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Mark Schapiro

San Francisco
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Most recent book: SEEDS OF RESISTANCE: The Fight to Save Our Food Supply; Lecturer, UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism.
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Can restoration save the Delta smelt?

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By Mark Schapiro
| High Country News Verified
This story was produced in collaboration with Bay Nature, a nonprofit news organization that connects the people of the San Francisco Bay Area more deeply with the natural world. Visit Bay Nature to read “Price-Tagging Nature,” Mark Schapiro’s in-depth look at the compensatory mitigation industry.
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Back to the USSR: Shades of Stalin in the USA

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By Mark Schapiro
| Substack
In October 1939, one of the world’s most infamous scientific debates took place in a Moscow auditorium packed with scientists and Communist Party officials. After several back-to-back famines, the search was on for crops that could withstand the Soviet Union’s harsh climates. The debate between two scientists, each with a very different approach to plant adaptation, was the main event at the “Genetics and Selection” conference sponsored by the Soviet Academy of Sciences.
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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

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By Mark Schapiro
| Smithsonian Magazine Verified
Renaissance paintings, medieval archives, cloistered orchards—how one Italian scientist is uncovering secrets that could help combat a growing agricultural crisis 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.
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