Katie Myers
Climate ReporterKatie Myers reports on climate in Appalachia through a partnership between BPR and Grist. She previously served as a climate solutions fellow at Grist. She also reported with the Ohio Valley ReSource and WMMT 88.7 FM in Whitesburg, Kentucky. Her freelance work has appeared in the BBC, NPR, Belt Magazine, and Scalawag Magazine, among others.
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Citizen scientists are monitoring climate change's impact on all kinds of living things in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. That work has become even more important now that federal budget cuts have resulted in trimming science agencies and reducing park staff. -
As pipes continue to break down in the French Broad Watershed, advocates and community members say the company is ignoring their requests for help. -
Councilmembers say the move was spurred by the data center in nearby Marble, as well as reports of water and energy issues nationwide. -
Harm reduction groups and health care workers helped avert the worst. But what about the next emergency? -
Recovery from substance use disorder requires community. What happens when a disaster tears that apart? -
Residents expressed fear of climate, environmental impacts -
The Trump administration wants to roll back the rule to boost tourism and wildfire safety, but some say that reasoning is misguided. -
The city’s history as a wellness mecca started with tuberculosis patients and lives on, according to tuberculosis researcher David Freedman. -
The Forest Plan allowance for logging threatened four endangered bat species, according to the ruling. -
A hearing on having a moratorium on data centers brought up memories of removal and extraction.
