Joan Meiners, Ph.D. 🐝🚴‍♀️

Grateful to have just been awarded 1st place for 2023 Environment Reporting from @AZPressClub for my narrative investigation into Arizona's climate + housing crises. Thx to @mit_esi for support & congrats to my @azcentral colleagues on the category sweep!
azpressclub.org/2024/11/19/202…

Last month, a whole slew of news outlets publ. that the cottonwoods uprooted in AZ for the border wall were “ancient”, or 200 years old. Apparently none fact-checked this w/ a scientist.

I did. She said they’re at most 146, but age is not why they matter:
azcentral.com/story/news/env…

It has been a wild week as a #climate reporter in Arizona. On Mon, I hiked to bottom of #GrandCanyon to report on deadly #flashflood. No one else has done that.

Today, my story is front of @azcentral. My photos are in WaPo. And I went on @12News to explain role of #climatechange

As far as I know, I’m the only reporter to make it to the bottom of the Grand Canyon on foot since the major flash flooding damage on Aug. 29.
instagram.com/reel/DcxDIfND0…

Wait...are they putting a paywall of sorts on the White House website? We now can't read executive orders without signing up for Trump's email list?! Has anyone else run into this?