Since 2002, at least 65 #farmworkers have died from heat-related illnesses, according to our analysis of #OSHA data. The median fine? $4,000. More from Ignacio Calderón bit.ly/2ZbtUcJ

Does weather seem more extreme these days? That’s because it is. A team of USA TODAY reporters analyzed 126 years of federal climate data looking for patterns and reasons why this is happening. bit.ly/31hBOme

Fertilizer runoff, one of the more insidious impacts of climate change, spurs toxic algae growth downstream. bit.ly/32BDIyv

Pleased to see our story on #fertilizer runoff and the poisoning of #waterways by Ignacio Calderón on the front page of USA TODAY! If you miss it there you can read it on our website as well.

Here’s last night’s story about working conditions on farms. And, just for the record, John Oliver and Jamie Oliver are two different people. We’re talking about food this week, so just wanted to make it clear. youtu.be/41vETgarh_8

After watching David Attenborough's documentaries a million times, I made my own animated short using the text-to-image AI model Stable Diffusion. Happy Earth Day 🌎

About two years ago, I got my first byline on the front page of USA TODAY for a water quality story. Never thought this would happen, but now, I got my first byline... for a peer-reviewed scientific article on the same topic! doi.org/10.1088/1748-9… via IOP Environment

We compiled reports on hundreds of water transfers from recent years to create our dataset. Here's my analysis for Coloradoan showing how water ownership in northeast CO is going from farms to municipalities and water districts: coloradoan.com/story/news/202…

One of the perks of being a journalist: I got to take a helicopter ride to see how pilots train for wildfires in Colorado. coloradoan.com/story/news/202…

Inspired by Sean Greene's incredible data viz for Los Angeles Times showing the history of California's snowpack, I plotted how the past decade for the South Platte River Basin in Colorado looks like: coloradoan.com/story/news/202…

In Colorado, 4 of the 5 largest wildfires happened since 2018. A combination of climate change, historic over-suppression, and people moving into fire-prone areas are making this risk harder to manage: coloradoan.com/story/news/202…

This one's special to me. I followed scientists studying a bird that nests in Colorado and then migrates to the Amazon rainforest. Black swifts do this annual trip flying for 6-8 months nonstop, visiting my home country and coming back to my current home. coloradoan.com/story/news/202…

Arizona lawmakers proposed a bill that would become the most restrictive law limiting wind power development in the US. Joan Meiners, Ph.D. 🐝🚴‍♀️ and I mapped this and found that if the bill passes, 90% of Arizona's land would be off-limits to wind projects. usatoday.com/story/news/loc…