Zahra Hirji is a climate reporter at Bloomberg Green. Previously, she was a senior science reporter at BuzzFeed News and staff writer at Inside Climate News, where she covered natural gas drilling, fossil fuel divestment, renewable energy policy, and climate science, among other issues. Her writing has been featured in the Brown Alumni Magazine, Wired‘s Eruptions blog, Discovery News, and EARTH magazine, among other publications. She also has a degree in geology from Brown University.

Thesis: Living in the Shadow of Mauna Loa

Recent Publications Include:

• The 1.5C Climate Goal Is Dead. Why Is COP29 Still Talking About It?
• Asheville’s Dirty Water Warns of Climate Risk to Aging US Infrastructure
• Brazil’s Environment Minister Wants to Reset the Carbon Credit Debate
• Severe Flight Turbulence Is a Growing Threat in a Warming World
• Why It’s So Hard to Track the Fashion Industry’s Emissions