WATER POWER Hydropower expands despite dam removals. Hydropower expands despite dam removals.
ADAPTATION Governments are establishing agencies to address climate change. Governments are establishing agencies to address climate change.
LISTED Some, but not all, loggerhead turtles gain more protection. Some, but not all, loggerhead turtles gain more protection.
SAFETY FIRST As Cuba prepares to drill, United States prepares for possible disasters. As Cuba prepares to drill, United States prepares for possible disasters.
 
 





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Alexandra Duszak is the James R. Soles Fellow at The Center for Public Integrity in Washington, DC, where she reports on a variety of environmental and accountability issues.
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Peter Fimrite is a longtime reporter for the San Francisco Chronicle, where he currently covers the environment, including wildland fire.
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Independent journalist Marvin Hokstam recently relocated to his native Suriname, where he writes for Reuters Alertnet while also running DevSur, the only English language medium in the country.
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Chris Landers is a freelance writer who writes for National Geographic News, The Christian Science Monitor, and other newspapers and magazines.
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Nick Miroff is Washington Post correspondent covering Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean. He is also a contributor to National Public Radio and GlobalPost.
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Maureen Nandini Mitra is managing editor of Earth Island Journal.
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Kirk Moore has been a reporter for the Asbury Park Press since 1983, with beats including marine and environmental issues.
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Cassandra Profita runs the environmental news blog Ecotrope for Oregon Public Broadcasting.
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Julia Pyper is a reporter for E&E Publishing’s ClimateWire.
 





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Science journalist Jill U. Adams is a regular contributor to the Los Angeles Times.
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Randal Archibold is The New York Times bureau chief for Mexico, Central America, and the Caribbean.
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Ari Auber writes for the Texas Tribune.
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Jule Banville is the editor of NewWest.Net, a website covering the news and culture of the Rocky Mountain West.
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Tom Bearden is a correspondent for the PBS NewsHour. He reports on commercial aviation, the environment, immigration, the military, technology, science, and natural disasters.
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Sharon Begley is a contributing writer at Newsweek, where she was the science editor and science columnist until April 2011.
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Matthew Berger is a freelance journalist covering environment and energy issues from Washington for Reuters and Inter Press Service.
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Kent Bernhard Jr. is the news editor at Portfolio.com.
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David Biello is associate editor for Scientific American. He covers energy and the environment.
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Winifred Bird is a freelance journalist living in Nagano, Japan. She writes for Japan Times, Science, Dwell, and Environmental Health Perspectives and is a 2011 fellow at Vermont Law School.
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Richard Black leads environment news coverage on the BBC News website. Previously he produced and presented science and environment programs for BBC World Service. (blog)
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Richard Blackwell is a reporter at The Globe and Mail, Canada's national newspaper.
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Deborah Blum is a Pulitzer Prize–winning science writer, a professor of journalism at the University of Wisconsin, and the author of five books, including The Poisoner's Handbook.
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Valerie J. Brown, based in Oregon, has been covering the nexus of environment and health for nearly 20 years.
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Rhett Butler is the founder of Mongabay.com, an environmental news website that frequently covers forest issues.
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Eve Byron is the special projects editor at the Independent Record in Helena, Montana. She has followed the wolf reintroduction and recovery for more than a decade.
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Jennifer Carpenter is science reporter and broadcaster who holds the Ivan Noble Fellowship at the BBC.
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Cally Carswell is the assistant editor of High Country News.
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Merritt Clifton is editor-in-chief for Animal People, an independent newspaper providing investigative coverage of animal protection issues.
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Richard Collins has been editor of leading Australian environment business magazine WME for 11 years, covering issues from waste management to green marketing, cleaner production to corporate sustainability.
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Marla Cone is the author of Silent Snow: The Slow Poisoning of the Arctic and the editor-in-chief of Environmental Health News.
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Clifford Coonan is the China correspondent for The Irish Times and The Independent. Clifford is based in Beijing, where he writes on all areas of political, social, and economic life.
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Daniel Cressey is a news reporter for Nature.
