Caleigh Wells
KCRW Host & ReporterCaleigh Wells is a reporter and producer from Los Angeles. She co-hosted KCRW’s Wasted series, and has recently covered the local 2020 elections, the rollout of COVID vaccines and California’s wildfires. When she’s not reporting, she’s filling in for her colleagues on Morning Edition, All Things Considered, Press Play and Greater LA. She regularly reports on environmental issues and climate change. Before coming to KCRW, she reported and produced for the other NPR member station across town, KPCC.
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Climate change is making severe weather more common — like the heavy rain that caused major flooding and mudslides this week in LA. Residents in one community talk about whether it's time to leave.
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A school composting program in Los Angeles helps teach students how to take climate action through its composting program. -
As the world focuses on how to address climate change, a school in Los Angeles offers a way to get young people involved in addressing the issue.
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As the world focuses on how to address climate change, a school in Los Angeles offers a way to getyoung people involved in addressing the issue.
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Too Good To Go works with businesses to sell leftovers at a reduced price. This helps prevent food waste from ending up in landfills, where it decomposes and produces a potent planet-warming gas. -
In Southern California, a massive wildfire is burning through the Mojave Desert Preserve — threatening endangered Joshua trees. The cause of the York Fire is under investigation.
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A new project in Los Angeles is trying to cool the city by painting streets with a reflective coating to bounce away heat from the sun. Other cities like Phoenix are undertaking similar efforts.
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A new project in L.A. is trying to make the city cooler by painting streets with a reflective coating to bounce away heat from the sun. Other cities like Phoenix are undertaking similar efforts.
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California lawmakers have agreed to create a conservation plan to help protect the western Joshua tree, which faces extinction due to climate change. (Story aired on ATC on July 5, 2023.)
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California lawmakers have agreed to create a conservation plan and a fund to help protect the western Joshua Tree, which faces extinction due to climate change.
