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Liza Gross

Liza Gross

Reporter, California

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.

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Barbara Sattler, a visionary environmental and climate public health leader, talks about how to help build community resilience to a warming world. Credit: Liza Gross

Q&A: California Nurse and Environmental Health Pioneer Barbara Sattler on Climate Change as a Medical Emergency

By Liza Gross

La desastrosa inundación de Pájaro volvió inhabitable la casa que Emilio Vásquez alquilaba con su familia. Todavía no saben cuándo podrán volver a vivir ahí. Crédito: Liza Gross

Una inundación catastrófica en la costa central de California profundizó la crisis de los ya marginados trabajadores agrícolas indígenas

By Liza Gross

Photo illustration by Derek Harrison. Credits: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images; Celal Gunes/Anadolu Agency; courtesy of Joby Bernstein

Climate Takes a Back Seat in High-Profile California Primary Campaigns. One Candidate Aims to Change That

By Liza Gross

Trabajadores agrícolas en un campo cerca de Bakersfield, California. Crédito: Citizen of the Planet/UCG/Universal Images Group via Getty Images

A medida que aumentan las temperaturas, más trabajadores mueren en el campo

By Liza Gross, Peter Aldhous

The health of farmworkers is put at risk as growers continue to apply toxic fumigants around Watsonville, Calif. Credit: Wally Skalij/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images

California Pesticide Regulators’ Lax Oversight Violates Civil Rights Laws, Coalition Charges

By Liza Gross

California Isn’t Ready for a Megaflood. Or the Loss of Daniel Swain.

By Liza Gross

Smoke rises from the Oak Fire near Mariposa, Calif. on July 24, 2022. The wildfire burned through several thousand acres while Californians dealt with record-setting temperatures. Credit: David McNew/AFP via Getty Images

Converging Climate Risks Interact to Cause More Harm, Hitting Disadvantaged Californians Hardest

By Liza Gross

A view of Expo City during COP28 in Dubai, United Arab Emirates on Dec. 12, 2023. Credit: Wang Dongzhen/Xinhua via Getty Images

COP28 Left a Vacuum California Leaders Aim to Fill

By Liza Gross

Groundwater-fed irrigation of maize in Kabwe, Zambia. Credit: Mark Hughes

Groundwater Levels Around the World Are Dropping Quickly, Often at Accelerating Rates

By Liza Gross

Plastic additives called bisphenols are found in a dizzying array of products—like canned food linings. Credit: Li Jianguo/Xinhua via Getty Images

More Than 900 Widely Used Chemicals May Increase Breast Cancer Risk

By Liza Gross

Biologist Sandra Steingraber attends the Build Series at Build Studio on March 10, 2017 in New York City. Credit: Bennett Raglin/WireImage

Q&A: Anti-Fracking Activist Sandra Steingraber on Scientists’ Moral Obligation to Speak Out

By Liza Gross

Farmworkers work in a field near Bakersfield, Calif. Credit: Citizen of the Planet/UCG/Universal Images Group via Getty Images

Dying in the Fields as Temperatures Soar

By Liza Gross, Peter Aldhous

Scientist Rebellion, Extinction Rebellion and other scientist-activist groups staged a play dramatizing the threats fossil fuel development pose to the planet at the American Geophysical Union annual meeting in San Francisco. Credit: Liza Gross/Inside Climate News

Will the American Geophysical Union Cut All Ties With the Fossil Fuel Industry?

By Liza Gross

David Choquehuanca Cespedes, vice president of Bolivia, speaks during day two at COP28 in Dubai. He is a member of the Aymara nation, raised in an Indigenous community on the shores of Lake Titicaca. Credit: Sean Gallup/Getty Images

Indigenous Leaders Urge COP28 Negotiators to Focus on Preventing Loss and Damage and Drastically Reducing Emissions

By Liza Gross

Pauly Andy transports people and belonging using an all-terrain vehicles in Newtok, Alaska, where melting permafrost, sinking tundra and flooding disturbed the boardwalks on October 9, 2019. Credit: Bonnie Jo Mount/The Washington Post via Getty Images

Environmental Justice a Key Theme Throughout Biden’s National Climate Assessment

By Kristoffer Tigue, Georgina Gustin, Liza Gross, Victoria St. Martin

Spraying an agricultural field on the eastern shore of Maryland. Credit: Edwin Remsburg/VW Pics via Getty Images

Toxic Pesticides Are Sprayed Next to Thousands of US Schools

By Liza Gross

Cilantro grows on farmland near San Luis Obispo Regional Airport in California that has been irrigated with well water contaminated with high levels of PFAS chemicals from firefighting foam that for years was used in training exercises at the airport in August. Credit: Brian van der Brug / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images

EPA to Fund Studies of Toxic ‘Forever Chemicals’ in Agriculture

By Liza Gross

Caitlin Kupar prepares to give a cougar kitten a health assessment while visiting a den on Washington state's Olympic Peninsula in June.

Crowding Out Cougars

By Liza Gross,  Photos by Michael Kodas

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