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Matthew Daly is a reporter for the Associated Press who covers environment and energy issues from Washington, D.C.
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Osha Gray Davidson writes about energy and the environment for OnEarth. He's also publisher/editor of the syndicated blog, The Phoenix Sun.
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John Dillon covers environmental and energy issues for Vermont Public Radio.
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Larry Dreiling is the senior field reporter for High Plains Journal.
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Michael Dresser has worked as an editor and reporter at the Baltimore Sun for 35 years. Since 2004 he has covered the Maryland transportation beat.
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Eric Durban is an agriculture reporter for Harvest Public Media, a public media reporting collaborative in the Midwest.
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Rob Edwards is the environment editor of the Sunday Herald in Scotland and contributes to The Guardian in London.
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Juliet Eilperin is The Washington Post's national environmental reporter and the author of the book, "Demon Fish: Travels Through the Hidden World of Sharks."
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Barry Estabrook’s blog is Politics of the Plate and his book is Tomatoland: How Modern Industrial Agriculture Destroyed Our Most Alluring Fruit.
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Stephan Faris is a magazine writer and the author of Forecast. His articles have appeared in The Atlantic, Time, Fortune, and The New York Times Magazine. You can see his work here.
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Adam Federman is a 2010 Middlebury Fellow in environmental journalism and writes for The Nation, Columbia Journalism Review, Gastronomica, Earth Island Journal, and other publications.
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Douglas Fischer is editor of The Daily Climate, a nonprofit news service covering climate change.
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Charles Fishman is the author of The Big Thirst: The Secret Life and Turbulent Future of Water.
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Freelance journalist Barbara Fraser has lived in Peru for more than 20 years and specializes in environmental, public health, and social issues.
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Andrew Freedman is managing editor of online content for Climate Central.
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Nancy Gaarder is a reporter and city editor at the Omaha World-Herald.
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Kate Galbraith reports on energy and environment for the Austin-based Texas Tribune. She also writes for The New York Times.
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Jane George has been covering the circumpolar regions for more than 20 years, the last 15 spent with the Nunavut-based Nunatsiaq News newspaper, which also operates a daily news service, nunatsiaqonline.ca.
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Erica Gies is the editor-in-chief of This Week in Earth and an independent journalist who covers the environment for The New York Times, Forbes.com, International Herald Tribune, Wired News, and other outlets.
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Suzanne Goldenberg has won several awards for her work in the Middle East. She has now given up war to report on the environment for The Guardian.
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Darren Goode is a reporter at POLITICO Pro with more than a decade of experience on energy and environmental issues.
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Ronnie Greene is senior editor of iWatch News, at the Center for Public Integrity. He joined iWatch after serving as investigations and government editor for The Miami Herald.
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Nathanial Gronewold heads the New York City bureau of Environment & Energy Publishing, covering energy and the envionment for Greenwire, ClimateWire, and E&E NewsPM.
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Elizabeth Grossman's work appears in Scientific American, Yale e360, TheAtlantic.com, the Washington Post, The Nation, Mother Jones, Salon, and other publications.
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Georgina Gustin covers agriculture and food policy for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
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Sharon Guynup is a freelance writer who covers the environment and environmental health for Scientific American, NationalGeographic.com, Smithsonian, Audubon, The Boston Globe, and other publications.
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Jeremy Hance is a senior reporter for Mongabay.com. He covers the environment.
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Amy Harder is an energy and environment reporter for National Journal
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Steve Hargreaves is a senior writer at CNNMoney, where he covers energy and environmental issues.
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Fiona Harvey is the Guardian's environment correspondent.
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Christine Haughney is a New York Times Metro Reporter who writes about transportation.
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Tom Henry is an environmental writer/columnist at the Blade in Toledo, Ohio.
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Leo Hickman is a features writer and editor at The Guardian UK.
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Houston-based independent journalist Wendee Holtcamp writes for Miller-McCune, BioScience, Climate Central, and other outlets. (website)
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Jason Hoppin reports for the Santa Cruz Sentinel, where his beats include the environment and fisheries.
