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Daniel Cusick is a Minnesota-based environmental journalist.
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Daniel Cusick is a nationally recognized journalist with more than 25 years experience writing about how people, communities and elected officials respond to environmental change. His stories draw upon primary research, field reporting and vibrant writing to engage readers through fact-based storytelling.

Daniel’s work has appeared in POLITICO, E&E News, ScientificAmerican.com, Energy News Network,  Environmental Health News, Coastal News Today and other publications. It has also been cited by dozens of media outlets and book authors, nonprofit organizations, researchers, lawmakers, think tanks, industry and trade groups, and others.

Based in Minneapolis-St. Paul, Daniel has reported stories from across the United States and in East Africa. Originally from Alabama, he has lived in Minnesota since 2010. He previously worked in Washington, D.C., Baltimore, Atlanta, and Mobile, Alabama.

Featured Stories
07/30/2024 06:22 AM EDT
Why a century-old beach building program could last ‘forever’
The cost of constantly rebuilding beaches is rising because of climate change. But it’s unlikely that projects dating back to the 1970s or later will ever end.
05/29/2019 07:05 AM EDT
40 homes and 17 floods. Now the neighborhood is moving
POINTE COUPEE PARISH, La. — Floods keep inundating a South Louisiana neighborhood. The state is paying to relocate dozens of low-income residents to nearby higher ground.
12/03/2025 01:09 PM EST
Tensions flare over ‘most important fish’ in the ocean
Sportfishing and environmental groups say tougher regulations are urgently needed for commercial catch of menhaden, a small species crucial to ecosystems along the Atlantic Ocean and Gulf Coast.
10/09/2020 07:02 AM EDT
Hurricane Delta aims for ‘devil’s
playground’
CAMERON, La. – Facing back-to-back hurricanes, residents of this storm-battered hamlet may be among the unlukiest people in America.
01/29/2020 06:53 AM EST
Ice fishing, a Minn. tradition, cracks as winters warm
BEMIDJI, Minn. — Subzero temperatures are money in the bank for this small city 100 miles from the Canadian border. But its favorite winter pastime — ice fishing — is on thin ice.
08/18/2021 07:31 AM EDT

Northern forest burns as boreal regions warm

MINNEAPOLIS — A month ago, it was smoke. Now it’s fire. The hellish summer that has scorched more than 4 million acres west of the Rocky Mountains and sent smoke plumes drifting across the continent is no longer a Western phenomenon. 

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