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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![A crowd of Fridays for Future protesters in Glasgow Scotland during Cop26 featuring a sign that says]()
![A crowd of Fridays for Future protesters in Glasgow Scotland during Cop26 featuring a sign that says]()
The progress (and failures) of COP26, in 3 charts
Gaps remain on emissions, finance, and fossil fuel production.
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![Collage: an oil pumpjack casting a shadow over a cluster of small houses]()
![Collage: an oil pumpjack casting a shadow over a cluster of small houses]()
California’s dirty little secret: Oil wells in the backyard
Even Texas and Wyoming do a better job protecting communities from oil and gas drilling.
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![Illustration: an apartment building with a green bow in front of it]()
![Illustration: an apartment building with a green bow in front of it]()
Has Fannie Mae’s $95 billion in green bonds made anything greener?
'We're looking at some measure of greenwashing in the largest program in the world.'
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The truth about Bitcoin’s energy use
Do cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin amount to climate arson or a clean-energy boon? It’s complicated.
