Carolyn Beeler

Environment Reporter

Carolyn Beeler covers the environment for The World, where she focuses on stories about people and places impacted by climate change. She has reported from all seven continents and won national and regional awards for her breaking news and in-depth feature reporting. Before joining The World, she helped pilot the weekly health and science show The Pulse at WHYY in Philadelphia, and reported from Berlin for a year as a Robert Bosch Foundation fellow. She studied journalism at Northwestern University and got her start in radio as a Kroc fellow at NPR.

Recent Stories

Climate Change

Hear these voices from the front lines of climate change

PRI's The World

September 19, 2018

What is it like to face climate change where you live? The World spoke to people from all over the globe at the recent Global Climate Action Summit in San Francisco to learn how climate change was impacting them, and what they were doing about it.

Environment

California emerges as a leader at climate summit

PRI's The World

September 14, 2018

The biggest test of how much a state governor can really lead on a global problem like climate change came this week as Gov. Jerry Brown convened the Global Climate Action Summit in San Francisco. California has provided leadership amid the vacuum left when the US federal government reversed course on climate policy. But there are things a state just can’t do.

Global Nation Education

A year after Maria, Puerto Rican college students find home – on the island and off

PRI's The World

September 07, 2018

Rosamari Palerm transferred to a school in Miami last fall after her school shut down in the wake of Hurricane Maria. She’s returned home to San Juan, but some of her classmates have stayed, making new homes in Miami.

Business, Economics and Jobs

In Puerto Rico's coffee country, 'We have to motivate the farmers to come to the soil again'

PRI's The World

August 31, 2018

More than 260 schools in Puerto Rico closed this summer due to low enrollment after Maria. A group of women want to transform one in western Puerto Rico into an educational center to revive the region’s coffee industry.

Environment

Some of the last Puerto Ricans without power got it today. Now, work to build a stronger grid must begin.

PRI's The World

August 24, 2018

After 11 months, power is virtually fully restored in Puerto Rico. But the grid is still fragile, and there’s no estimate of when an overhaul to make it stronger will begin.