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Emmett FitzGerald

Emmett Fitzgerald is a reporter and producer based in the Bay Area. He’s currently working for Living on Earth, and focuses on the relationship between humans and the natural world. Fitzgerald has reported on threats to wild salmon in southeast Alaska, a sinkhole disaster in Louisiana and the impacts of light pollution in National Parks.In 2015 he traveled to Paris to cover the UN climate change conference, and thinks a lot about how to talk about climate change in ways people can engage with. His favorite saxophone is the tenor saxophone. 
salt ponds
Environment
Bay Area voters are being asked to pay more taxes to rebuild lost wetlands
Port of Miami
Environment
A Miami port dredging project may have damaged the city’s offshore coral reef
Crystal Cruises’ new luxury vessel
Environment
The Arctic is opening for business this summer when a cruise ship plies the Northwest Passage
Beehives and almond trees
Environment
California’s almond farmers depend on beekeepers — and billions of bees
South Window
Environment
Why we all should be worried that we don’t get enough darkness in our lives
a bat
Environment
On the farm, new allies to save America’s endangered bats
A Common Murre in Iceland.
Environment
Along the Pacific Coast, a seabird is starving — and we don’t know why
Dean Wilson in a swamp
Environment
These people are practically the last line of defense for Louisiana’s endangered cypress swamps
A vaquita swims in its natural habitat, somewhere in the northern part of the Gulf of California.
Science
A Mexican porpoise is facing extinction — almost by accident
Alaskan salmon in Bristol Bay, Alaska
Environment
Will Canada’s new mines hurt Alaska’s salmon?
Illuminated Fishing Nets Prevent Bycatch
Alaskan River Riches: A River Town in Transition
Alaskan River Riches At Risk From Mining In Canada
Alaskan River Riches: Fly-fishing and Salmon Science
The Sound Ring
The Sound Ring
Peak Bagging
Hottest June Ever
Hottest June Ever
Navy Rescuers Claim Radiation Sickness
Peak Bagging
Anti-Carbon Pollution Rally
Greenland Melt Music
Bayou Community Struggles with Sinkhole
Joe’s Pond Ice Out Contest
Greenland Melt Music