Senior Science Reporter
Justine Calma is a senior science reporter at The Verge, where she covers energy and the environment. She’s also the host of Hell or High Water: When a Disaster Hits Home, a podcast from Vox Media and Audible Originals.
Since reporting on the adoption of the Paris agreement in 2015, Justine has covered climate change on the ground in four continents. "Power Shift" her story about one neighborhood’s fight for renewable energy in New Orleans was published in the 2022 edition of The Best American Science and Nature Writing.
Find her on Instagram, Threads, Bluesky, and X.
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Planting trees is a controversial way to fight climate change, but tech companies still rely on the strategy to meet sustainability goals.
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Offsets are supposed to allow companies and consumers to cancel out some of their CO2 emissions — but are notorious for failing. Plant a tree to capture carbon, for example, and that tree could eventually release all the CO2 if it doesn’t survive for hundreds of years.
The Biden administration laid out new guidelines today aimed at making offsets work, although many environmental advocates are still skeptical.
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