From 1991-2003 she worked for the daily newspaper NRC Handelsblad, covering national news and the Balkan Wars (March 1994 to late 1995).
She left NRC Handelsblad in 2003, but continued to work for NOS radio and television until January 2013.
[3] In December 2000, she investigated the health impacts of aerial fumigations of coca cultivation in Colombia with the herbicide Roundup, which contains the active ingredient glyphosate.
She found that "because the chemical is sprayed in Colombia from planes on inhabited areas, there have been consistent health complaints [in humans].
In some areas, 80 percent of the children of the indigenous community fell sick with skin rashes, fever, diarrhoea and eye infections.