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Becca Owen
Aug 25, 20226 min read
Silver Storm: Once-in-A-lifetime Ice Storm Wrecks Trees in “Oregon’s Garden City”
“If you’re in the central Willamette Valley tonight,” the meteorologist on the news said, matter-of-factly, “you will lose power.”
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Richard Bednarski
Aug 2, 20225 min read
How a Local Journalist Reported on the Dixie Fire in His Backyard
I knew the Dixie Fire was unprecedented. I knew that climate change had a role in its massive size. I also knew that not all of it was bad.
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Richard Bednarski
Jul 12, 20229 min read
Are Our Sierra Nevada Towns Destined to Go Down in Flames?
Nearly twenty years after I left town, wildfires are posing a whole new threat to my homeland.
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Rose Schnabel
Jul 1, 20226 min read
Posible, probable, por supuesto: la evolución de la certeza en el reportaje de COVID-19
El reportaje de COVID-19 demuestra cómo la retórica puede cambiar profundamente la percepción de un hecho científico por parte del lector.
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Rose Schnabel
Jun 28, 20226 min read
Might, Maybe, Must: The Evolution of Certainty in COVID-19 Reporting
COVID-19 reporting is a clear example of how rhetoric can deeply change a reader’s perception of scientific fact.
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Saugat Bolakhe
Jun 7, 20227 min read
Daunting Work at the Third Pole
As I struggled to find words, Magar was gone — for he was more worried about his bread than my climate change lecture.
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Cara Doumbe Kingue
May 17, 20228 min read
Pourquoi combattre le réchauffement climatique nécessite aussi de combattre la misogynoir
Les femmes noires ont en même temps le « malheur » d’être des femmes et de ne pas assez l’être parce qu’elles sont noires.
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Cara Doumbe Kingue
May 17, 20227 min read
Perspective: Fighting Climate Change Is Also About Fighting Misogynoir
If Black women have some of the keys to tackling this crisis, then we need to make sure that they are rightfully considered in society.
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AJ Williams
May 3, 20228 min read
Chronic Illness Doesn’t Stop Me From Enjoying the Outdoors. Ableism Does.
The eternal search to feel small under a big sky has taken me from my own backyard to Big Sky Country and across the World.
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Kristen Vogt Veggeberg
Apr 16, 20229 min read
Perspective: A River Silenced
The fire was within the mountains, within the earth.
It was never meant to leave.
But it did.
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