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Georgina Gustin

Reporter, Washington, D.C.

Georgina Gustin covers agriculture for Inside Climate News, and has reported on the intersections of farming, food systems and the environment for much of her journalism career.  Her work has won numerous awards, including the John B. Oakes Award for Distinguished Environmental Journalism and the Glenn Cunningham Agricultural Journalist of the Year, which she shared with Inside Climate News colleagues. She has worked as a reporter for The Day in New London, Conn., the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and CQ Roll Call, and her stories have appeared in The New York Times, Washington Post and National Geographic’s The Plate, among others. She is a graduate of the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism and the University of Colorado at Boulder.
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Pauly Andy transports people and belonging using an all-terrain vehicles in Newtok, Alaska, where melting permafrost, sinking tundra and flooding disturbed the boardwalks on October 9, 2019. Credit: Bonnie Jo Mount/The Washington Post via Getty Images

Environmental Justice a Key Theme Throughout Biden’s National Climate Assessment

By Kristoffer Tigue, Georgina Gustin, Liza Gross, Victoria St. Martin

Recently cut timber in a forest near Daniel Boone National Forest. Credit: Jared Hamilton

Most Countries are Falling Short of Their Promises to Stop Cutting Down the World’s Trees

By Georgina Gustin

What to Know About New York’s Climate Ambition Summit

By Kristoffer Tigue, Georgina Gustin

A farm in Iowa is surrounded by flood water. Credit: Scott Olson/Getty Images.

As Climate-Fueled Weather Disasters Hit More U.S. Farms, the Costs of Insuring Agriculture Have Skyrocketed

By Georgina Gustin

Protestors demonstrating against the Bolivian government.

Agribusiness Giant Cargill Is in Activists’ Crosshairs for Its Connections to Deforestation in Bolivia

By Georgina Gustin

Covered manure lagoons or dairy digesters capture methane emissions as cow manure decomposes. The black plastic tarps at the North Dumas Farms appear to be collecting biogas as of November, 2022, but it remains unclear if the gas is being flared or injected into a gas pipeline for use as fuel. Credit: Google Earth

A Texas Dairy Ranks Among the State’s Biggest Methane Emitters. But Don’t Ask the EPA or the State About It.

By Phil McKenna, Georgina Gustin, Peter Aldhous

The Brandt Cattle Company feedyard in Southern California’s Imperial Valley composts dry manure in an open field, a process that avoids nearly all methane production and emissions from the feedlot's manure. Credit: Google Earth

California’s Top Methane Emitter is a Vast Cattle Feedlot. For Now, Federal and State Greenhouse Gas Regulators Are Giving It a Pass.

By Phil McKenna, Georgina Gustin, Peter Aldhous

Activists in Lisbon pose holding signs during a rally against maritime mining at Luis de Camoes square. The protest against deep sea mining is an initiative of Portuguese environmental non-governmental organizations as a preview to the World Ocean Day, under the slogan "Join us to give voice to the deep sea," which denounces the use of heavy machinery that destroys marine ecosystems. Credit: Jorge Castellanos/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images.

As an Obscure United Nations Gathering Deliberates the Fate of Deep-Sea Mining, the Tuna Industry Calls for a Halt

By Georgina Gustin

A worker moves newly-delivered pork to a wholesale butcher at Smithfield Market on Feb. 14, 2023 in London, England. Credit: Carl Court/Getty Images

International Lenders Continue Pouring Money Into Meat and Dairy, Despite Climate Promises

By Georgina Gustin

In a file photo, a Cargill facility on the Tapajos River in Santarem, a town on the trans-Amazonian highyway, in Brazil's Para state. Credit: NELSON ALMEIDA/AFP via Getty Images.

Activist Group ‘Names and Shames’ Cargill and Its Heirs to Keep Deforestation Promises

By Georgina Gustin

A farmer harvests corn on Oct. 22, 2015 near Burlington, Iowa. Credit: Scott Olson/Getty Images

Department of Agriculture Conservation Programs Are Giving Millions to Farms That Worsen Climate Change

By Georgina Gustin

A carcass of a cow is pictured as women carrying firewood walk in the background, in the area of Loiyangalani, Marsabit, northern Kenya, on July 12, 2022. Credit: Simon Maina/AFP via Getty Images

An Agricultural Drought In East Africa Was Caused by Climate Change, Scientists Find

By Georgina Gustin

John Duffy walks across a field he is planting in soybeans on April 23, 2020 near Dwight, Illinois. Credit: Scott Olson/Getty Images

As Emissions From Agriculture Rise and Climate Change Batters American Farms, Congress Tackles the Farm Bill

By Georgina Gustin

Families come to the Ammusait General Hospital malnutrition ward to tend to their sick children and family members. Staff is limited so family members become caretakers at the hospital. Credit: Larry C. Price

A Hospital Ward for Starving Children in Kenya Has Seen a Surge in Cases This Year

By Georgina Gustin

The body of a camel that died the day before of starvation lies near Marsabit, Kenya. Credit: Larry C. Price

In a Famed Game Park Near the Foot of Mount Kilimanjaro, the Animals Are Giving Up

By Georgina Gustin

Ali Liban Guracho walks past dozens of dead cattle outside Garissa, Kenya. Credit: Larry C. Price

Climate Change is Driving Millions to the Precipice of a ‘Raging Food Catastrophe’

By Georgina Gustin

Seagulls flock over the recently tilled ground as a farmer prepares his field in Ruthsburg, Maryland, on April 25, 2022. Credit: Jim Watson/AFP via Getty Images

Billions in USDA Conservation Funding Went to Farmers for Programs that Were Not ‘Climate-Smart,’ a New Study Finds

By Georgina Gustin

Aerial view of combine harvesting corn in a field near Jarrettsville, Maryland. Credit: Edwin Remsburg/VW Pics via Getty Images

Big Agriculture and the Farm Bureau Help Lead a Charge Against SEC Rules Aimed at Corporate Climate Transparency

By Georgina Gustin

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