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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![Photo of an excavator pouring a large volume of salt]()
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Earth is getting extra salty, an ‘existential threat’ to freshwater supplies
Salt can contaminate aquifers, corrode pipes, and accelerate snowmelt.
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![Photo of a leaf blower blasting orange leaves into the air]()
![Photo of a leaf blower blasting orange leaves into the air]()
Hear that? It’s the sound of leaf blower bans.
As restrictions spread, neighborhoods are getting quieter — and cleaner.
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![A photo of red knobs on a gas stove.]()
To obscure the risks of gas stoves, utilities borrowed from Big Tobacco’s playbook
Industry-funded research downplayed health hazards as far back as 1974, documents show.
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Climate change has toppled some civilizations but not others. Why?
The link between environmental disasters and societal collapse, explained.
