Carson Vaughan

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A freelance journalist based in Chicago and Nebraska, Carson Vaughan writes frequently about the Great Plains, from the environment to the arts and everything in between. His work has appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times, The Guardian, The Atlantic, Smithsonian and more. His first book, Zoo Nebraska: The Dismantling of An American Dream, was published in April 2019 by Little A.

Reporting for FERN

Rethinking wildfires at the start of a potentially devastating fire season

Carson Vaughan, June 13, 2021

Even in economic downturn, tropical forest losses climb

Carson Vaughan, March 31, 2021

To save humanity, save biodiversity: Q&A with Enric Sala

Carson Vaughan, September 20, 2020

How do climate change, migration and a deadly sheep disease alter our understanding of pandemics?

Carson Vaughan, September 3, 2020

Ensia

As agriculture expands, tropical forest losses soar

Carson Vaughan, June 2, 2020

Ethanol market is ‘disturbing as hell’ to American farmers. And now there’s Covid-19.

Carson Vaughan, March 29, 2020

Enviva, a giant in wood pellets, shifts tree-sourcing policy

Carson Vaughan, June 10, 2019

The Loophole: How American forests fuel the EU’s appetite for ‘green’ energy

Carson Vaughan, April 29, 2019

Weather.com

Uprooting FDR’s ‘Great Wall of Trees’

Carson Vaughan, November 1, 2017

Weather.com