Katie Worth

Katie Worth is an investigative reporter at FRONTLINE PBS, where her work explores science, politics, and their myriad intersections. She began her professional life at the Pacific Daily News on Guam, and later worked as an enterprise reporter for the San Francisco Examiner. In 2011 she moved to Santiago, Chile, where she spent three years admiring the Andes, eating too many empanadas, and freelancing stories for Scientific American, National Geographic, Slate and Vice. In 2014 she moved back to the North American continent as an Anne O’Hare McCormick Scholar at Columbia Journalism School’s Masters of Arts program for mid-career journalists. Her stories have won several awards, and one was selected for inclusion in “The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2016.” She is a Climate Change Reporting Fellow with GroundTruth.

Inside Idaho’s long legislative battle over climate change education

What schools should teach kids about climate change – or whether to teach it at all – has...

Aspirational climate goal embraced at U.N. talks, but not by U.S.

For decades, diplomatic discussions have focused on how to keep Earth’s average temperatures from warming more than 2...

Camp Fire children face trauma of climate change at home, school

Before school principal Josh Peete led the caravan of teachers and staff around the police barricade, past the...

Dueling books compete to educate kids on climate change

The group that mailed books and DVDs arguing that global warming isn’t real to science teachers around the...

In shift, key climate denialist group Heartland Institute pivots to policy

Few entities have worked harder to instill doubt in American minds about the science of climate change than...

The Last Generation

The Last Generation: An interactive film on the Marshall Islands (Photo by Michelle Mizner/GroundTruth/FRONTLINE) By The GroundTruth Project|April...

A dueling campaign to influence science teachers' approach to teaching climate change highlights how classrooms have emerged as a battleground in the American political war over climate change. (Pixabay)

Mailings to teachers spotlight a political fight over climate change in the classroom

Last spring, science teachers across the nation began receiving unsolicited packages containing classroom materials from a libertarian group...

German students inside the "Climate Planet" in Bonn, Germany, where the latest United Nations climate conference was held. (Katie Worth/GroundTruth)

A Dispatch from Bonn: How Germany Uses Morality to Teach Climate Change

BONN, Germany -- Last week, as world leaders were holed up in a United Nations conference center negotiating...

A Dispatch From Bonn: “1.5 To Stay Alive”

BONN, Germany – One of 12-year-old Faith Debrum’s favorite hobbies is diving off the seawall in front of...

Sequoyah Nuclear Power Plant near Chattanooga, Tennessee. (Photo by Photorush/Flickr)

Deep Divide Over Trump Climate Policy On Display at U.N. Talks

BONN, Germany — The Trump administration on Monday used its only event at the United Nations climate talks...

A shot of the 21st annual “conference of the parties” (COP) under the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), which took place in 2014. This year's conference will mark the 23rd COP climate change meeting.

Amid U.N. Climate Talks, Trump Officials Attend Event Hosted By Skeptics

BONN, Germany — As global leaders gathered here at the annual United Nations climate talks Thursday, several senior...

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