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Katelyn Weisbrod

Katelyn Weisbrod

Audience Director

Katelyn Weisbrod is the Audience Director at Inside Climate News based in Minnesota. She previously wrote 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 manatee is seen in the Homosassa River in Florida with "TRUMP" inscribed in the algae on its back. Credit: Hailey Warrington

Warming Trends: A Manatee with ‘Trump’ on its Back, a Climate Version of Vivaldi’s Four Seasons and an Arctic Podcast

By Katelyn Weisbrod

A male jaguar carries off an ocelot at a watering hole in the Maya Biosphere Reserve in Guatemala. Credit: Washington State University

Warming Trends: Big Cat Against Big Cat, Michael Mann’s New Book and Trump Greenlights Killing Birds

By Katelyn Weisbrod

A new phone app called "Cranky Uncle" uses a science-denying uncle cartoon character to illustrate different methods of disinformation on science topics like climate change. Credit: Autonomy/John Cook

Warming Trends: The ‘Cranky Uncle’ Game, Good News About Bowheads and Steps to a Speedier Energy Transition

By Kristoffer Tigue, Katelyn Weisbrod, Sabrina Shankman

Jordan Avenue, north of Hart Street is getting a new surface coating similar to slurry seal on May 20, 2017 in Canoga Park, California. Instead of traditional black asphalt, this coat is a concrete color designed to reflect heat. Credit: John McCoy/MediaNews Group/Los Angeles Daily News via Getty Images

Warming Trends: School Lunches that Help the Earth, a Coral Refuge and a Quest for Cooler Roads

By Katelyn Weisbrod

Waste pickers show Coca-Cola branded plastic waste collected in South Africa. Photo Courtesy of Break Free From Plastic

Warming Trends: The Top Plastic Polluter, Mother-Daughter Climate Talk and a Zero-Waste Holiday

By Katelyn Weisbrod

People sit outside a restaurant that uses umbrella heaters on October 15, 2020 in Berlin, Germany. Credit: Maja Hitij/Getty Images

Warming Trends: Outdoor Heaters, More Drownings In Warmer Winters and Where to Put Leftover Turkey

By Katelyn Weisbrod

A new virtual reality simulation shows a user what a forest ecosystem may look like in 30 years as climate change takes effect.

Warming Trends: A Hidden Crisis, a VR Forest You Can Visit, a New Trick for Atmospheric Rivers

By Katelyn Weisbrod

A voter walks toward a polling location on election day in Austin, Texas on Nov. 3, 2020. Credit: Sergio Flores/AFP via Getty Images

Warming Trends: A Climate Win in Austin, the Demise of Butterflies and the Threat of Food Pollution

By Katelyn Weisbrod

Confused flour beetle (Tribolium confusum) is one of two species used in the experiment detailed in a recent Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences study. Credit: DeAgostini/Getty Images

Warming Trends: Battling Beetles, Climate Change Blues and a Tool That Helps You Take Action

By Katelyn Weisbrod

Tule Elk. Credit: Julia Kane/InsideClimate News

California Ranchers and Activists Face Off Over a Federal Plan to Cull a Beloved Tule Elk Herd

By Katelyn Weisbrod

People kayaking in Hobart Bay off Stephens Passage in Tongass National Forest, Southeast Alaska. Credit: Wolfgang Kaehler/LightRocket via Getty Images

The Trump Administration Moves to Open Alaska’s Tongass National Forest to Logging

By Katelyn Weisbrod

Boston City Councilor Michelle Wu thanks her supporters at her Election Night watch party on Nov. 5, 2019. Credit: Barry Chin/The Boston Globe via Getty Images

Boston Progressives Expand the Green New Deal to Include Justice Concerns and Pandemic Recovery

By Katelyn Weisbrod

Most of the Tongass National Forest in southeast Alaska is protected under the Roadless Rule. Credit: Wolfgang Kaehler/LightRocket via Getty Images

Alaska Tribes Petition to Preserve Tongass National Forest Roadless Protections

By Katelyn Weisbrod

A new study projects that all but possibly a few polar bear populations will face demographic declines by 2100 as the season with no sea ice elongates and extends polar bear fasts. Credit: Steven C. Amstrup/Polar Bears International

How Many Polar Bears Will Be Left in 2100? If Temperatures Keep Rising, Probably Not a Lot

By Katelyn Weisbrod

Sam Gronseth. Credit: Anna Belle Peevey/InsideClimate News

American Climate Video: He Lost Almost Everything in the Camp Fire, Except a Chance Start Over.

By Katelyn Weisbrod

American Climate Video: The Driftwood Inn Had an ‘Old Florida’ Feel, Until it Was Gone

By Katelyn Weisbrod

Polar bear cubs spend the first two months of their lives in their dens. A new study found that mothers are unlikely to evacuate their den with their cubs—even if their lives are threatened. Credit: Steven C. Amstrup/Polar Bears International

Polar Bear Moms Stick to Their Dens Even Faced With Life-Threatening Dangers Like Oil Exploration

By Katelyn Weisbrod

American Climate Video: Floodwaters Test the Staying Power of a ‘Determined Man’

By Katelyn Weisbrod

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