Data reporter on the rapid-response investigative team
Education: University of Texas, BA in government and philosophy
Andrew Ba Tran is an investigative data reporter. Before the Post, he worked with data at The Connecticut Mirror and The Boston Globe. He has worked in newsrooms at the Virginian-Pilot and the South Florida Sun-Sentinel. He’s a Metpro Fellow, a Chips Quinn Scholar and a graduate of the University of Texas.
Residents in wealthy enclaves from Beverly Hills to suburbs of Austin to Florida beach communities sent millions of dollars to support trucker convoys that occupied the Canadian capital and shut down commerce, according to a Washington Post analysis of leaked fundraising data.
Without dramatic action to curb carbon emissions and adapt to unavoidable change, experts say the damage wrought by rising temperatures will only get worse.
Nearly one in three Americans lives in a county hit by a weather disaster in the last three months, according to a Washington Post analysis, and almost two-thirds percent live in places that experienced a multi-day heat wave during that same period.