Sunday, February 8, 2026

Amy Westervelt, Matthew Green and Joey Grostern

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Amy Westervelt is a climate journalist who contributes to The Guardian and The Intercept and runs the climate reporting project Drilled. In 2023 she was named one a Covering Climate Now's "Journalist of the Year." Matthew is global investigations editor at DeSmog, leading coverage of the global climate crisis, energy politics, and the struggles for environmental justice through an international lens. He has previously worked at Reuters and the Financial Times, and writes the Resonant World newsletter exploring connections between the climate crisis and collective trauma. Joey Grostern is a climate reporter and researcher at DeSmog since April 2023. His work focuses on news media and has been covered by The Guardian, The Intercept and The Nation. He also works freelance for Deutsche Welle in Berlin

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