Journalist Arielle Duhaime-Ross finds common ground with an Alaskan community struggling with the effects of climate change.

Arielle Duhaime-Ross is the environment and climate correspondent for VICE News Tonight — the Emmy award-winning nightly newscast from VICE Media and HBO. Prior to joining VICE, she was a science reporter at The Verge, where she was granted the 2015 Herb Lampert Science in Society Emerging Journalist award for her coverage of a radical 1950s scientist who suggested memory could be stored outside the brain. Duhaime-Ross has previously written for Scientific American, Nature Medicine, The Atlantic, and Quartz. Originally from Canada, she has a bachelor's in zoology and a master’s in science, health, and environmental reporting.

This story originally aired on The Story Collider's podcast on June 22, 2018, in an episode titled "Unfamiliar Territory: Stories about journey to new places." Find the transcript and other information here: https://www.storycollider.org/stories/2018/6/19/unfamiliar-territory-stories-about-journeys-to-new-places

Arielle Duhaime-Ross: Finding Common Ground

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