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Georgina Gustin

Reporter, Washington, D.C.

Georgina Gustin covers agriculture for Inside Climate News, and has reported on the intersections of farming, food systems and the environment for much of her journalism career.  Her work has won numerous awards, including the John B. Oakes Award for Distinguished Environmental Journalism and the Glenn Cunningham Agricultural Journalist of the Year, which she shared with Inside Climate News colleagues. She has worked as a reporter for The Day in New London, Conn., the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and CQ Roll Call, and her stories have appeared in The New York Times, Washington Post and National Geographic’s The Plate, among others. She is a graduate of the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism and the University of Colorado at Boulder.
The Amazon Rainforest. Credit: Diego Baravelli/picture alliance via Getty Images

The Best Protection For Forests? The People Who Live In Them.

By Georgina Gustin

A soy plantation in the Amazon rainforest near Santarém in the state of Pará, Brazil, on May 13, 2006. Credit: Ricardo Beliel/Brazil Photos/LightRocket via Getty Images

Big Banks Make a Dangerous Bet on the World’s Growing Demand for Food

By Georgina Gustin

The Mount Storm coal fired power station sits on a man-made lake near Mount Storm, West Virginia. Credit: Michael S. Williamson/The Washington Post via Getty Images

Court Strikes Down Trump Rollback of Climate Regulations for Coal-Fired Power Plants

By Georgina Gustin

U.S. President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris look on as Tom Vilsack, U.S. President-elect Joe Biden’s nominee to head the Department of Agriculture, delivers remarks at the Queen Theater December 11, 2020 in Wilmington, Delaware. Vilsack served for eight years as President Barack Obama’s secretary of Agriculture. Credit: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images

Biden Climate Plan Looks For Buy-in From Farmers Who Are Often Skeptical About Global Warming

By Georgina Gustin

Hogs are raised on July 25, 2018 near Osage, Iowa. Smithfield Foods and Dominion Energy have set out to capture the methane emitted from giant hog manure “lagoons,” convert it into biogas and inject that biogas into pipelines to heat homes and buildings.

As the Livestock Industry Touts Manure-to-Energy Projects, Environmentalists Cry ‘Greenwashing’

By Georgina Gustin

An aerial view of mostly harvested farmland at sunset on Oct. 30, 2020 in Lacona, Iowa. Credit: Mario Tama/Getty Images

An Unlikely Alliance of Farm and Environmental Groups Takes on Climate Change

By Georgina Gustin

Rise and Resist activist group marching to demand climate and racial justice i n New York City on Sept. 20, 2020.

With Biden’s Win, Climate Activists See New Potential But Say They’ll ‘Push Where We Need to Push’

By Georgina Gustin

U.S. President Donald Trump and Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden participate in the final presidential debate at Belmont University on Oct. 22, 2020 in Nashville, Tennessee. Credit: Jim Bourg-Pool/Getty Images

In Final Debate, Trump and Biden Display Vastly Divergent Views—and Levels of Knowledge—On Climate

By Georgina Gustin

Democratic Kansas state senator Barbara Bollier (left) and U.S. Rep. Roger Marshall (R-Kan.) are vying for a seat in the Senate to represent Kansas. Credit: Barbara Bollier; Mark Reinstein/Corbis via Getty Images

Senate 2020: In Kansas, a Democratic Climate Hawk Closes in on a Republican Climate Skeptic

By Georgina Gustin

Democrat Theresa Greenfield (left) is running against Sen. Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) to represent Iowa in the Senate. Credit: Caroline Brehman/CQ Roll Call; Greg Nash/Pool/AFP via Getty Images

Senate 2020: Iowa Farms Feel the Effects of Climate Change. Will That Make it Harder for Joni Ernst?

By Georgina Gustin

Cattle are seen after they were driven across the border from Mexico into the United States in Santa Teresa, New Mexico. Credit: Joe Raedle/Getty Images

Wealthy Nations Are Eating Their Way Past the Paris Agreement’s Climate Targets

By Georgina Gustin

Credit: Joe Raedle/Getty Images

Think Covid-19 Disrupted the Food Chain? Wait and See What Climate Change Will Do

By Georgina Gustin

Meat shelves lay empty at a supermarket in Saugus, Massachusetts on March 13, 2020. Credit: Joseph Prezioso/AFP via Getty Images

Empty Grocery Shelves and Rotting, Wasted Vegetables: Two Sides of a Supply Chain Problem

By Georgina Gustin

COP’s Postponement Until 2021 Gives World Leaders Time to Respond to U.S. Election

By Georgina Gustin

New York Mayor Bill De Blasio hands out reusable bags on Feb. 28, 2020, ahead of a plastic bag ban, The ban was postponed because of the coronavirus pandemic

Polluting Industries Cash-In on COVID, Harming Climate in the Process

By Dan Gearino, Georgina Gustin, James Bruggers, Kristoffer Tigue

White cattle spread on pastures cultivated in the rainforest next to the Xingu river in Sao Felix do Xingu in Para state, northern Brazil. Credit: Yasuyoshi Chiba/AFP via Getty Images

Our Growing Food Demands Will Lead to More Corona-like Viruses

By Georgina Gustin

Two new studies this week bring up new information on the sources of methane in the atmosphere. Credit: Spencer Platt/Getty Images

Two New Studies Add Fuel to the Debate Over Methane

By Georgina Gustin

Farm in Russia. Credit: Stanislav KrasilnikovTASS via Getty Images

Billions of Acres of Cropland Lie Within a New Frontier. So Do 100 Years of Carbon Emissions

By Georgina Gustin

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