Peter Aldhous
Peter Aldhous is a science and data reporter based in San Francisco. He got his break in journalism in 1989 as a reporter for Nature in London, fresh from a Ph.D. in animal behavior. Later he worked as European correspondent for Science, news editor for New Scientist and chief news & features editor with Nature, before moving to California in 2005 to become New Scientist’s San Francisco bureau chief. From 2015 to 2022 he worked on the science desk at BuzzFeed News. Peter also teaches investigative and policy reporting, data visualization, and news features writing in the Science Communication Program at the University of California, Santa Cruz. He is a two-time winner in the Global Editors Network Data Journalism Awards. His reporting has also been honored by the Association of British Science Writers, the Association of Health Care Journalists, the Society of Environmental Journalists, and the Royal Statistical Society.
How We Mapped Chicago’s Lead Pipe Problem and What We Learned
By Juanpablo Ramirez-Franco, Keerti Gopal, Peter Aldhous, Clayton Aldern, Amy Qin
US Guts Criticism of Indigenous Rights Abuses, Mentions of Climate Change From Annual Human Rights Reports
By Katie Surma, Peter Aldhous
The Biggest US LNG Exporter Is Claiming a Massive Tax Credit for Using Its Cargo as an ‘Alternative’ Fuel
By Phil McKenna, Peter Aldhous
Florida’s Home Insurance Crisis Hits Hardest in Some of the State’s Poorest Counties
By Amy Green, Peter Aldhous
Trump Administration Decommissions Sea Ice Data That Sounded an Alarm on Arctic Climate Change
By Peter Aldhous
EPA Funding Cuts Target Disadvantaged Communities, Analysis Shows
By Marianne Lavelle, Peter Aldhous
The Hidden Climate Costs of Exporting US Liquefied Natural Gas
By Phil McKenna, Peter Aldhous
Pesticidas venenosos cuentan la historia de dos Californias
By Liza Gross, Peter Aldhous
Agricultural Poisons Tell a Tale of Two Californias
By Liza Gross, Peter Aldhous
How Texas Diminished a Once-Rigorous Air Pollution Monitoring Team
By Dylan Baddour, Peter Aldhous
A medida que aumentan las temperaturas, más trabajadores mueren en el campo
By Liza Gross, Peter Aldhous
Dying in the Fields as Temperatures Soar
By Liza Gross, Peter Aldhous
Is China Emitting a Climate Super Pollutant in Violation of an International Environmental Agreement?
By Phil McKenna, Peter Aldhous
Oil and Gas Companies Spill Millions of Gallons of Wastewater in Texas
By Martha Pskowski, Peter Aldhous
A Texas Dairy Ranks Among the State’s Biggest Methane Emitters. But Don’t Ask the EPA or the State About It.
By Phil McKenna, Georgina Gustin, Peter Aldhous
California’s Top Methane Emitter is a Vast Cattle Feedlot. For Now, Federal and State Greenhouse Gas Regulators Are Giving It a Pass.
By Phil McKenna, Georgina Gustin, Peter Aldhous
