Kate Yoder
About Kate Yoder
Kate is a writer for Grist
The phrase 'natural disaster' is going up in smoke
You expect to see the phrase natural disaster all over the news when hurricanes, earthquakes, volcanic explosions, floods, or fires cause a lot of deaths and property damage. This fire season, however, politicians and other people are beginning to ditch natural disaster for phrases that are more specific — and more accurate.
Here's what conspiracy theorists really don't want you to know.
Coronavirus denial shares many similarities to climate denial, the dismissal of the scientific consensus around global warming.
How the oil industry pumped Americans full of fake news
The new season of the podcast "Drilled" investigates the oldest tricks in Big Oil’s book.
Gas and oil will save us all, or so the oil and gas companies say
Surprise! The industry is rebranding — again.
Birth strike, flygskam, Pyrocene: The language of climate change in 2019
2019 was a wild year for the climate — and the English lexicon.
Big Oil has spent billions to clean up its image
“You want to know one of the reasons we’re not acting on climate change? $3.6 billion spent on corporate propaganda might have something to do it.”
How humans kicked off the Pyrocene, a new ‘age of fire’
Are we reckoning with a new age of fire? Is this the Pyrocene?
Google searches for ‘climate change’ finally beat out Game of Thrones
According to your Google searches, September was climate change’s biggest month of all time. For the first time since Game of Thrones became a thing, Americans showed more interest in climate change than the plight of the scattered Stark family.