Michael Kodas

This story was supported in part by the Society of Environmental Journalists’ Fund for Environmental Journalism. OLYMPIC PENINSULA, Wash.—In the middle of a forest reserved for timber harvesting on Washington’s Olympic Peninsula, Mark Elbroch and two other members of the Olympic Cougar Project prepared to investigate a likely cougar den. They were tipped off to […]

Pulitzer Prize-winning, nonpartisan reporting on the biggest crisis facing our planet.

Pulitzer Prize-winning, nonpartisan reporting on the biggest crisis facing our planet.

Pulitzer Prize-winning, nonpartisan reporting on the biggest crisis facing our planet.

Pulitzer Prize-winning, nonpartisan reporting on the biggest crisis facing our planet.

Pulitzer Prize-winning, nonpartisan reporting on the biggest crisis facing our planet.

“‘The Deluge’ is a realist novel,” says author Stephen Markley of his 2023 epic. “It was about what we are going to live through, and now it's just about what we are living through.”

In the historic African American enclave, residents face rising costs, delayed aid and tough choices about rebuilding—or leaving.

Over the past year, environmental experts who have dedicated their lives to public service have watched the partisan, unilateral destruction of the agency they once helped run. “What’s happening at the EPA right now is not business as usual,” said Marc Boom, senior director of public affairs for the Environmental Protection Network (EPN), a group […]

Biogas made from dairy and pig manure has long been an energy source non grata for environmental groups across the country.  The fuel is touted by agribusiness, utilities and renewable natural gas developers as a way to reduce emissions from livestock operations. But advocates across the country have fought for years against government incentives for […]