Justine Calma is a senior science reporter at The Verge, where she covers energy and the environment. She’s also the host of Hell or High Water: When a Disaster Hits Home, a podcast from Vox Media and Audible Originals. Since reporting on the adoption of the Paris agreement in 2015, Justine has covered climate change on the ground in four continents. She won a Covering Climate Now award for her reporting on forest restoration in Costa Rica in 2025. “Power Shift,” her story about one neighborhood’s fight for renewable energy in New Orleans, was published in the 2022 edition of The Best American Science and Nature Writing. She received an honorable mention in the Society of Environmental Journalists awards in 2023 for her reporting on the environmental effects of crypto mining.

Find her on Instagram, Bluesky, Threads, and X, or reach her on Signal at bqe210.91.

Justine Calma

The World Meteorological Organization has ‘no immediate plans’ to name heatwaves

Wind farms could join oil rigs in the Gulf of Mexico

UK heatwave breaks records as Brits roast in 40 C temperatures

The UK’s blistering heatwave is just the beginning

Democratic lawmakers ask federal agencies to crack down on crypto mining

NASA just launched a powerful new instrument to study dust

Texas’ fragile grid isn’t ready for crypto mining’s explosive growth

Texas heatwave and energy crunch curtails Bitcoin mining

Uncontrolled rockets pose unnecessary risk, study finds

Dead solar panels are about to become a lot more valuable

is a senior science reporter covering energy and the environment with more than a decade of experience. She is also the host of Hell or High Water: When Disaster Hits Home, a podcast from Vox Media and Audible Originals.

Justine Calma

Senior Science Reporter

Senior Science Reporter

More From Justine Calma

Most Popular

Justine Calma

Senior Science Reporter

Senior Science Reporter

More From Justine Calma

Most Popular

The Verge Daily