Articles by Senior Staff Writer Kate Yoder
Kate Yoder is a senior staff writer covering climate change through the lens of language, culture, and history. Her work has received a FOLIO: Eddie & Ozzie Award and a SEAL Environmental Journalism Award for bringing fresh perspective and social relevance to environmental issues. She has been at Grist since 2015 and is based in Seattle.
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![Collage of Jem Bendell, his paper, and photo of a melting glacier]()
![Collage of Jem Bendell, his paper, and photo of a melting glacier]()
What to expect when you’re expecting the end of the world
Jem Bendell predicted that society would collapse because of climate change. Then he tried to get on with his life.
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![Animation of the phrase 'climate change' changing into the phrase 'extreme weather']()
![Animation of the phrase 'climate change' changing into the phrase 'extreme weather']()
To keep climate science alive, researchers are speaking in code
Words considered "woke" are vanishing from National Science Foundation proposals. We tracked the changes.
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![Collage of smokestack photo duplicated, and flipped upside down on a yellow background]()
![Collage of smokestack photo duplicated, and flipped upside down on a yellow background]()
Big Oil has moved on from ‘greenwashing.’ Here’s the new playbook.
Over a few years, oil giants went from trumpeting climate pledges to saying fossil fuels are here to stay.
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![Photo of a discarded no-entry traffic sign lying on land parched by drought.]()
![Photo of a discarded no-entry traffic sign lying on land parched by drought.]()
The planet is overheating. Why is the news looking away?
Since 2021, global media coverage of climate change has dropped 38 percent. Blame wars, political chaos, and Jeffrey Epstein.
