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Amy Green

Amy Green

Contributor/Southeast Network Partner

Amy Green covers the environment and climate change at WMFE (NPR Orlando). She is an award-winning mid-career journalist and author whose extensive reporting on the Everglades is featured in the book MOVING WATER, published by Johns Hopkins University Press, and podcast DRAINED, available wherever you get your podcasts. Amy’s work has been heard on NPR and seen in PEOPLE, Newsweek, The New York Times, The Christian Science Monitor, among many other publications. She is a frequent partner with Inside Climate News. She began her career at The Associated Press in Nashville, Tennessee. Amy grew up in Florida and lives in Orlando with her 7-year-old daughter.

A manatee swims among seagrass in the Homosassa River on Oct. 5, 2021 in Homosassa, Florida. Credit: Joe Raedle/Getty Images

Saving Starving Manatees Will Mean Saving This Crucial Lagoon Habitat

By Amy Green

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has made the environment a priority of his administration, but a new report shows that the state Department of Environmental Protection conducted fewer inspections in 2020 than the year before. Credit: Paul Hennessy/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images

In Florida, Environmental Oversight Improves Under DeSantis, But Enforcement Issues Remain

By Amy Green

The vast majority of manatee deaths have been in the Indian River Lagoon, a biological diverse east coast estuary that has been plagued with water quality problems and widespread seagrass losses. Photo Courtesy of The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission

Florida’s Majestic Manatees Are Starving to Death

By Amy Green

Transition from Sawgrass to coastal habitat in Everglades National Park. Credit: National Park Service

Moving Water in the Everglades Sends a Cascade of Consequences, Some Anticipated and Some Not

By Amy Green

Remote sensing of methane from high altitude aircraft reveals plumes of the gas coming from the open face, on the left, and from a vent, on the right, at the River Birch landfill outside New Orleans in April 2021. Researchers from the University of Arizona, Arizona State University, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and Carbon Mapper calculate the rate of methane venting at approximately 2,000 kilograms per hour, which would be 48 metric tons per day. Credit: University of Arizona, Arizona State University, NASA JPL and Carbon Mapper.

EPA Struggles to Track Methane Emissions From Landfills. Here’s Why It Matters

By James Bruggers, Amy Green, Phil McKenna, and Robert Benincasa

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis speaks at a new conference in the state held at the Jackson Memorial Hospital on July 13, 2020 in Miami, Florida. Credit: Joe Raedle/Getty Images

DeSantis Recognizes the Threat Posed by Climate Change, but Hasn’t Embraced Reducing Carbon Emissions

By James Bruggers, Amy Green

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis is seen during a press conference on June 8, 2020 in Miami, Florida. Credit: Eva Marie Uzcategui/Getty Images

Two Years Ago, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis Was Praised for Appointing Science and Resilience Officers. Now, Both Posts Are Vacant.

By James Bruggers, Amy Green

Evacuees rest in a makeshift shelter at an elementary school in Florida ahead of Hurricane Matthew in 2016. Credit: Jewel Samad/AFP via Getty Images

Hurricane Season Collides With Coronavirus, as Communities Plan For Dual Emergencies

By James Bruggers, Amy Green

Solar panels in Orlando, Florida. Credit: Amy Green, WFME

Orlando Aims High With Emissions Cuts, Despite Uncertain Path

By Amy Green

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