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Ashley Braun

About

Ashley Braun is Senior Editor of DeSmog. She is also an award-winning freelance science and environmental journalist, and a contributing science writer for Natural History Magazine. Her work has appeared in outlets including The Atlantic, Slate, Science, Scientific American, Discover Magazine, Hakai Magazine, and Medium. She also fact-checks for publications such as Science News. Ashley is a member of the Society of Environmental Journalists and National Association of Science Writers and serves as president of the Northwest Science Writers Association.

Find more of her writing at ashleybraun.com/writing and follow her on Twitter at @ashleybraun.

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This week, a federal court overturned the Trump administration’s approval for what would have been Alaska’s first drilling project in federal waters, citing faulty analyses of how the Arctic oil an...
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This story is a part of Covering Climate Now’s week of coverage focused on Climate Solutions, to mark the 50th anniversary of Earth Day. Covering Climate Now is a global journalism collaboration co...
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It may come as something of a surprise to regular readers of DeSmog that we are joining more than 250 other news outlets in a global collaboration called “Covering Climate Now,” led by The Nation a...
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By now, it’s no secret that oil companies have been long aware of the risks of climate change from burning fossil fuels. Exxon had “no doubt” that carbon dioxide was a global threat by the late 197...
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Just in case fossil fuel companies had forgotten when and how much they knew about the impacts their products have had on the climate, a reminder came at them in court this week. On January 29, si...
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I never thought I’d live to see an orca in the wild, a sobering prospect for someone in her 30s living in the Pacific Northwest. Or rather, I never thought the orcas would live long enough for me t...
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In August, President Donald Trump told a rally in West Virginia: “We are back. The coal industry is back.” And to be sure, Trump keeps trying to revive the dying U.S. industry by doing things like ...
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It's hard to keep up with the flood of news these days. Here's your weekly round-up of news not to miss from DeSmog. Justin Mikulka has been on the oil train beat for years. He's documented how th...
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Under the purported banner of national security, Energy Secretary Rick Perry appears again to have heeded the self-described “desperate” calls of coal baron Robert Murray in order to prop up dying ...
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The private security firm TigerSwan, known for its controversial military-style tactics against Dakota Access pipeline protesters, is appealing the decision to deny its application for a license to...