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Author Archives: Nathan Halverson
Senior Reporter and Producer, TV and Documentaries
Nathan Halverson (he/him) is an Emmy Award-winning producer for Reveal, covering business and finance with a current emphasis on the global food system. Before joining Reveal, Halverson worked on projects for FRONTLINE, the Investigative Reporting Program at the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism and PBS NewsHour. He was the principal reporter on Reveal's story about the Chinese government’s involvement in the takeover of America’s largest pork company, Smithfield Foods Inc. He was awarded a 2014 McGraw Fellowship by the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism, and he received a bachelor's degree in economics from the University of Minnesota. He has won a New York Times Chairman’s Award and has received reporting honors from the Society of American Business Editors and Writers, California Newspaper Publishers Association, San Francisco Peninsula Press Club and Associated Press News Executives Council. Halverson is based in Reveal’s Emeryville, California, office.
How the lack of water led to violence from Mexico to Syria
A conflict with Mennonites in Mexico is the latest example of a world grappling with depleting water sources and increasingly violent conflicts erupting where water shortages have taken hold.
California needs aquifers under its cities, study says
The Union of Concerned Scientists has concluded that the state needs to build underground water storage systems beneath cities to capture storm runoff, which can be used later during drought years.
Debate spreads about Saudi dairy drilling wells in arid Arizona
Arizonans are debating what actions to take after a Reveal investigation showed the state’s limited aquifers are being drained to grow and ship crops overseas.
Posted inEnvironment, The Secrets of the Drought
California sank, and now it’s set to flood
If California gets hit by a strong El Niño with heavy snow and rain, sinking levees in the Central Valley are more likely to fail and send floodwaters racing across farms, highways and neighborhoods.
Posted inEnvironment
Growing hay a world away
Saudi Arabia’s largest dairy company, Almarai, bought 9,600 acres of land in a desert in the American Southwest. The company then converted it into hay fields to feed cows back home.
Posted inEnvironment, The Secrets of the Drought
California homes are sinking and cracking, thanks to the drought
California’s historic sinking is starting to hit home – literally. In the El Nido region, homes are beginning to sink and crack.
Posted inEnvironment, The Secrets of the Drought
9 sobering facts about California’s groundwater problem
For nearly a century, Californians have drained an incredible amount of water from the ground to grow crops and water landscaping. But the practice is not sustainable, and the water has not returned.
Posted inEnvironment, The Secrets of the Drought
California’s sinking terrain is costly – just ask San Luis Obispo
Not too long ago in that idyllic Central Coast city, an overdependence on groundwater became a destructive and expensive problem that today could serve as a warning to cities and counties throughout the state.
Posted inEnvironment, The Secrets of the Drought
California is sinking, and it’s getting worse
While the state’s drought-induced sinking is well known, new details highlight just how severe it has become and how little the government has done to