Kala Hunter
Climate Change Reporter at Columbus Ledger-Enquirer
Climate Change Reporter @ledgerenquirer tips: [email protected] @Medillschool, '23
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1 week ago |
yesmagazine.org | Breanna Draxler |Kala Hunter
At the northern tip of Wisconsin, a river meanders northward to the world’s second-largest freshwater lake. As it flows, the river gives life to walleye as well as wolves and medicinal plants. Where the waters reach Lake Superior, abundant—but vulnerable—wild rice grows. This land and this river have been home to the Mashkiigong-ziibiing and their ancestors, the Chippewa, Ojibwe, and Anishinabe, for more than 500 years.
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1 week ago |
macon.com | Kala Hunter
Several months after relief funding was passed for the farmers who were hurt by the historically-damaging Hurricane Helene, those impacted got an answer to when they’ll see their approved money from the federal government. The hurricane, which killed 227 people across multiple states, swept through Georgia in September. It left weeks-long power outages, destroyed property and tens of thousands of damaged farmland in its wake.
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2 weeks ago |
ledger-enquirer.com | Kala Hunter
For decades, offshore wind energy engineers and scientists have researched and made the pitch that coastal wind energy can supply needed energy to the grid, emission-free, that will spin for decades into the future. Not everyone has bought in. Georgia, for example, is one of only two states on the East Coast that lacks any offshore wind energy plans, according to a 2024 offshore wind market report.
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3 weeks ago |
ledger-enquirer.com | Kala Hunter
Rusty Blackston sorts through his binder of notes and paperwork about the Brightmark Thomaston Circularity Center at a restaurant in Thomaston in April 2025. Last April, when a 2.5 million square foot plastic waste intake plant was proposed in Thomaston - about halfway between Macon and Columbus - it ignited opposition from residents and environmental advocacy groups.
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1 month ago |
ledger-enquirer.com | Kala Hunter
Sen. Raphael Warnock (left) and Sen. Jon Ossoff (right), both Georgia Democrats, have raised concern about the closure of a water quality office in Georgia. The Department of Government Efficiency is seeking to cancel the office's lease. Left photo by Mike Haskey.
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