Kiley Bense
Reporter, Pennsylvania
Kiley Bense covers climate change and the environment with a focus on Pennsylvania, politics, energy, and public health. She has reported on the effects of the fracking boom in Pennsylvania, the expansion of the American plastics industry, and the intersection of climate change and culture. Her previous work has appeared in the New York Times, the Atlantic, Smithsonian Magazine, the Believer, and Sierra Magazine, and she holds master’s degrees in journalism and creative writing from Columbia University. She is based in Pennsylvania.
From the Frontlines of the Climate Movement, A Message of Hope
By Kiley Bense
A Composer’s Prayers for the Earth, and Humanity, in the Age of Climate Change
By Kiley Bense
Pacific Walruses Fight to Survive in the Rapidly Warming Arctic
By Kiley Bense
America’s Forests Are ‘Present and Vanishing at the Same Time’
By Kiley Bense
John Akomfrah’s ‘Purple’ Is Climate Change Art That Asks Audiences to Feel
By Kiley Bense
Why Saving the Whales Means Saving Ourselves
By Kiley Bense
Two Volcanologists on the Edge of the Abyss, Searching for the Secrets of the Earth
By Kiley Bense
In Pennsylvania, Home to the Nation’s First Oil Well, Environmental Activists Stage a ‘People’s Filibuster’ at the Bustling State Capitol
By Kiley Bense
What Denmark’s North Sea Coast Can Teach Us About the Virtues of Respecting the Planet
By Kiley Bense
In Dimock, a Pennsylvania Town Riven by Fracking, Concerns About Ties Between a Judge and a Gas Driller
By Kiley Bense
Imagining a World Without Fossil Fuels
By Kiley Bense
In Louisiana, Climate Change Threatens the Preservation of History
By Kiley Bense
Listening to the Endangered Sounds of the Amazon Rainforest
By Kiley Bense
The Poet Franny Choi Contemplates the End of the World (and What Comes Next)
By Kiley Bense
The Surprising History of Climate Change Coverage in College Textbooks
By Kiley Bense
Why the Language of Climate Change Matters
By Kiley Bense