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Katie Howell is an energy policy reporter for Greenwire and Environment and Energy Daily in Washington, D.C.
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Lawrence Hurley is a legal reporter in Washington, D.C., reporting for Greenwire.
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Mike Ives is a Hanoi, Vietnam–based reporter whose writing appears in Earth Island Journal, Yale e360, the Los Angeles Times, and other outlets.
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Jeremy P. Jacobs covers toxics and chemicals for Greenwire and Environment and Energy Daily.
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Ed Jahn is a producer at Oregon Field Guide, a program of Oregon Public Broadcasting.
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Christina Jewett is an investigative reporter focusing on health and welfare for California Watch, a program on KQED public radio in San Francisco.
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David Jolly covers European business and finance from Paris for the International Herald Tribune.
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Chris Joyner is a government watchdog reporter for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Joyner is an Atlanta native and has been a newspaper reporter for 15 years.
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Michael Kanellos is editor-in-chief of Greentech Media.
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Melody Kemp is a freelancer who covers international development and labor. She has lived and worked in Asia for more than 23 years.
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Rebecca Kessler is a freelance journalist in Providence, R.I. She writes for Natural History, Conservation, ScienceNOW, Environmental Health Perspectives, and other publications.
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Alex Knapp blogs about the future of science, technology, and how it interfaces with the culture for Forbes.
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Andrew E. Kramer writes for the New York Times.
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Jeremy Kryt is a freelance reporter based in Honduras. His work appears in Earth Island Journal, In These Times, Huffington Post, and Alternet, among others.
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Anthony Kuhn is National Public Radio’s Southeast Asia correspondent, based in Jakarta. From 2005–2010, he was NPR’s China correspondent, based in Beijing.
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Martin LaMonica is a reporter at CNET, where he writes for and manages the Green Tech blog.
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Bill Lascher is a Portland, Ore.-based independent journalist and literary nonfiction writer. His work appears in Portland Monthly, The Bear Deluxe Magazine, High Country News, King5.com and other outlets
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Mike Lee is the environment reporter for the San Diego Union-Tribune.
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Evan Lehmann is a reporter for ClimateWire.
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Mike Lemonick is the senior science writer at Climate Central. He covers science and the environment for Time, Discover, Scientific American, and The Washington Post.
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Jacques Leslie writes about environmental issues for Mother Jones and OnEarth. His 2005 book, Deep Water: The Epic Struggle Over Dams, Displaced People, and the Environment, won the J. Anthony Lukas Work-in-Progress Award.
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Penny Loeb is an investigative reporter at Newsday and U.S. News & World Report. She wrote the book Moving Mountains: How One Woman Won Justice from Big Coaland is producing a movie of the book.
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Abrahm Lustgarten is energy and environment reporter for Pro Publica. He’s writing a book about BP and the disaster in the Gulf of Mexico called Run to Failure.
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Joel Makower, is the executive editor of GreenBiz.com.
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Josephine Marcotty, an environmental reporter for the Minneapolis Star Tribune, writes about the outdoors, wildlife, pollution, and sustainability.
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Adam Marcus is managing editor of Anesthesiology News, co-founder of Retraction Watch, and a freelance contributor to Science, The Economist, and The Christian Science Monitor.
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John Markoff writes for the science section of The New York Times on computing and science.
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Melanie Mason covers money and politics in the Los Angeles Times/Tribune Washington bureau.
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Kathleen Masterson is an agriculture reporter for Harvest Public Media, an NPR reporting project in the Midwest.
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Amy Maxmen is a freelance writer in New York City. She covers medicine, evolution, the environment, and science policy for Nature, The Scientist, and New Scientist.
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Robert McClure is co-founder, principal, and senior environmental correspondent at InvestigateWest, a nonprofit news center that covers the Pacific Northwest.
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Paul Miles is an independent journalist who covers travel and the environment for the Financial Times and The Ecologist.
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Sarah Mirk is a transportation reporter for the Portland Mercury.
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Fen Montaigne is senior editor of Yale Environment 360.
