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Author Archives: Bud Ward

Bud Ward was editor of Yale Climate Connections from 2007-2022. He started his environmental journalism career in 1974. He later served as assistant director of the U.S. Congress's National Commission on Air Quality, before founding The Environmental Forum magazine in 1982. In 1988 he established Environment Writer for journalists covering natural resources and environmental issues.

A co-founder of the Society of Environmental Journalists in 1989, he served as a frequent environmental analyst for NPR’s "All Things Considered" and "Morning Edition," and he founded and managed the foundation-funded Central European Environmental Journalism Program.

An advisory editor for the Oxford University Second Edition of Encyclopedia of Climate and Weather (2007), and an adviser in 2007/2008 to the United Nations Development Program, he administered the jury for the Grantham Prize for Excellence in Reporting on the Environment throughout the six-year history of that prize. George Mason University Center for Climate Change Communications in 2009 named him its "Climate Change Communicator of the Year."

An elected fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), he is a member of SEJ and of the American Geophysical Union (AGU) and the American Meteorological Society (AMS). He earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Penn State University.

A calendar planner reading October 2007 on the left page and January 2023 on the right. January 2023 says "retired."
Posted inFeature Article

Thank you for 15 years as Yale Climate Connections editor

Avatar photo by Bud Ward December 18, 2022December 17, 2022

An invigorating stint during a time of great climate progress and of growing concerns…with far more still needing to be done well and done quickly.

A composite image with a book cover on the left and an image of the author - a man in a hat and glasses - on the right.
Posted inInterview

Fictional ‘Two Degrees’ aims to engage 8 to 14 year olds on climate

Avatar photo by Bud Ward December 5, 2022December 2, 2022
Biden signing IRA bill
Posted inCommentary

Ponder the miracle of a U.S. climate law

Avatar photo by Bud Ward August 16, 2022
Video screenshot
Posted inCommunicating Climate

An extreme weather/climate change communications ‘masterclass’

Avatar photo by Bud Ward August 4, 2022August 4, 2022
We the people
Posted inCommentary

Democracy and climate change

Avatar photo by Bud Ward July 7, 2022July 5, 2022
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Posted inPolicy & Politics

Does Supreme Court decision doom power plant rulemakings?

Avatar photo by Bud Ward June 30, 2022June 30, 2022
Rules have changed
Posted inPolicy & Politics

Why a tool for reversing Trump era rules is seldom used

Avatar photo by Lexi Smith and Bud Ward May 5, 2022May 3, 2022
Carla Ramsdell
Posted inArts & Culture

Food physicist offers Earth Day cooking tips

Avatar photo by Bud Ward April 21, 2022April 21, 2022
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Posted inCommentary

Countless metaphors capture the mood of COP26 in Glasgow

Avatar photo by Bud Ward November 5, 2021November 14, 2022
Book cover and Devi Lockwood
Posted inInterview

Q&A with author of ‘1,001 Voices on Climate Change’

Avatar photo by Bud Ward August 20, 2021November 14, 2022
Andrew White holds lobsters with the ocean behind him.
Posted inOn the Road

A climate-change-inspired video road-trip across the U.S.

Avatar photo by Bud Ward May 31, 2021November 14, 2022
Yellow kelp in a blue sea.
Posted inSpecies & Ecosystems

Marine photographer captures haunting images of California’s beautiful, but vanishing, kelp forests

Avatar photo by Bud Ward May 25, 2021November 14, 2022

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