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: 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.
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![Illustration: The Giving Tree with initials carved in it]()
![Illustration: The Giving Tree with initials carved in it]()
‘The Giving Tree’: How a children’s book became a parable for the climate crisis
And the Earth was happy. But not really.
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![a photo still from the movie Twilight with a foggy blue tree background and Edward and Bella in the foreground]()
![a photo still from the movie Twilight with a foggy blue tree background and Edward and Bella in the foreground]()
The ‘Twilight’ romance no one talks about
Bella fell for Forks and its forests. That fantasy transformed the town's reality.
