What Do People Need? YaleE360.
• Safina, C. 2021. The days of 'let's see what happens' are over. CNN.
• Safina, C., and Greenberg, P. 2021. We Don’t Need More Life-Crushing Steel and Concrete. The New York Times.
• Safina, C. 2021. Dette er den egentlige grunnen til å redde arter: Vi trenger ikke dem. Men de trenger oss. (Norwegian translation of Safina's 2019 Yale Environment 360 article, The real case for saving species: We don't need them, but they need us.) Harvest.
• Safina, C. 2021. Avoiding a 'ghastly' future: Hard truths on the state of the planet.Yale Environment 360.
• Safina, C. 2021. Writers & artists on the influence of Barry Lopez.Orion Magazine.
• Safina, C. 2020. Song of the Humpback Whales.The Center for Humans and Nature: Minding Nature Journal: Fall 2020, Volume 13, Number 3.
• Safina, C. 2020. This rescue moose was also 2020.The New York Times.
• Safina, C. 2020. Melville's whale was a warning we failed to heed. The New York Times.
• Safina, C. 2020. Becoming Wild during a pandemic. Orion Magazine.
• Safina, C. 2020. Mother Culture. Orion Magazine.
• Safina, C. 2020. The secret call of the wild: How animals teach each other to survive. The Guardian.
• Safina, C. 2020. How wildlife markets and factory farms guarantee frequent new deadly diseases. Tenderly/Medium.com.
• Safina, C. 2020. Psychic numbing: Keeping hope alive in a world of extinctions. YaleE360.
• Safina, C. 2019. Biodiversity: Hopes and fears for the next 10 years. The Guardian.
• Safina, C. 2019. The real case for saving species: We don't need them, but they need us. YaleE360.
• Safina, C. 2019. Those who come after us will either curse us–or thank us. CNN.
• Safina, C. 2019. The new threat to endangered species? The Trump Administration. The New York Times.
• Safina, C. 2019. When you teach a boy to fish. Human Parts/Medium.
• Safina, C. 2019. This brutal creature is wiping out everything but itself. CNN.
• Safina, C., and Greenberg, P., et al. 2019. 'The wrong mine for the wrong place.' The New York Times.
• Safina, C., and Reynolds, J. (2019). Trump's poison pill for Alaska salmon. Medium.com.
• Safina, C. 2019. A dead whale containing 90 pounds of plastic is a message in a bottle. CNN.
• Safina, C., and Greenberg, P. 2018. An improvable feast. The New York Times.
• Safina, C. 2018. In Defense of Biodiversity: Why Protecting Species from Extinction Matters. Yale e360.
• Safina, C. 2018. Are We Wrong to Assume Fish Can't Feel Pain? The Guardian.
• Safina, C. 2018. Trump's Offshore Drilling Plan is Simply a Terrible Idea. The Hill.
• Safina, C., and Cirino, E. 2018. While Cape Cod Bleeds, San Francisco Leads. The Cape Cod Times.
• Safina, C. 2018. The Power Forest. Medium.
• Safina, C. 2017. The Blind Men and the Elephants. WBUR. 
• Safina, C. 2017. Pebble Mine is a Poison Pill for Alaska's Wild Salmon. Los Angeles Times. 
• Safina, C. 2017. Elephants Mourn. Dogs Love. Why Do We Deny the Feelings of Other Species? The Guardian. 
• Safina, C. 2017. More, Not Less. The New York Times Book Review: Letter to the Editor. 
• Safina, C. 2017. How We Got–Y'know–Here. Purist. 
• Safina, C. 2017. What Does It Mean That Another Elephant Has Fallen? Medium. 
• Safina, C. 2017. Tilikum: A Killer Whale's Tragic Life. Medium. 
• Safina, C. 1995. The Imperiled Fish. Scientific American.

Book Chapters and Forewords

• Safina, C. 2024. Chapter 14: Culture in Sentient Beings: Purpose, Evolution, Conservation. Regenerative Farming and Sustainable Diets Human, Animal and Planetary Health. By D'Silva J. and McKenna C. Routledge.

• Safina, C. 2022. Foreward. Sperm Whales: The Gentle Goliaths of the Ocean. By Rosenwaks, G. Rizzoli.

• Safina, C. 2021. Foreward. Our Symphony with Animals: On Health, Empathy, and Our Shared Destinies. By Akhtar, A. Pegasus Books.

• Safina, C. 2020. Foreward. Takaya: Lone Wolf. By Alexander, C. Rocky Mountain Books.

• Safina, C. 2017. Foreword. Radiographic: X-Ray Photo Inventions. By Miller, S. Glitterati Press.

• Safina, C. 2015. Foreward. Ocean Country: One Woman's Voyage from Peril to Hope in her Quest To Save the Seas. By Cunningham, L. North Atlantic Books.

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Scientific and Professional Journal Articles, Scientific Magazines

• Safina, C., 2024. Fish farming and beyond: Moral reckoning required. Science Advances.
• Safina, C., et al. 2021. An ecological and social rationale for nature needs half. Frontiers in Conservation Science.
• Safina, C., et al. 2020. Toward an equitable future for all species. (Response to Schleicher et al. "One billion people to be directlu affected by protecting half." Nature Sustainability 21: 4-11. 
• Safina, C. 2018. Where are zoos going – or are they gone? Journal of Applied Animal Welfare Science 21: 4-11. 
• Earle, S., Wright, D.J., Joye, S., Laffoley, D., Baxter, J., Safina, C., and Elkus, P. 2018. Ocean deoxygenation: Time for action. Science.
• Safina, C. 1994. Where have all the fishes gone?" Issues in Science and Technology