Justine Calma is a senior science reporter at Vox Media’s The Verge, where she covers clean energy and the environment. She’s also the host of Hell or High Water: When Disaster Hits Home, a podcast from Vox Media and Audible Originals. Since the adoption of the Paris agreement in 2015, Justine has reported on climate change and solutions on the ground in four continents. “Power Shift,” her story about one neighborhood’s fight for clean energy in New Orleans in the wake of Hurricane Ida was published in the 2022 HarperCollins anthology, The Best American Science and Nature Writing. Her reporting on the environmental effects of crypto mining received an honorable mention in the Society of Environmental Journalists awards in 2023. She previously covered environmental justice at Grist and taught a nonfiction climate writing class for the MFA program at The City College of New York. She is an alumna of Columbia Journalism School's Toni Stabile investigative program and the Ida B. Wells fellowship at The Nation Institute's Investigative Fund. Her writing can also be found on NBC News, PBS, PRI's The World, WNYC, FiveThirtyEight, Quartz, HuffPost, Mother Jones, and The GroundTruth Project, among others. Justine was born in Manila, immigrated to Los Angeles as a child, and is now based in New York City. 

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