Kate Yoder
About Kate Yoder
Kate is a writer for Grist
During wildfires and hurricanes, a language gap can be deadly
The importance of translating emergency warnings is often a lesson learned too late.
Do we need more scary climate change articles? Maybe
“You can’t just sit around waiting for hope to come,” Greta Thunberg told European leaders in 2019. “Then you are acting like spoiled, irresponsible children. You don’t seem to understand that hope is something that you have to earn.”
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.”