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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What’s a smokestorm? A meteorologist explains.
Seattle's Cliff Mass coined the word "smokestorm." Here's what he says we need to do to prevent another one.
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Zinke blames ‘environmental terrorists’ for wildfires. What the hell does that mean?
The tenuous link between ecoterrorism, logging, and wildfires is 20 years old.
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In defense of using ‘the new normal’ to describe climate change
Scientists say "the new normal" is a flawed description of a warming world. A lexicographer says it's just right.
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Should big corporations pay for clean energy? Portland voters will decide.
It's one of two climate change measures headed to the ballot in the Northwest this November.
