Articles by Senior Data Reporter Clayton Aldern
Clayton Aldern is a data reporter and data visualization developer. He has contributed to reporting teams that have won various awards, including a national Edward R. Murrow Award, multiple Online Journalism Awards, multiple Sigma Awards, and the Breaking Barriers Award from the Institute for Nonprofit News. He is the author of The Weight of Nature: How a Changing Climate Changes Our Brains.
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Trees lining California streets are worth an extra $1 billion a year
A new study calculates the value of the trees that line the state’s roads.
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![Illustration picture of postal ballot papers June 1, 2016 ahead of the June 23 BREXIT referendum when voters will decide whether Britain will remain in the European Union.]()
![Illustration picture of postal ballot papers June 1, 2016 ahead of the June 23 BREXIT referendum when voters will decide whether Britain will remain in the European Union.]()
Britain might leave the European Union. Here’s what that could mean for the climate.
A climate hawk’s guide to the Brexit vote.
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![From L-R, Christiana Figueres, Executive Secretary of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, French Foreign Affairs Minister Laurent Fabius, President-designate of COP21 and French President Francois Hollande react during the final plenary session at the World Climate Change Conference 2015 (COP21) at Le Bourget, near Paris, France, December 12, 2015.]()
![From L-R, Christiana Figueres, Executive Secretary of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, French Foreign Affairs Minister Laurent Fabius, President-designate of COP21 and French President Francois Hollande react during the final plenary session at the World Climate Change Conference 2015 (COP21) at Le Bourget, near Paris, France, December 12, 2015.]()
France ratifies U.N. climate deal. Your move, rest of world.
It is the first major industrialized country to do so.
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House Republicans just voted against a nonexistent carbon tax
Next on the agenda: Santa Claus, unicorns, nuclear fusion.
