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: Earth on top of a superhero cape]()
![Collage: Earth on top of a superhero cape]()
Don’t expect heroes (or evil villains) in this history of the climate crisis
Who's responsible for this mess? A new book says it's complicated.
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![A girl sits on the ground alone with a sign saying SOS and a sad-looking Earth.]()
![A girl sits on the ground alone with a sign saying SOS and a sad-looking Earth.]()
Study: More than half of young people think ‘humanity is doomed’
It’s the first study to find that climate anxiety is connected to government inaction.
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![Collage: Silhouette of the United States with crushed plastic bottles]()
![Collage: Silhouette of the United States with crushed plastic bottles]()
Corporations tried to blame you for the plastic crisis. Now states are turning the tables.
As recycling heads to the dump, Maine and Oregon have a new strategy: Make companies pay.
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![The word mitigation spelled out with Scrabble tiles surrounded by question marks]()
![The word mitigation spelled out with Scrabble tiles surrounded by question marks]()
Study: The public is pretty confused by your climate change jargon
Carbon neutral? Mitigation? People don't know the words scientists think they do.
