Katie Myers

1 week ago | indyweek.com | Katie Myers

An interview with author Denali Sai Nalamalapu on storytelling, fossil fuels, and the Mountain Valley Pipeline.

1 week ago | yahoo.com | Katie Myers

Protesters at an Mountain Valley Pipeline construction site in 2023. (Katie Myers | BPR)This coverage is made possible through a partnership between BPR and Grist, a nonprofit environmental media organization. The Mountain Valley Pipeline transports natural gas through West Virginia and Virginia. But for 10 years, climate activists and worried locals opposed it, even locking themselves to equipment and camping in the pipeline’s path.

2 weeks ago | grist.org | Katie Myers

Sandra Anderson didn’t think the storm would be too bad. When her grandchildren asked if the dogs should be brought in, Anderson demurred, saying they’d be fine. But later that night, an alert on her phone warned her of a tornado tearing through her hometown of London, Kentucky. Seconds later, it hit her neighborhood.  “I hollered for my handicapped son to hit the hallway,” Anderson said. “Windows were exploding.

3 weeks ago | grist.org | Katie Myers

Nearly 30 billion-dollar storms rocked the United States last year. Thanks to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s disaster tracking database, we know that catastrophes are getting more expensive overall, and we’re seeing more of them crossing the 10-figure threshold. But the era of billion-dollar disasters is over, because the Trump administration announced late last week that it will no longer update the database.

3 weeks ago | grist.org | Katie Myers

This coverage is made possible through a partnership between Grist and BPR, a public radio station serving western North Carolina. Lauren Bacchus is one of many people in Asheville who are strangely enamored with the city’s sinkholes. She’s a member of the Asheville Sinkhole Group, an online watering hole of more than 3,400  people in and around this North Carolina city who eagerly discuss the chasms that mysteriously emerge from time to time.