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Christopher Ingraham

Christopher Ingraham

Christopher Ingraham covers greater Minnesota for the Minnesota Reformer and reports on data-driven stories across the state. He's the author of the book "If You Lived Here You'd Be Home By Now," about his family's journey from the Baltimore suburbs to rural northwest Minnesota. He was previously a data reporter for the Washington Post.

Five charts on the changing Midwestern climate

By: - November 21, 2023

The just-released Fifth National Climate Assessment contains some grim predictions about the future climate trajectory of the Midwest and the country as a whole. Temperatures are warming, environments are degrading, and the world we once knew is evolving into something very different. The report also contains a lot of charts, and in many cases those […]

Federal report forecasts the Midwest’s climate future

By: - November 20, 2023

More ticks. More mosquitos. Less snowmobiling and ice fishing. Those are just a few of the climate impacts facing Midwestern states in the coming decades, according to the just-released Fifth National Climate Assessment. The massive, congressionally-mandated report is released roughly every five years in an attempt to track how climate change is affecting the United […]