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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![Photoshopped collage of the earth sitting in a room filled with smoke and fire saying "This is fine", based on the comic and subsequent meme by KC Green]()
![Photoshopped collage of the earth sitting in a room filled with smoke and fire saying "This is fine", based on the comic and subsequent meme by KC Green]()
Scientists didn’t expect wildfires this terrible for another 30 years
Megafires are so 2019. Now we're entering the era of gigafires.
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Believe it or not, Trump isn’t the first to propose nuking hurricanes
People have plenty of bad ideas for changing the weather. Only one has worked.
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Donald Trump’s secret weapon: Empathy
The first debate was a mess, and emotions are messy things.
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Smoke and COVID-19 drove us inside — but the air in there wants to kill you
The perils of breathing in 2020.
