Zahra Hirji is a climate reporter at Bloomberg Green. Previously, Zahra was a senior science reporter at BuzzFeed News and a 2018 Ida B. Wells Fellow at Type Investigations, where she reported on worker safety and discrimination in the oil and gas industry. Prior to her work at BuzzFeed, Zahra was a staff reporter at Inside Climate News, where she was part of the reporting team that won the 2015 Society of Environmental Journalists’ Kevin Carmody Award for a series on the dangers of air pollution from fracking. Her bylines can also be found in Discovery News and EARTH Magazine. Zahra graduated from the GPSW in 2013.

Thesis: Living in the Shadow of Mauna Loa

Recent Publications Include:

• Severe Flight Turbulence Is a Growing Threat in a Warming World
• Why It’s So Hard to Track the Fashion Industry’s Emissions
• Amazon, BP Counter Push to Repeal Washington Climate Law
• Many Environmentalists Don’t Vote. This Group Wants to Change That
• The Texas Wildfire Is So Big, You Can See It From Space