Justine Calma

Justine Calma is a justice fellow for Grist, the environmental news website. She covers global health, climate change, gender and identity. She has written and produced multimedia stories for NBC News, Salon, Huffington Post, PBS' NOVA Next, WNYC, PRI's The World and more.

Justine is Filipina American and a California native with experience reporting from coast to coast in the United States and in Asia. She is an alumna of Columbia Journalism School and the Toni Stabile investigative program. She was a 2016 GroundTruth Climate Reporting Fellow, and a current member of the GroundTruth advisory board.

Residents of the seven villages of Imider — mostly Amazigh people, an indigenous group across north Africa also known as Berbers — have been protesting a nearby silver mine for years, saying it has contaminated their water supply. (Beth Murphy/GroundTruth)

Rights

Far from COP, indigenous Moroccans challenge silver mine in years-long protest

IMIDER, Morocco — Atop a foothill on the southern edge of Morocco’s Atlas Mountains, an indigenous community has...

People participate in a climate march in Marrakech during the U.N. climate conference, COP22. (Photo by David Tong/Flickr)

Season 3 - Living Proof |Episode 6

Trump and the next chapter on climate

Donald Trump's victory in the U.S. presidential election sent shockwaves around the world, but particularly at U.N. climate...

Worried climate justice advocates hold up a to-do list to address climate change and its many effects in lieu of Donald Trump's upcoming U.S. presidency. (Photo by Justine Calma/GroundTruth)

Audio

Audio: The world reacts to Trump

At the United Nations conference on climate change in Marrakech, 25,000 people from all over the world are...

Environment

UN climate head talks Trump, diplomacy and the US-Mexico border

MARRAKECH, Morocco – Patricia Espinosa is in a bind. The UNFCCC head, who hails from Mexico City, is...

A woman's shoes are seen in a day bar in Angeles City, notorious for its red light district and sex tourism. In the wake of typhoons, women and girls from climate change vulnerable areas, particularly Samar and Leyte, wind up in the sex trade after being displaced from storms. (Photo by Hannah Reyes Morales/GroundTruth)

Asia

Sex Trafficking in the Philippines

Sex Trafficking in the Philippines: Introduction A scene from Fields Avenue, the red light district in Angeles City,...

Climate change experts are worried about the Paris Agreement after the U.S. elected Donald Trump as its next president. Trump has previously said that he believes climate change is a hoax, but later denied those comments in a presidential debate.

Environment

In Morocco, a Trump presidency leaves climate change experts uncertain

MARRAKECH, Morocco – Donald Trump’s shocking victory in the U.S. presidential election reverberated through the international climate summit...

Young adults advocating for clean energy at the Democratic National Convention in Philadephia. (Photo by Bob Simpson/Flickr)

Environment

Young adults take on climate change and the establishment in New York, Paris and Marrakesh

NEW YORK – Climate change is taking center stage this week at the 71st United Nations General Assembly....

Environment

Meet the guy who builds drones to preserve forests… and learn how to make your own!

When Irendra Radjawali was a researcher studying coral reefs in Indonesia, he attached a point-and-shoot camera to a...

Environment

A word that nearly held up the climate deal

LE BOURGET, France — Sometimes the world revolves around the axis of a single word, and in this...

Environment

Women bear consequences of climate change and global conflict

LE BOURGET, Paris — The idea that climate change is intensifying conflict around the world is increasingly being accepted...

protesters at COP21

Environment

Youth Protest Draft Text of Climate Agreement

LE BOURGET, Paris – With the new draft text of the international climate agreement released today, hundreds of...

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