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Delaney Dryfoos

Delaney Dryfoos

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Delaney Dryfoos is a science journalist based in New York City and a fall fellow at Inside Climate News. She is a graduate student at New York University’s Science, Health & Environmental Reporting Program, where she also works as the managing editor for Scienceline. She is passionate about reporting on the intersection of health and the environment as well as working to make journalism more inclusive of disabled and LGBTQ+ sources and reporters. Previously, she worked in global health research, nonprofit communications and environmental radio show production. She studied biology, global health, policy journalism and media studies at Duke University.

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An aerial view over Brooklyn and the Rockaways, near Jamaica Bay. The tentative U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' coastal storm surge plan calls for one storm gate to be constructed at the entrance to Jamaica Bay. Credit: Lindsey Nicholson/UCG/Universal Images Group via Getty Images.

Frustrated by a Lack of Details, Communities Await Federal Decision on Protecting New York From Coastal Storm Surges

By Delaney Dryfoos

People walk inside UN headquarters, ahead the UN Water Conference, on March 22, 2023, in New York City. Credit: Leonardo Munoz/AFP via Getty Images

UN Water Conference Highlights a Stubborn Shortage of Global Action

By Delaney Dryfoos

Australian water scarcity activist Mina Guli completes her 200th marathon outside UN headquarters, ahead the UN Water Conference, on March 22, 2023, in New York City. Credit: Leonardo Munoz/AFP via Getty Images.

At the UN Water Conference, Running to Keep Up with an Ambitious 2030 Goal for Universal Water Rights

By Delaney Dryfoos

Fishermen pull up fish in their gillnet during a midwater pair trawl on the Gulf of Gascony sea, off the coast of France, on Jan. 8, 2020. Protecting high seas ecosystems would also benefit commercial fisheries nearer to the shore by boosting overall fish stocks. Credit: Loic Venance/AFP via Getty Images

Can the New High Seas Treaty Help Limit Global Warming?

By Delaney Dryfoos, Bob Berwyn

Contruction workers at the site of a flood defense project on the east side of Manhattan, New York City, on Dec. 11, 2021. After major storms highlighted New York's weaknesses in the face of climate change, the city is erecting a $1.45-billion system of walls and floodgates to protect it from rising sea levels. Credit: Ed Jones/AFP via Getty Images

New York City Begins Its Climate Change Reckoning on the Lower East Side, the Hard Way

By Delaney Dryfoos

Chef Sia demonstrates how to use an induction stove during a cooking lesson at the office of the Association for Energy Affordability in the Bronx. Photo Courtesy of WE ACT for Environmental Justice

Indoor Pollutant Concentrations Are Significantly Lower in Homes Without a Gas Stove, Nonprofit Finds

By Delaney Dryfoos, Victoria St. Martin

Demonstrators with The Animal Welfare Institute hold a rally to save the vaquita, the world's smallest and most endangered porpoise, outside the Mexican Embassy in Washington, D.C., on July 5, 2018. Credit: Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images

To Save the Vaquita Porpoise, Conservationists Entreat Mexico to Keep Gillnets Out of the Northern Gulf of California

By Delaney Dryfoos

Maxwell Frost, the winning candidate in Florida's 10th Congressional district, participates in the Pride Parade in Orlando, Florida, on Oct. 15, 2022. Credit: Giorgio Viera/AFP via Getty Images

The Nation’s Youngest Voters Put Their Stamp on the Midterms, with Climate Change Top of Mind

By James Bruggers, Darreonna Davis, Delaney Dryfoos

LEFT: Republican candidate for Senate Adam Laxalt speaks to a crowd at an election night event on June 14, 2022 in Reno, Nevada. Credit: Trevor Bexon/Getty Images RIGHT: Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto (D-Nevada) participates in a discussion on climate change-fueled extreme weather and its impact on local communities on July 22, 2021 in Washington, D.C. Credit: Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images

In Nevada’s Senate Race, Energy Policy Is a Stark Divide Between Cortez Masto and Laxalt

By Delaney Dryfoos

Steve Gephard, a former fisheries biologist with the Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection and an Atlantic salmon expert, is pictured on the banks of the Connecticut River in Deep River, Connecticut on Sept. 28, 2022. Gephard is now a consultant on damn removal and fish ladders. Credit: Cloe Poisson

Swimming Against the Tide, a Retired Connecticut Official Won’t Stop Fighting for the Endangered Atlantic Salmon

By Delaney Dryfoos

People walk along the beach looking at property damaged by Hurricane Ian on Sept. 29, 2022 in Bonita Springs, Florida. The storm made a U.S. landfall on Cayo Costa, Florida, and brought high winds, storm surges, and rain to the area causing severe damage. Credit: Sean Rayford/Getty Images

TikTok Just Became a Go-To Source for Real-Time Videos of Hurricane Ian

By Delaney Dryfoos, Katelyn Weisbrod

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