Letters from the field: reporting on climate from the frontlines
Oct 17, 2025
Introduction
For five years, journalist Noah Keller has chased the story of our planet’s decline — from the Arctic to the Amazon, from drought to flood. But what he found wasn’t just destruction. It was endurance.
Witnessing collapse
In Greenland, he watched ice sheets crack like thunder. In Mozambique, he saw homes vanish under rising water. “You don’t just observe it,” he wrote once. “You feel it under your skin.” He described the smell of burnt earth after wildfires and the silence that follows when everything living is gone.
Finding resilience
But in each place, he found hope. Farmers in Kenya designing water systems from scrap metal. Fishermen in Indonesia rebuilding coral gardens. Children turning plastic waste into art. The story, he realized, wasn’t just about the planet dying — it was about people learning to adapt.
The story comes home
When his own city flooded in 2024, Noah stood waist-deep in water where he once walked to work. That’s when his reporting turned personal. “The field isn’t somewhere else,” he wrote in his next dispatch. “It’s everywhere.”
