Conservation groups are working with Central Valley farmers to restore critical habitat for wetland birds struggling to subsist on a fraction of their historic wintering grounds. But finding the right spots is challenging.
Inside Climate News, January 12, 2025
The consultants, who worked for Dow, the pesticide’s manufacturer, help corporate interests defend their products against environmental and health regulations.
Inside Climate News, August 27, 2024
Scores of California farmworkers are dying in the heat in regions with chronically bad air, even in a state with one of the toughest heat standards in the nation.
Inside Climate News, with Peter Aldhous, Dec. 31, 2023
Expanded development on Washington’s Olympic Peninsula, viewed as a climate refuge, is encroaching on prime wildlife habitat. As big cats find it harder to avoid people, many are winding up dead.
Inside Climate News, Photography by Michael Kodas, September 13, 2023Featured on KCBS evening news and Living on Earth ; Outstanding Feature Story, SEJ
Cascading climate disasters and unjust labor and immigration policies leave undocumented farm laborers without a safety net.
Inside Climate News, stories ran Feb. through July 23, 2023
Investigative series exposes how California regulators relied on flimsy evidence—produced by oil industry consultants—to assure consumers it’s safe to grow crops with the oil industry’s wastewater.
Inside Climate News, stories ran Feb. through Sept. 2022
Awards: Best in Business Awards, Health/Science 2022; Izzy Award, 2022; AAAS Kavli Science Journalism Award for Excellence in Reporting, Silver Award, 2022
Lax oversight has allowed oil and gas developers to dump billions of barrels of toxic wastewater into the ground, endangering the San Joaquin Valley’s dwindling groundwater supplies.
Inside Climate News, Oct. 24, 2021
As climate change amplifies the health risks of extreme heat and pollution from wildfires, researchers scramble to protect farmworkers.
Inside Climate News, Sept. 21, 2021
California’s sustainable farms offer lessons in climate resilience, but the agricultural system still favors industrial operations.
Inside Climate News, Sept. 7, 2021
Advocates say the case of an undocumented Oregon worker during the record-breaking Pacific Northwest heatwave exposes the deadly toll of failed U.S. immigration law.
Inside Climate News, July 9, 2021
