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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How the climate movement is trying to fix Joe Biden

Intel aims to reach 100 percent renewable energy use, zero waste by 2030

It’s already getting too hot and humid in some places for humans to survive

Even with people staying in, carbon dioxide is breaking records

It’s Wednesday: here’s a bear in a tub

A majority of coronavirus deaths in the US were in disproportionately black counties

Waterfront parks could rob tsunamis of their power

Thirsty koalas lick trees

Clean energy could get Americans back to work post-pandemic

Pollution rollbacks show a ‘callous disregard’ for communities hard hit by COVID-19

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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