Articles by Blanca Begert
Blanca Begert is the News Fellow at Grist. She was previously an editor and producer for environmental content at KCET / PBS SoCal.
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![Yangtze River drought]()
![Yangtze River drought]()
As drought dries up the Yangtze river, China loses hydropower
No rain and a 70-day heat wave spur crop failures, power cuts, and dangerously-low reservoirs across parts of China.
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![ice breaking into small pieces and scattering across the ocean]()
![ice breaking into small pieces and scattering across the ocean]()
The Arctic is heating up four times faster than the rest of the planet
That's much quicker than climate models predicted.
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![flooding disease climate change]()
![flooding disease climate change]()
Study: Climate change is making 58% of infectious diseases worse
From West Nile to asthma, climate change is aggravating illnesses and hindering our ability to fight them.
