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Kiley Bense

Kiley Bense

Kiley Bense is a writer and journalist whose work has previously been published in the New York Times, the Atlantic, the Believer, and elsewhere.

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Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro has convened a working group representing Pennsylvania’s oil and gas industries, labor unions and environmental organizations to secretly consider membership in the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI). Credit: Mark Makela/Getty Images.

Documents Reveal New Details about Pennsylvania Governor’s Secret Working Group on Greenhouse Gas Emissions

By Kiley Bense

Democrat Josh Shapiro delivers his victory speech on November 8, 2022, after his election as Pennsylvania governor. Credit: Mark Makela/Getty Images.

Secretive State Climate Talks Stir Discontent With Pennsylvania Governor

By Kiley Bense

Youth climate activist Julie Paramo, left, and Abby Leedy hold hands at the U.S. Capitol on Oct. 27, 2021 in Washington, D.C. Credit: Jemal Countess/Getty Images for Repairers Of The Breach

From the Frontlines of the Climate Movement, A Message of Hope

By Kiley Bense

A smoky sunset is seen over Lake Tahoe in this view from Lakeside Beach in South Lake Tahoe, California, on Sunday, Sept. 6, 2021. Credit: Jane Tyska/Digital First Media/East Bay Times via Getty Images

A Composer’s Prayers for the Earth, and Humanity, in the Age of Climate Change

By Kiley Bense

Pacific walruses rest on an ice floe in Russia. Credit: Sylvain Cordier/Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images

Pacific Walruses Fight to Survive in the Rapidly Warming Arctic

By Kiley Bense

Bluebells bloom in a wood in the Cheshire countryside on April 24, 2015 in Knutsford, England. Credit: Christopher Furlong/Getty Images

America’s Forests Are ‘Present and Vanishing at the Same Time’

By Kiley Bense

A general view of John Akomfrah: Purple exhibition at The Curve, Barbican on Oct. 5, 2017 in London, United Kingdom. Credit: Anthony Harvey/Getty Images for Barbican Art Gallery

John Akomfrah’s ‘Purple’ Is Climate Change Art That Asks Audiences to Feel

By Kiley Bense

Officials examine a dead beached whale on Rockaway beach on Dec. 13, 2022 in the Queens borough of New York City. Credit: Bryan Bedder/Getty Images

Why Saving the Whales Means Saving Ourselves

By Kiley Bense

A 3D satellite image of the Mount Unzen Volcano, on the Island of Kyushu, East of Nagasaki, Japan, in 1993. Two years earlier, volcanologists Katia and Maurice Krafft died there, studying the eruption. (Photo by Planet Observer/Universal Images Group via Getty Images.

Two Volcanologists on the Edge of the Abyss, Searching for the Secrets of the Earth

By Kiley Bense

A view of the Pennsylvania State Capitol. Credit: Paul Weaver/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images

In Pennsylvania, Home to the Nation’s First Oil Well, Environmental Activists Stage a ‘People’s Filibuster’ at the Bustling State Capitol

By Kiley Bense

People enjoy the sunset on the beach of North Sea near the village of Lakolk, Denmark, on Sept. 3, 2022. Credit: Sergei Gapon/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images

What Denmark’s North Sea Coast Can Teach Us About the Virtues of Respecting the Planet

By Kiley Bense

Three trucks go past a farm near Dimock, Pennsylvania. Credit: Carolyn Cole/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images

In Dimock, a Pennsylvania Town Riven by Fracking, Concerns About Ties Between a Judge and a Gas Driller

By Kiley Bense

A gasoline station attendant pumps diesel into a car at a filling station on March 23, 2010 in Berlin, Germany. Photo Illustration by Sean Gallup/Getty Images

Imagining a World Without Fossil Fuels

By Kiley Bense

In Louisiana, Climate Change Threatens the Preservation of History

By Kiley Bense

Indigenous activist Bitate Uru-Eu-Wau-Wau, poses at the premiere of National Geographic Documentary Film 'The Territory', in Sao Paulo, Brazil, on Sept. 5, 2022. Credit: Miguel Schincariol/AFP via Getty Images

Listening to the Endangered Sounds of the Amazon Rainforest

By Kiley Bense

A farmer in Kansas during the Great Dust Bowl of the 1930s attempts to work formerly fertile land buried in dust. Credit: © CORBIS/Corbis via Getty Images

The Poet Franny Choi Contemplates the End of the World (and What Comes Next)

By Kiley Bense

A student shuffles through a stack of used books at the U.C. Irvine bookstore on July 30, 2008. Credit: Don Bartletti/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images

The Surprising History of Climate Change Coverage in College Textbooks

By Kiley Bense

A drawing of a chestnut tree by American artist Thomas Cole. Photo Credit: Sepia Times/Universal Images Group via Getty Images

Why the Language of Climate Change Matters

By Kiley Bense

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