Caleigh Wells

Caleigh Wells

Host, TADCP, and Climate Reporter

Contact: caleigh.wells@kcrw.org | Website

Caleigh Wells covers the environment, climate, and public health as KCRW’s Healthy Communities Reporter. Since coming to KCRW in 2019, she has covered wildfire, drought, climate legislation, and environmental health and climate anxiety. Her work regularly appears on NPR and on Marketplace. She reported with The California Newsroom on an investigation into the US Forest Service’s fire mitigation work that won a national Murrow award this year. She was a fellow this year in the Solution Journalism Network’s first climate cohort, and was selected to serve on NPR’s high impact climate collaborative. She has spent her career covering climate change for public media, first interning for ideastream in Cleveland and later coming to KCRW from its crosstown rival, LAist.

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Ten billion dollars doesn’t go far when it comes to adapting to climate change, but the state has a lot of projects planned, should this bond measure pass.

Prop 4: Here’s what’s in California’s $10B climate bond measure

Ten billion dollars doesn’t go far when it comes to adapting to climate change, but the state has a lot of projects planned, should this bond measure pass.

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Our current recycling system isn’t set up to recycle textiles. But a new CA law gives clothing brands a deadline to figure out how to do it.

Clothing brands must recycle or reuse: New CA law

Our current recycling system isn’t set up to recycle textiles. But a new CA law gives clothing brands a deadline to figure out how to do it.

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As the average age of American Catholic nuns and sisters crests 80, one local order spends their remaining years ensuring their legacy survives.

US Catholic sisters are dying out. ‘We knew this was coming’

As the average age of American Catholic nuns and sisters crests 80, one local order spends their remaining years ensuring their legacy survives.

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