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Declan Faust

Senior Correspondent · Yellowknife & Berlin

Declan Faust reports from the Arctic and Northern Europe on climate systems, infrastructure, and geopolitical risk. His field investigations have appeared in Orion, The Believer, and Granta. Based between Yellowknife and Berlin, Faust spent a decade documenting permafrost thaw and industrial adaptation in the High North. He won the Sandburg Award for environmental reporting in 2023. His forthcoming book examines how the North is remaking itself in response to planetary change.

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Sixty Days on the Ice Road

Every winter, truckers haul a year of supplies across frozen lakes to Arctic mines. The season keeps getting shorter, and the ice keeps getting harder to trust.

Declan Faust · June 7, 2026 · 8 min read
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The Town That Sued the Sky

When a hailstorm flattened their orchards, the farmers of Cañón Verde blamed the cloud-seeding planes overhead. Then they went to court, in a case that could rewrite who owns the weather.

Declan Faust · May 3, 2026 · 8 min read