Daniel is a reporter covering climate adaptation for Climatewire. He joined E&E in 2003 and has held reporting and editing positions with several E&E News publications. His beat is focused on the intersection of climate change and business activity, with a particular emphasis on renewable energy, clean technology and smart grid applications. Before joining E&E, he worked as a newspaper, wire service and magazine journalist in Alabama and Maryland. He is a graduate of the University of Minnesota and the University of Alabama, and was a Knight Fellow in Specialized Journalism at the University of Maryland.
A band of heavy snow paired with temperatures just above freezing will send anxiety spiking through eastern North Dakota and western Minnesota this weekend, as residents of the Red River Valley brace for the latest flood tide caused by spring season snowmelt and runoff.
DENVER — The awards dinner had gone long. The wine was flowing freely. And Gina McCarthy had spent much of the day among old friends like Bob Perciasepe, her longtime U.S. EPA colleague and No. 2 at the agency she loved and led from 2013 to 2017.
DENVER — Katharine Hayhoe grew up in a mild Toronto climate where air conditioning was a Lake Ontario breeze through an open window. She migrated to West Texas 13 years ago, where today she holds two titles: "climate scientist" and "evangelical Christian."
Two years before Hurricane Irma made the Florida Keys a national symbol of climate risk, some residents of the nation's sun-drenched archipelago were already doing routine chores wearing hip-high waders.
The Florida Department of Transportation is building a new bridge to Mar-a-Lago that's 4 feet higher than the current one. But don't call it a climate adaptation project.