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Lauren Morello is ClimateWire’s lead science reporter.
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Camilla Mortensen is the environment reporter for the Eugene Weekly.
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Clara Moskowitz covers astronomy, spaceflight and skywatching for SPACE.com.
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Jim Motavalli is a contributor to The New York Times, CBS Interactive, NPR's Car Talk and the author of the forthcoming book High Voltage: The Fast Track to Plug in the Auto Industry (Rodale).
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Karimeh Moukaddem is an intern at Mongabay.com and a 2011/2012 Fulbright Scholar to Brazil.
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Tim Murphy is a reporter at Mother Jones magazine in Washington, D.C., and focuses on national politics.
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Andrea Mustain is a science writer and radio reporter. She is a staff writer for the science site OurAmazingPlanet.com.
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Will Nichols is a reporter with BusinessGreen, a U.K.-based news site covering business in the low-carbon economy.
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Michelle Nijhuis is a 2011 Alicia Patterson Foundation fellow.
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Paul J. Nyden has been a Charleston, W. Va., Gazette reporter since 1982. He has won the George Polk Award and awards from the Society of Professional Journalists and Investigative Reporters and Editors.
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Mary Catherine O'Connor is a freelance journalist based in San Francisco who writes about energy, the environment, and outdoor sports.
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Dina O’Meara is an energy reporter for the Calgary Herald.
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Stephanie Paige Ogburn is the online editor at High Country News.
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Erik Olsen is a video journalist who shoots, writes, edits, and narrates video stories for The New York Times.
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Lisa Palmer is a independent journalist and regular contributor to The Yale Forum and other outlets.
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Roger Phillips is the outdoors editor at the Idaho Statesman in Boise.
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Sara Phillips is environment editor for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. She has won several awards for her work, including the 2006 Reuters/IUCN award for excellence in environmental reporting.
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Tom Philpott is the food and agriculture blogger for Mother Jones and cofounder of Maverick Farms in Valle Crucis, N.C.
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Dan Radel is a journalist for the Asbury Park Press. His main beat is the coastal New Jersey fisheries.
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Saqib Rahim is an energy reporter for ClimateWire, where he covers energy innovation, electric cars, transit, green jobs, green buildings, and more.
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Janet Raloff is senior editor of Science News.
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A fellow at the Center for Media & Democracy, Jill Richardson is working on a book about peasant agriculture in the global South.
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Joe Roman is a conservation biologist at the University of Vermont and the author of LISTED: Dispatches from America's Endangered Species Act.
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Elisabeth Rosenthal is an international environment correspondent for The New York Times.
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Elizabeth Royte is the author of Garbage Land: On the Secret Trail of Trash and Bottlemania: How Water Went On Sale and Why We Bought It.
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Josh Rubin is staff reporter at The Toronto Star
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Betsy Z. Russell is the Boise bureau chief for the Spokesman-Review. She covers state government and politics and writes the Eye on Boise blog.
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Darren Samuelsohn is Politico’s senior energy and environment reporter.
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Karen Schaefer is a frreelance journalist and independent public radio producer from Northeast Ohio. Her stories have aired on National Public Radio, the BBC, and the Voice of America.
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Mark Schleifstein is a staff writer at the Times-Picayune in New Orleans.
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Elana Schor is a congressional reporter for Greenwire and Environment & Energy Daily, and has covered Capitol Hill for six years.
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Christian Schwägerl covers environmental, energy and science policy for Der Spiegel from Berlin and has recently published a book on the Anthropocene.
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Ariel Schwartz is an assistant editor at Fast Company.
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Eric Scigliano is author of several books, most recently Michaelangelo's Mountain, and co-author of Flotsametrics. His articles have appeared in Harper's, Discover, New Scientist, and many other publications.
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Kate Sheppard is a reporter in the Washington, DC bureau of Mother Jones magazine.
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Meng Si is managing editor of the Beijng office of China Dialogue, an independent, bilingual environmental news website.
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Craig Simons is a public policy scholar at the Woodrow Wilson Center and an Alicia Patterson fellow. He is writing a book about China's global environmental impacts.
