How Reporters From Across The U.S. Cover The Climate 'Emergency'

This story is part of “Covering Climate Now,” a week-long global initiative of over 250 news outlets.

Across the world, journalists are stationed from Antarctica to the Amazon covering how climate change is impacting people’s lives.

At KQED in California, Molly Peterson has covered disasters like the Camp Fire, the deadliest and most destructive wildfire in California history that killed 85 people last year, the Woolsey Fire, which scorched 70,000 acres and killed three people in 2018, and the deadly mudslides in Montecito that killed 23 people the same year.

“When you have a forest fire in California, there are a lot of factors that go into