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

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Bloomberg’s climate plan doesn’t set him apart from other 2020 candidates

Europe’s Green Deal on climate change failed its first test

This was the decade climate change slapped us in the face

Carbon markets could strengthen or screw over global action on climate change

Caring about climate change is trendy on Tinder

TED launches global climate initiative with help from YouTube

John Kerry, Arnold Schwarzenegger wage ‘World War Zero’ on climate change

The ‘Amazon effect’ is flooding a struggling recycling system with cardboard

Weather forecasters lost the battle for strict interference limits on 5G

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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