In 2013, he wrote a popular blog for Slate called “Oh Florida!”. His work has won the Waldo Proffitt Award for Distinguished Environmental Journalism in Florida four times, and twice he has won the top investigative reporting award from the Society of Environmental Journalists, a national organization. Stories he has written for Sarasota magazine have won three first-place Charlie Awards from the Florida Magazine Association. He is the author of the New York Times bestseller Oh, Florida!: How America's Weirdest State Influences the Rest of the Country (St. Martin's, 2016; rights with publisher). He is currently writing Cat Fight!: The Wild, Weird Tale of How the Endangered Florida Panther Was Saved from Extinction (Hanover Square Press, 2019; rights with publisher).