Articles by Chad Small
Chad Small is a freelance environmental and data journalist. He is a third-year PhD student in Atmospheric and Climate Science at the University of Washington, researching how information about tropical phenomena can improve our understanding of extreme rainfall and flooding events. He is a former data reporting fellow at Grist and climate change editorial fellow at the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. He is currently the 2025 AAAS Mass Media fellow with Inside Climate News.
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Cities’ biggest obstacle to flood-proofing isn’t money: It’s 50-year-old rainfall data.
Cities say they can’t plan for tomorrow’s storms using yesterday’s data.
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What states stand to gain if Biden hikes oil and gas royalty rates
The federal government might finally charge oil companies more to drill on public land. Here’s how much money Western states have been missing out on.
