Emily J. Gertz joined DeSmog in 2020 as a contributing editor, working closely with global staff and freelancers on feature and investigative stories. A veteran journalist and author who has covered climate, environment, science, politics, policy, and technology for more than two decades, highlights of past roles include senior editor at Drilled (2020-2021) and associate editor at Participant Media’s TakePart news site (2014-2016). Emily’s bylines have appeared in The Guardian, Grist, Popular Science, Reveal, Popular Mechanics, Scientific American, HuffPost, Grist, Sierra, Audubon, Arctic Today, and more. Emily has also co-authored or contributed to several books, notably: Worldchanging: A User’s Guide for the 21st Century, The Science Writers’ Handbook, and Environmental Monitoring With Arduino.
Many Cannes Lions award winners have claimed credit for field work they didn’t do, positive impacts that can’t be confirmed, or campaigns that barely existed.
Agribusiness companies generate huge quantities of greenhouse gas pollution — and PR companies help them obscure it.
A 435-page review found the authors used standard climate denier tropes to produce a report riddled with errors.
Clintel’s fifth anniversary conference in town outside Amsterdam offers a glimpse of the group’s transatlantic ties.
Their ad campaigns for International Women’s Day champion empowerment even as climate change makes women’s lives harder and more dangerous.
The Bolloré family’s business empire — which includes Havas, one of the world’s biggest ad agencies — has longtime ties to the fossil fuel industry.
