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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 she was twice named the Glenn Cunningham Agricultural Journalist of the Year, once with ICN 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.
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Corn is harvested in this aerial photograph taken above Malden, Illinois, on Wednesday, Sept. 30, 2015. Credit: Daniel Acker/Bloomberg via Getty Images

Despite Capitol Hill Enthusiasm for Planting Crops to Store Carbon, Few Farmers are Doing It, Report Finds

By Georgina Gustin

A Guambiano man harvests potatoes in the mountains outside Silvia, Cauca, Columbia. Credit: Ann Johansson/Corbis via Getty Images

Incursions Into Indigenous Lands Not Only Threaten Tribal Food Systems, But the Planet’s Well-Being

By Georgina Gustin

Farmers in Kenya. Credit: Geoffrey Omondi/Climate Visuals Countdown

Without ‘Transformative Adaptation’ Climate Change May Threaten the Survival of Millions of Small Scale Farmers

By Georgina Gustin

Land clearing of peatland forest to make way for a palm oil plantation in Aceh province, Indonesia, the habitat of the Sumatran orangutan, on November 1,3, 2016. The orangutans in Indonesia have been on the verge of extinction as a result of deforestation and poaching. Credit: Ulet Ifansasti/Getty Images

New Report: Climate Change and Biodiversity Loss Must Be Tackled Together, Not Separately

By Georgina Gustin

Farmers harvest watermelons in a field on March 26, 2021 in Wanning, Hainan Province of China. Credit: Yuan Chen/VCG via Getty Images

Greenhouse Gas Emissions From Food Production are Far Greater Than Previous Estimates Suggest

By Georgina Gustin

Trees Fell Faster in the Years Since Companies and Governments Promised to Stop Cutting Them Down

By Georgina Gustin

Cattle eating hay in cattle feedlot in Utah. Credit:Joe Sohm/Visions of America/Universal Images Group via Getty Images

Air Pollution From Raising Livestock Accounts for Most of the 16,000 US Deaths Each Year Tied to Food Production, Study Finds

By Georgina Gustin

Wranglers guide a herd of stranded cows to higher ground as flood waters rise, due to a levy break Sept. 24, 2005 in Chauvin, Louisiana. Hurricane Rita caused massive damage as it moved across western Louisiana. Credit: Sandy Huffaker/Getty Images

As Extreme Weather Batters America’s Farm Country, Costing Billions, Banks Ignore the Financial Risks of Climate Change

By Georgina Gustin

National Climate Adviser Gina McCarthy speaks as Special Presidential Envoy for Climate and former Secretary of State John Kerry listens during a daily press briefing at the James Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House on April 22, 2021 in Washington, DC. Credit: Alex Wong/Getty Images

Jobs and Technology Take Center Stage at Friday’s Summit, With Biden Pitching Climate Action as a Boon for the Economy

By James Bruggers, Georgina Gustin, Marianne Lavelle, Nicholas Kusnetz

President Joe Biden delivers remarks as Special Presidential Envoy for Climate and former Secretary of State John Kerry listens during a virtual Leaders Summit on Climate with 40 world leaders at the East Room of the White House April 22, 2021 in Washington, D.C. Credit: Al Drago-Pool/Getty Images

As Nations Gather for Biden’s Virtual Climate Summit, Ambitious Pledges That Still Fall Short of Paris Goal

By Marianne Lavelle, Georgina Gustin, Nicholas Kusnetz

Dan Duffy plants soybeans on April 23, 2020 near Dwight, Illinois. Credit: Scott Olson/Getty Images

Politicians Are Considering Paying Farmers to Store Carbon. But Some Environmental and Agriculture Groups Say It’s Greenwashing

By Georgina Gustin

Butchers working for 'G. Lawrence Wholesale Meat' prepare meat for sale in Smithfield Market on March 14, 2013 in London, England. Credit: Oli Scarff/Getty Images

Big Meat and Dairy Companies Have Spent Millions Lobbying Against Climate Action, a New Study Finds

By Georgina Gustin

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

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