Articles by Jena Brooker
Jena Brooker is an environmental reporter for BridgeDetroit and was Grist's 2021 Midwest reporting fellow.
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![Indigenous leaders and their water-protector allies protest Enbridge Line 3 in St. Paul, Minnesota]()
![Indigenous leaders and their water-protector allies protest Enbridge Line 3 in St. Paul, Minnesota]()
To solve the climate crisis, we must first repair our relationships
Environmental justice scholar Kyle Whyte on reframing the climate conversation through the lens of "kinship time."
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![Flooding in Barataria, Louisiana, from Hurricane Ida]()
![Flooding in Barataria, Louisiana, from Hurricane Ida]()
How sea-level rise is making hurricanes like Ida more destructive
The Gulf Coast has some of the highest sea-level rise in the country, in part due to climate change.
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![Collage: silhouette of Illinois, an oak savanna, and a Black farmer covered by an oil pipeline]()
![Collage: silhouette of Illinois, an oak savanna, and a Black farmer covered by an oil pipeline]()
Does rural Illinois really need a new gas pipeline?
In this historic Black farming community, some want renewables instead.
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![Cover of book]()
Disasters aren’t natural — they’re political, a new book argues
Preparing for climate change means urgently reimagining disaster management.
