Amanda Paulson is a former staff writer for the Monitor (from 2000 to 2020), writing for national news and covering the Midwest and, since 2011, the Rocky Mountain region. She has reported on education reform, immigration, agriculture, and natural disasters, including Hurricane Katrina, the Boulder floods, wildfires, and the Sago Mine disaster. Her environmental reporting has included topics ranging from mountain-top mining in West Virginia and gas drilling in Western Colorado to water rights, pine-bark beetles, and sage grouse. She recently spent a year as a fellow at the Scripps Center for Environmental Journalism in Boulder.
Stories by Amanda Paulson
- As vaccines roll out, states face difficult questions over access
- Plant, restore soil, repeat. Could nature help curb climate change?
- How Earth Day united a nation in crisis and sparked a global movement
- Going uphill: More skiers take the sport back to its roots
- Cave diving, microbes, and slime: A love story
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