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Rachel Rodriguez

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Rachel Rodriguez is a recent graduate from the University of Notre Dame (M. Sc.), where she studied the effects of climate change on boreal forest tree growth. During her time in academia, she wrote for student-run newspapers and developed a website to discuss her research as well as environmental news. Now, as a Mass Media Fellow through the Association for the Advancement of Science, she will be using her expertise in climate change research—and her passion for social justice—to report for ICN.

Construction worker Joe Fitzpatrick keeps a towel around his neck to help him with the heat while working on the MBTA Green Line in Boston. Credit: David L. Ryan/The Boston Globe via Getty Images

Too Hot to Work, Too Hot to Play

By James Pothen, Emma Foehringer Merchant, Grace van Deelen, Hannah Loss, Myriam Vidal, Rachel Rodriguez, Samantha Hurley

A solar farm produces electricity near Bakersfield, Texas on Saturday, April 10, 2021. Credit: Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images

Texas Officials Blame Renewables for Heatwave Blackout Risk. Experts Say That’s Misleading

By Rachel Rodriguez

A worker collect sand affected by an oil spill at a shoreline in Karawang, West Java, Indonesia, Aug. 4, 2019. Credit: Andrew Gal/NurPhoto via

New Study Identifies Rapidly Emerging Threats to Oceans

By Rachel Rodriguez, Bob Berwyn

High-angle view of Prospect Park from the Mount Prospect reservoir, looking southwest over Flatbush Avenue, Brooklyn, New York, New York in 1895. Credit: Geo. P. Hall & Son/The New York Historical Society/Getty Images

Rediscovered Reports From 19th-Century Environmental Volunteers Advance the Research of Today’s Citizen Scientists in New York

By Rachel Rodriguez

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