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.

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Justine Calma

There’s no quick fix for climate change

Tracing the link between your phone and the next pandemic

The Navajo Nation faced water shortages for generations — and then the pandemic hit

Humans left behind a record amount of e-waste in 2019

New data zooms in on air pollution mapped by Google Street View cars

Satellites documented COVID-19’s impact from space

Surviving Paradise

Ford aims to be carbon neutral by 2050

Amazon boosts climate commitments and greenhouse gas emissions

Most Republicans and Democrats agree on these two climate strategies

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.

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