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Katelyn Weisbrod

Katelyn Weisbrod

Columnist and Web Producer, St. Paul

Katelyn Weisbrod is a reporter and web producer for Inside Climate News based in Minnesota. She writes ICN’s weekly Warming Trends column highlighting climate-related studies, innovations, books, cultural events and other developments from the global warming frontier. She joined the team in January 2020 after graduating from the University of Iowa with Bachelor’s degrees in journalism and environmental science. Katelyn previously reported from Kerala, India, as a Pulitzer Center student fellow, and worked for over four years at the University of Iowa’s student newspaper, The Daily Iowan.

A portion of an aqueduct to move water to the east side of the San Joaquin Valley, is viewed on July 8, 2021, thirty minutes east of Fresno, California. Credit: George Rose/Getty Images

Warming Trends: Forests Are the Best Big-City Water Filters, Plus Veggie Burgers by Default, Sea Songs by ET’s Doctor and a Reminder to Eat Fresh Food in the Fridge

By Katelyn Weisbrod

Sleeping Beauty Castle in the rain at Disneyland in Anaheim, California, on Thursday, March 12, 2020. Credit: Jeff Gritchen/MediaNews Group/Orange County Register via Getty Images

Warming Trends: Weather Guarantees for Your Vacation, Plus the Benefits of Microbial Proteins and an Urban Bias Against the Environment

By Katelyn Weisbrod

People take picture beneath cherry blossoms near the national assembly on April 09, 2022 in Seoul, South Korea. Seoul's famous Yeouiseoro street is open for people to enjoy the cherry blossom season after two years of closures due to the Covid-19 pandemic. Credit: Chung Sung-Jun/Getty Images

Warming Trends: Nature and Health Studies Focused on the Privileged, $1B for Climate School and Old Tires Detour Into Concrete

By Katelyn Weisbrod

A flock of birds flies over the border between Eagle Pass, Texas, and Piedras Negras, Coahuila state, Mexico, on Feb. 16, 2019. Credit: Julio Cesar Aguilar/AFP via Getty Images

Warming Trends: Tracking Bird Migration in the Night Sky, Plus the Olympic Mountains’ Rapidly Shrinking Glaciers and a Podcast Focused on Florida’s Polluted Environment

By Katelyn Weisbrod

A sign warning of a no swim advisory warns visitors at Lido Beach on Aug. 26, 2018 in Sarasota, Florida. Credit: Eve Edelheit for The Washington Post via Getty Images

Warming Trends: Smelly Beaches in Florida Deterred Tourists, Plus the Dearth of Climate Change in Pop Culture and Threats to the Colorado River

By Katelyn Weisbrod

Activists from 'Just Stop Oil' close down the Gray's Inter Terminals by boarding fuel haulage vehicles on April 1, 2022 in Grays, England. Credit: Guy Smallman/Getty Images

Warming Trends: British Morning Show Copies Fictional ‘Don’t Look Up’ Newscast, Pinterest Drops Climate Misinformation and Greta’s Latest Book Project

By Katelyn Weisbrod

The coastal Inuit community of Arctic Bay on Lancaster Sound in Canada's high Arctic. Baffin Island. Credit: Kike Calvo/Universal Images Group via Getty Images

Warming Trends: The Climate Atlas of Canada Maps ‘the Harshities of Life,’ Plus Christians Embracing Climate Change and a New Podcast Called ‘Hot Farm’

By Katelyn Weisbrod

A couple walk along a trail wearing masks as people get out of their home and walk, jog, cycle or ride horses in Griffith Park in Los Angeles on Saturday, May 9, 2020. Credit: Keith Birmingham/MediaNews Group/Pasadena Star-News via Getty Images

Warming Trends: How Urban Parks Make Every Day Feel Like Christmas, Plus Fire-Proof Ceramic Homes and a Thriller Set in Fracking Country

By Katelyn Weisbrod

Andean Flamingos taking flight at a lagoon in the Atacama Desert near San Pedro de Atacama, northern Chile. Credit: Wolfgang Kaehler/LightRocket via Getty Images

Warming Trends: Lithium Mining’s Threat to Flamingos in the Andes, Plus Resilience in Bangladesh, Barcelona’s Innovation and Global Storm Warnings

By Katelyn Weisbrod

A man walking dogs in Hyde Park, London. Credit: Victoria Jones/PA Images via Getty Images

Warming Trends: Why Walking Your Dog Can Be Bad for the Environment, Plus the Sexism of Climate Change and Taking Plants to the Office

By Katelyn Weisbrod

Abbot Pass Hut sits on the continental divide between Alberta and British Columbia. Credit: Parks Canada

Warming Trends: A Famed Mountain Hut Falls Victim to Warming, Climate Concerns Brazil’s Voters and an Author Explores the Intersection of Environmentalism and Social Justice

By Katelyn Weisbrod

Views while ascending and descending Mount Evans, in Clear Creek County, Colorado, on July 11, 2017. The mountain is named for a former Colorado governor who played a role in the Sand Creek Massacre which saw 150 Native Americans slaughtered. Credit: Patrick Gorski/NurPhoto via Getty Images

Warming Trends: Banning a Racist Slur on Public Lands, and Calculating Climate’s Impact on Yellowstone, Birds and Banks

By Katelyn Weisbrod

A group of tourists in a safari caravan all hold up their cameras to snap photos of the wildlife. Chobe National Park in Botswana. Credit: Edwin Remsberg/VWPics/Universal Images Group via Getty Images

Warming Trends: Extracting Data From Pictures, Paying Attention to the ‘Twilight Zone,’ and Making Climate Change Movies With Edge

By Katelyn Weisbrod

Humpback whale seen near Tonga. Credit: Auscape/Universal Images Group via Getty Images

Warming Trends: The Cacophony of the Deep Blue Sea, Microbes in the Atmosphere and a Podcast about ‘Just How High the Stakes Are’

By Katelyn Weisbrod

A view of the defendant's table in a courtroom. Credit: Robyn Beck/AFP via Getty Images

Warming Trends: Telling Climate Stories Through the Courts, Icy Lakes Teeming with Life and Climate Change on the Self-Help Shelf

By Katelyn Weisbrod

A Chinese man wears a protective mask as he waits to cross a nearly empty intersection on Feb. 26, 2020 in Beijing, China. Credit: Kevin Frayer/Getty Images

Warming Trends: Cooling Off Urban Heat Islands, Surviving Climate Disasters and Tracking Where Your Social Media Comes From

By Katelyn Weisbrod

Skiiers compete during the Alpine Skiing Team Event quarter-finals at the Jeongseon Alpine Center during the Pyeongchang 2018 Winter Olympic Games in PyeongChang on Feb. 24, 2018. Credit: Martin Bernetti/AFP via Getty Images

Warming Trends: Winterless Olympics, a Disaster Novel Shows the Importance of Storytelling in Climate Conversations and a New Lab Studies Parks and Warming

By Katelyn Weisbrod

The Dixie Fire pushes through the Genesee Valley on Aug. 21, 2021 in Genesee, California. Credit: Allison Dinner/Getty Images

Warming Trends: Americans’ Alarm Grows About Climate Change, a Plant-Based Diet Packs a Double Carbon Whammy, and Making Hay from Plastic India

By Katelyn Weisbrod

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