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Emma Peterson

Emma Peterson

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Emma Peterson was an Arizona-based intern at Inside Climate News. Emma has a master’s degree in investigative journalism from the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Arizona State University. She went to the University of Arizona for undergrad and received a bachelor’s degree in global journalism and a minor in natural resources. She has experience in the water treatment industry and special interests in western ecosystems and toxicology.

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Denise Moreno Ramírez, Ph.D, talks to Dr. Jackie Maximillian about her research poster at the University of Arizona’s Earth Week SWESx Student Showcase where she won second place for her poster presentation in March of 2017. Credit: Courtesy photo

How an Arizona Medical Anthropologist Uses Oral Histories to Add Depth to Environmental Science

By Emma Peterson

Sandy Van Echo gives her friend's Nubian goat a good-luck kiss before the Arizona State Fair show begins on Friday, Oct. 27, 2023. Credit: Emma Peterson

What’s Going On With the Goats of Arizona

By Emma Peterson

Washington Gov. Jay Inslee appears before the House Energy and Commerce Committee's Environment and Climate Change Subcommittee on Capitol Hill in April 2019. The following month he signed the Pollution Prevention for Our Future Act regulating toxic chemicals in Washington state. Credit: Zach Gibson/Getty Images

Washington Law Attempts to Fill the Void in Federal Regulation of Hazardous Chemicals

By Emma Peterson

Reusable solar panel frames are stacked and bundled at We Recycle Solar in Yuma, Arizona, on August 8, 2023. Credit: Emma Peterson.

Making Solar Energy as Clean as Can Be Means Fitting Square Panels Into the Circular Economy

By Emma Peterson, Wyatt Myskow

Bats outside Carlsbad Caverns in New Mexico. Credit: Claudio Beduschi/REDA&CO/Universal Images Group via Getty Images

Desert Bats Face the Growing, Twin Threats of White-Nose Syndrome and Wind Turbines

By Emma Peterson

Kristen Pogreba-Brown collects data on ticks on the San Carlos Reservation in Arizona. Exposures to these ticks can come from household pets and cause bacterial diseases like Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever. Credit: Photo Courtesy of Kristen Pogreba-Brown.

Could ‘One Health’ be the Optimal Approach for Human, Animal and Environmental Health?

By Emma Peterson

In an aerial view, ranchers and other participants gather to observe cattle grazing in freshly opened pasture using adaptive grazing at CS Ranch, as they take part in the Soil Health Academy which teaches regenerative agriculture techniques, on June 1, 2022 in Cimarron, New Mexico. Credit: Mario Tama/Getty Images

Climate-Smart Cowboys Hope Regenerative Cattle Ranching Can Heal the Land and Sequester Carbon

By Emma Peterson

Power lines in Flagstaff, Arizona. Credit: Paul S. Howell/Liaison

SunZia Southwest Transmission Project Receives Final Federal Approval

By Emma Peterson

Steve Turcotte, president and one of the founders of Los Charros Foundation, looks down on his cattle ranch property in the Aravaipa Canyon Wilderness in Winkelman, Arizona, on May 8, 2023. Photo by Emma Peterson for Inside Climate News

Preserving the Cowboy Way of Life

By Emma Peterson

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