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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Interactive: IRA/BIL project map
From clean energy projects to bridges, this interactive tool shows what projects lawmakers announced in your neighborhood.
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![collage of a prison with oil pumpjacks propping it up]()
![collage of a prison with oil pumpjacks propping it up]()
10 states fund prisons using stolen Indigenous lands
State trust lands generate millions of dollars for carceral facilities and programs every year, largely from extractive industries like oil and gas drilling.
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![Digital collage of brain with brain coral on top half and clown fish swimming above]()
![Digital collage of brain with brain coral on top half and clown fish swimming above]()
Climate change is rewiring fish brains — and probably ours, too
Acidifying oceans are leading to sensory loss in fish. Scientists fear people might be next.
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The extractive industries filling public university coffers on stolen land
How 14 land-grant colleges took 8.2 million acres from 123 Indigenous nations.
