Articles by Associate Editor Claire Elise Thompson
Claire Elise Thompson is an associate editor at Grist, and the writer of the weekly solutions newsletter, Looking Forward. She has been at Grist since 2018, focusing on telling stories about climate solutions and the people leading them. She was a 2022 MJ Bear fellow with the Online News Association and participated in the inaugural Climate Beacons Newsroom Initiative with the Solutions Journalism Network. She is based in Seattle.
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Think like a mosquito
This week, we’re exploring how scientists are trying to get ahead of vector-borne diseases that are spreading with the changing climate.
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Ask a Climate Therapist: Traveler’s guilt
This week, licensed therapist Leslie Davenport answers one of your burning questions: How can you balance love for travel with guilt about its emissions?
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A windfall in West Texas
This week, we’re talking about how wind energy is bringing some surprising benefits to the residents of an oil and gas outpost in rural Texas.
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Be prepared
This week, we’re talking about prepping — and how that practice has begun to shift into the realm of common-sense disaster preparedness.