Tik Root

Tik Root

Senior staff writer at Grist

Tik Root covers climate solutions and economics at Grist. He started his career as a freelance journalist in Yemen, and has since covered everything from Al Qaeda to the Olympics for outlets such as National Geographic, The New York Times, and The Atlantic, among others. He previously worked at The Washington Post and Scripps News. Tik lives in Vermont with his wife and son.

Latest articles by Tik Root

A helicopter drops water over a raging wildfire.

Western states face above-normal wildfire threats this summer. New maps reveal which areas are most at risk.

By Tik Root, Grist published

Amid drought and heat waves, April's national wildfire forecast shows that nearly the entire Western U.S. will face an above-normal risk of wildfires at some point in the next four months.

Climate change