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Michael Kodas’s work has appeared in the New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, The Boston Globe, Newsweek, Outside.com, OnEarth.org, GEO, Der Spiegel, The Denver Post, The Atlanta Journal and Constitution, and numerous other publications in the United States and abroad. He has appeared on the PBS NewsHour with Judy Woodruff, All Things Considered on National Public Radio, Dateline NBC, and many other radio and television programs. From 1987 until 2008 he was a staff photographer, picture editor and writer at The Hartford Courant, in Hartford, Connecticut.
Last Earth Day, Wynn Bruce Set Himself on Fire Outside the Supreme Court. I Tried to Understand Why
Some saw my former student’s actions as a climate protest. As I examined the years leading up to his death, I found his grief for our planet was undeniable.
Inside Climate News
Chernobyl Is Not the Only Nuclear Threat Russia’s Invasion Has Sparked in Ukraine
The potential for fires in the “Red Forest” still tainted by radioactive fallout from the 1986 meltdown, and 15 reactors running elsewhere in the country, pose greater risks.
Inside Climate News
Fueled by Climate Change, Wildfires Threaten Toxic Superfund Sites
Blazes at the imperiled hazardous waste sites could release toxins ranging from acid mine drainage to radioactive smoke.
Inside Climate News
Huge Western Fires in 1910 Changed US Wildfire Policy. Will Today’s Conflagrations Do the Same?
Known as the Big Blowup, the 1910 fires helped birth the Forest Service, but so far, climate change and the burning West have spurred little action.
Inside Climate News
A Siege of 80 Large, Uncontained Wildfires Sweeps the Hot, Dry West
As fires spread into Washington, Oregon and Montana, the arrival of the Santa Ana winds means more conflagrations for California.
Inside Climate News
The Fires May be in California, but the Smoke, and its Health Effects, Travel Across the Country
Fine particulate matter and ozone from wildfire smoke are associated with heart and lung diseases, compromised immune systems and even vulnerability to Covid-19.
Inside Climate News
California and Colorado Fires May Be Part of a Climate-Driven Global Transformation of Wildfires
Wildfires from Australia to Siberia are not just larger, hotter and faster, but burning in areas and seasons where they were previously rare.
Inside Climate News
Video: Dreamer who Conceived of the Largest Arctic Science Expedition in History Now Racing to Save it
Covid-19 and rapid Arctic warming are pushing hundreds of scientists’ research about critical climate questions onto increasingly thin ice.
Inside Climate News
The Largest Arctic Science Expedition in History Finds Itself on Increasingly Thin Ice
Covid-19 is just one of many setbacks for hundreds of scientists pursuing critical climate questions in the world’s most remote and inhospitable environment.
Image Credit: Esther Horvath/Alfred Wegner Institute
Inside Climate News
Implosion
So Ugly.
Northeast Magazine
Call Of The Wild Fires
After five years of drought, the Saturday lightning strike on Crazy Woman Mountain, in Wyoming’s Big Horn Range, was virtually guaranteed to start a fire.
The Hartford Courant
Breaking Barriers
Anne Parmenter dreamed of climbing in the Himalayas. Now that she’s here, will she be up to the task?
The Hartford Courant
Restrictions On Fishermen Are creating A Disturbing Effect — Waste
A year ago, the fishermen working in the Gulf of Maine and their regulators seemed to be looking at different oceans.
The Hartford Courant
Wilderness Journey
So Ugly.
The Hartford Courant
Fished Out
The Hartford Courant