Caitlin Looby

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Editor and Writer, Freelance
Great Lakes Reporter, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

Milwaukee, Saint Paul

Environment, Science, U.S.

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Covers: Environment, climate change, energy, agriculture, conservation tech, tropics

Great Lakes reporter @journalsentinel via @Report4America || Climate & soil scientist || Story tips: clooby@gannett.com || she/her

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As Gulf Coast dolphin strandings rise, scientists see a warning of greater ecological strains

As temperatures rise and New Orleanians head to Gulf Coast beaches, they could be greeted by an unsettling si…

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Nutria bounty (yes, the nutria bounty) in Louisiana rises after 'uptake in damage'

Louisiana's most infamous semi-aquatic rodent - with webbed toes and Cheetos-colored buck teeth - now has a h…

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A global view from a mountain town: how conservation became ingrained in Monteverde

Sitting in a cloud forest on top of the Cordillera de Tilarán, the mountaintop town of Monteverde, Costa Rica…

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Empowering communities fighting new mines: an interview with filmmaker Jessie Landerman

It is no secret that mining destroys environments and communities throughout the world. But, beneath the surf…

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Reef Market Economy: Energetics key to keeping fish in the sea and the store

Food chains are typically represented as trophic pyramids. These pyramids are made up of various trophic leve…

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Murky future for freshwater fish in the Amazon floodplains

Such changes are not only ecologically significant: fish are an important source of protein for people residi…

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A Christmas Miracle? Perhaps someday

Islands possess many unique gifts from evolution. Their isolation from the mainland give them an identity all…

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Discovering the Congo carbon sink

"If the peat was to somehow be drained and burned, then the release of the carbon into the atmosphere would b…

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The Planet Can't Stand This Presidency: Cloud forests

I was sitting on the patio of the Cafe Caburé looking across a dirt road into the densely forested Bajo del T…

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