Articles by Maddie Oatman
Maddie Oatman is the research editor at Mother Jones. She's also written for Outside, the Bay Citizen, and the Rumpus, and is a 2013 Middlebury Fellow in Environmental Journalism.
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How air conditioning is actually making us hotter
More emissions means more global warming, which means more appetite for cooling.
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Bark beetles are killing forests — but they might be saving them, too
They gobble up trees and send politicians into a frenzy. But do the bugs know more about climate change than we do?
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Will the USDA weaken dietary guidelines to please the meat industry?
The Obama administration might recommend eating fewer animal-based foods to help the environment -- and Big Meat is flipping out.
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When spruce beetles attack!
Drought is making it much harder for trees to defend themselves against invading insects, says a new study.
