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Liza Gross

Liza Gross

Reporter, West Coast, National Environmental Reporting Network

Liza Gross is a reporter for Inside Climate News based in Northern California. She is the author of The Science Writers’ Investigative Reporting Handbook and a contributor to The Science Writers’ Handbook, both funded by National Association of Science Writers’ Peggy Girshman Idea Grants. She has long covered science, conservation, agriculture, public and environmental health and justice with a focus on the misuse of science for private gain. Prior to joining ICN, she worked as a part-time magazine editor for the open-access journal PLOS Biology, a reporter for the Food & Environment Reporting Network and produced freelance stories for numerous national outlets, including The New York Times, The Washington Post, Discover and Mother Jones. Her work has won awards from the Association of Health Care Journalists, American Society of Journalists and Authors, Society of Professional Journalists NorCal and Association of Food Journalists.

Can California Reduce Dairy Methane Emissions Equitably?

By Liza Gross

Water birds fly over the Sacrameno-San Joaquin River Delta, which boasts a diversity of flora and fauna that thrive in wetlands about the size of Orange County. Credit: Luis Sinco/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images

A Delta in Distress

By Liza Gross

A farmworker wears a face mask while harvesting curly mustard in a field on Feb. 10, 2021 in Ventura County, California. Credit: Patrick T. Fallon/AFP via Getty Images

For Farmworkers, Heat Too Often Means Needless Death

By Liza Gross

Forests of the Living Dead

By Liza Gross

Residents gather in a public cooling shelter set up at the Oregon Convention Center during a heatwave in Portland, Oregon, on Saturday, June 26, 2021. Credit: Maranie Staab/Bloomberg via Getty Images

A Deadly Summer in the Pacific Northwest Augurs More Heat Waves, and More Deaths to Come

By Bob Berwyn, James Bruggers, Liza Gross

Chardonnay grapevines in the Russian River Valley flood on March 12, 2018, near Sebastopol, California. Credit: George Rose/Getty Images

How Capturing Floodwaters Can Reduce Flooding and Combat Drought

By Liza Gross

In an aerial view, a tractor kicks up dust as it plows a dry field on May 25, 2021 in Madera, California. As California enters an extreme drought emergency, water is starting to become scarce in California's Central Valley. Credit: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images

As California’s Drought Worsens, the Biden Administration Cuts Water Supplies and Farmers Struggle to Compensate

By Liza Gross

Tyrone Hayes, an endocrinologist at the University of California, Berkeley, speaks at King University. In 2002, Hayes reported that atrazine, manufactured by Swiss agrochemical giant Syngenta, turned male frogs into hermaphrodites. Credit: Earl Neikirk

Fighting Attacks on Inconvenient Science—and Scientists

By Liza Gross

Sheep graze in a dry field near the town of McFarland in California's Central Valley, August 24, 2016. The Central Valley is the state's agriculture hub producing vast quantities of fruits, vegetables, nuts as well as dairy, beef and lamb but struggled through five years of the last drought. Credit: ROBYN BECK/AFP/Getty Images

California’s Relentless Droughts Strain Farming Towns

By Liza Gross

A helicopter sprays insecticide on a field outside of El Centro, California in the Imperial Valley on Wednesday, Feb. 11, 2015. Credit: Sandy Huffaker/Corbis via Getty Images

In California’s Farm Country, Climate Change Is Likely to Trigger More Pesticide Use, Fouling Waterways

By Liza Gross

A severe hard freeze in California's Wine Country caused vineyard managers to launch frost protection measures to protect the budding grapevines on January 21, 2018 in Los Alamos, California. Credit: George Rose/Getty Images

Ice-fighting Bacteria Could Help California Crops Survive Frost

By Liza Gross

Icicles created by drip irrigation are illuminated by a car's headlights during a cold snap January 17, 2007 in Orange Cove, California. Credit: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images

Warmer Temperatures May Offer California Farmers a Rare Silver Lining: Fewer Frosts

By Liza Gross

Grapevines at a vineyard in Sonoma County, California, November 27, 2016. Sonoma County experienced an outbreak of Pierce's disease in 2014. Credit: Smith Collection/Gado/Getty Images

Warmer California Winters May Fuel Grapevine-Killing Pierce’s Disease

By Liza Gross

An almond orchard in Tulare County in the San Joaquin Valley, California Almond Orchard, Tulare County, San Joaquin Valley, California. Credit:Citizens of the Planet/Education Images/Universal Images Group via Getty Images

In California, a Warming Climate Will Help a Voracious Pest—and Hurt the State’s Almonds, Walnuts and Pistachios

By Liza Gross

A fisherman hooks up crab pots to be taken off a boat at Pier 45 in San Francisco, California, on Monday, Dec. 23, 2019. Credit: David Paul Morris/Bloomberg via Getty Images

As Warming Oceans Bring Tough Times to California Crab Fishers, Scientists Say Diversifying is Key to Survival

By Liza Gross

An Amur tiger at the Bronx Zoo on Dec. 14, 2017 in New York City. Credit: James Devaney/Getty Images

Animals Can Get Covid-19, Too. Without Government Action, That Could Make the Coronavirus Harder to Control

By Liza Gross

Jacob Katz, director of Central Valley operations for the conservation nonprofit California Trout, looks out on the Sacramento River, near the Rough and Ready Pumping Station.

Harnessing Rice Fields to Resurrect California’s Endangered Salmon

By Liza Gross

Grapevines at Castello di Amorosa, in the Napa Valley Wine Country, Calistoga, California, December 22, 2019.

Clues From Wines Grown in Hot, Dry Regions May Help Growers Adapt to a Changing Climate

By Liza Gross

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