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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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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

The disastrous Pajaro flood made the home Emilio Vasquez rents with his family unlivable. He's still waiting to hear when he can move back in. Credit: Liza Gross

A Catastrophic Flood on California’s Central Coast Has Plunged Already Marginalized Indigenous Farmworkers Into Crisis

By Liza Gross

Roundup, the world's top weedkiller: Credit: Photo Illustration by Scott Olson/Getty Images.

Roundup Weedkiller Manufacturers to Pay $6.9 Million in False Advertising Settlement

By Liza Gross

John Carter looks at old oil field equipment covered by vegetation near his home February 18, 2016 in Depew, Oklahoma. Thousands of abandoned oil wells were never properly mapped and many of the original drilling companies no longer exist. Credit: J Pat Carter/Getty Images)

Abandoned Oil and Gas Wells Emit Carcinogens and Other Harmful Pollutants, Groundbreaking Study Shows

By Liza Gross

What Is Produced Water?

By Liza Gross, Dylan Baddour

A large fracking operation becomes a new part of the horizon with Mount Meeker and Longs Peak looming in the background on Dec. 28, 2017 in Loveland, Colorado. Credit: Helen H. Richardson/The Denver Post via Getty Images

Colorado Frackers Doubled Freshwater Use During Megadrought, Even as Drilling and Oil Production Fell

By Liza Gross

In Signal Hill, California, an oil pump jack stands idle near homes, in February 2023. California law S.B. 1137, which required a safety buffer zone of 3,200 feet around homes and schools for new oil and gas drilling, was suspended after the petroleum industry last year collected enough signatures in a petition campaign to place a referendum on the 2024 general election ballot. The bill was originally signed into law by Governor Gavin Newsom last year and also banned new drilling near parks, health care facilities, prisons and businesses open to the public. Credit: Mario Tama/Getty Images.

Environmental Justice Advocates Urge California to Stop Issuing New Drilling Permits in Neighborhoods

By Liza Gross

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