Ashley Braun

About

Ashley Braun is Senior Editor of DeSmog. She is also an award-winning freelance science and environmental journalist, and a contributing science writer for Natural History Magazine. Her work has appeared in outlets including The Atlantic, Slate, Science, Scientific American, Discover Magazine, Hakai Magazine, and Medium. She also fact-checks for publications such as Science News. Ashley is a member of the Society of Environmental Journalists and National Association of Science Writers and serves as president of the Northwest Science Writers Association.

Find more of her writing at ashleybraun.com/writing and follow her on Twitter at @ashleybraun.

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A sweeping new report released today emphasizes just how intertwined the challenges of climate change and loss of biodiversity truly are. The Paris Climate Agreement and several other United Natio...
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The first year of Donald Trump’s presidency has seen a measurable difference in the way the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has been holding polluters accountable compared to the past 25...
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On a Monday morning at the end of October, Rob Ross asked a group of earth scientists and educators a question: How many of them had received copies of the Heartland Institute book Why Scientists D...
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BONN, GERMANY – Even if Donald Trump successfully withdraws the U.S. from the Paris climate accord in the next three years, Todd Stern, former climate envoy under Obama, doesn’t think the country w...
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BONN, GERMANY – From the United Nations climate summit in Bonn, Germany, Arnold Schwarzenegger declared he wasn’t worried about Donald Trump — not his threats to withdraw from the Paris agreement o...
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Environmental groups place a lot of attention on trying to stop new oil, gas, and coal development since current fossil fuel projects would likely already blow us past the less-than 2°C upper limit...
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With the next round of United Nations climate talks scheduled for November, eyes will be trained on how the United States chooses to engage — or not — now that President Donald Trump is withdrawing...
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It hasn't taken long for Donald Trump to make his mark (well, many marks) on the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). In the first six months in office, his EPA under Scott Pruitt has alread...
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In Paris in 2015, more than 195 nations committed to slowing the rise of global warming to less than 3.6°F (2°C). In 2016, renewable energy saw unprecedented growth around the world.  Yet in 2017,...
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Los Angeles is a city built on oil, and even today more than a thousand derricks still pump it from the shallow reserves beneath the city. While some oil wells are camouflaged behind colorfully pai...