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Jason Smathers is a reporter with the Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism in Madison, Wisc.
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Emily Sohn is a freelance journalist and a contributing writer for Discovery News.
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Lauren Sommer is a radio and multimedia reporter at Quest, a science and environment series at KQED public radio in San Francisco.
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Peter Spotts has worked for the Christian Science Monitor for 34 years and has been its science reporter for nearly 20 years.
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Tiffany Stecker is a reporter for ClimateWire, covering the environment and defense.
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Harvey Stone is the author of an environmental thriller, Melting Down and president of Triple Bottom Line Times. He’s working on a sequel about natural disasters and geoengineering.
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Dawn Stover is a freelance science and environmental writer and a contributing editor at the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists.
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Daniel Strain is an intern with Science magazine's news service in Washington, D.C.
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Doug Struck is associate department chair and Journalist in Residence at Emerson College. He covered climate change as part of the foreign staff of the Washington Post and continues to report on the subject.
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Dan Sullivan is managing editor at BioCycle magazine.
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Curtis Tate is a national correspondent at McClatchy’s Washington, D.C., bureau.
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Sarah Terry-Cobo is an independent journalist based in the San Francisco Bay Area, specializing in environmental science and policy and Latin American issues.
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Ker Than is a independent science writer based in New York City.
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Jonathan Thompson is a freelance journalist, a 2011–12 Ted Scripps Environmental Journalism Fellow at the University of Colorado, Boulder, and a contributing editor at High Country News.
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Ian Urbina is an investigative reporter for The New York Times.
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Mike Verespej has more than 40 years of experience at daily newspapers. He is currently the Washington, D.C.-based reporter for Plastics News, a Crain Communications publication.
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John Vidal is the environment editor at The Guardian in London.
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John Voelcker covers advanced technologies in the global auto industry as the editor of GreenCarReports.com and as a contributor to industry analyst Just-Auto.
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Bryan Walsh is a senior writer for TIME magazine covering energy and the environment.
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Brett Walton is a correspondent for Circle of Blue, a water news agency. Living in Seattle, he covers the politics and economics of water.
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Ucilia Wang is an independent journalist who covers clean technology and policy at Forbes, GigaOm, Technology Review, and other publications.
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Jonathan Watts is Asia environment correspondent for The Guardian and author of When a Billion Chinese Jump.
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Matt Weiser covers natural resources, water, and flood control for the Sacramento Bee.
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Kenneth R. Weiss is a Pulitzer Prize–winning staff writer at the Los Angeles Times. He focuses on environmental and public health.
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Julie Wernau covers energy, green technology, and manufacturing trends for the Chicago Tribune.
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Amy Westervelt is an independent reporter in San Francisco. In addition to her blog for Forbes.com, she writes for Slate.com, Sunset, The Faster Times, and Earth Island Journal.
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David Wethe covers the world's largest oilfield servicers, drillers and equipment makers for Bloomberg News in Houston.
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Matthew Wheeland is the managing editor of GreenBiz.com.
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Tim Wheeler covers the environment for The Baltimore Sun. His reporting on the Chesapeake Bay, childhood lead poisoning, growth and other environmental topics has won multiple awards.
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Christina Williams is the editor of Sustainable Business Oregon, a publication of the Portland Business Journal.
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Roger Witherspoon writes the blog Energy Matters. His work appears in Time, Newsweek, Fortune, Esssence, and the Economist.
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Todd Woody is the environment editor at Forbes magazine.
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Tim Worstall is an independent journalist who writes for The Guardian, Forbes.com, Wall Street Journal, The Times London, and Foreign Policy. He is a fellow at the Adam Smith Institute in London.
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Tom Yulsman is associate professor at the University of Colorado's School of Journalism & Mass Communication and co-director of the Center for Environmental Journalism.
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Tom Zeller Jr. is the senior energy and environment reporter at The Huffington Post. Previously he was a reporter and editor at The New York Times.
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Jocelyn Zuckerman is the articles editor of OnEarth.