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The world’s northernmost alt-weekly moves south
For nearly thirteen years, Mark Sabbatini has served as the sole publisher, editor, and reporter of IcePeople, a paper covering Svalbard, a remote Norwegian archipelago in the High Arctic, for a global audience. Earlier in his career, Sabbatini worked at newspapers including the Los Angeles Times and the Antarctic Sun. In 2008, he visited Svalbard […]
The fall of Trump propels the climate story into a decisive new era
Donald Trump's defeat in the US presidential election is the biggest development in the climate story in years, if only because it means that the story might not have a hellish ending after all.
Good grief
In college, my professors taught me that journalism played an essential role in democracy by helping voters make informed decisions. Reporting meant making an impact. So when I was job-hunting and I saw an open position on the climate beat, it seemed like an ideal opportunity to make a difference.
In the Air
China’s environmental journalists must withstand an insidious system that is at once supportive and oppressive
Silence of the climate watchdogs
The focus on the coronavirus has distracted the press from its watchdog function on other matters of public importance, including the climate crisis.
For many reporters covering climate, population remains the elephant in the room
Why aren't more journalists talking about human population in proportion to the climate impact that it can have?
A new commitment to covering the climate story
“Can we tell the story so people get it?" That's the mission TV newsman Bill Moyers urged at the launch of Covering Climate Now, a project aimed at breaking the climate silence that has long prevailed within too much of the news media.