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The Grantham Prize An annual $75,000 prize honoring outstanding coverage of environmental issues. www.granthamprize.org

The Grantham Prize is generously supported by the Grantham Foundation for Protection of the Environment.

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30/11/2012

Amanda Babson of the National Park Service talks about how her agency is adapting to climate change at Metcalf Institute’s Peter Lord Seminar on the Environment. The workshop, which is happening right now, is geared towards southern New England journalists. Look for a video of the presentations in the coming weeks.

09/10/2012
Grantham Prize Comes to an End

The Grantham Prize will come to a close as Metcalf Institute and the Grantham Foundation shift their collaboration to a new phase focused on helping more journalists achieve excellence in environmental news coverage http://ow.ly/el4nu

NARRAGANSETT, RI –Metcalf Institute for Marine & Environmental Reportingannounced thatThe Grantham Foundation for the Protection of the...

30/09/2012
A Dark Dystopia by Alanna Mitchell - The Literary Review of Canada

2010 Grantham Prize winner Alanna Mitchell reviews 2009 Grantham Prize finalist Andrew Nikiforuk's new book

Alanna Mitchellis an award-winning journalist and who writes about science and the environment. Her most recent book,Sea Sick: The Global Ocean in Crisis(McClelland and Stewart, 2010), is an international bestseller and won the Grantham Prize in 2010.

13/08/2012
UNC journalism school launches interactive film on how water powers life

The latest project from 2012 Grantham Award of Special Merit winners at the UNC Chapel Hill School of Journalism focuses on water

Journalism students at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have launched an interactive film exploring the human connection with water from life to death at 100gallons.org.

08/08/2012
Ouch! July in US was hottest ever in history books

another important story from Seth Borenstein at the AP

WASHINGTON (AP) — This probably comes as no surprise: Federal scientists say July was the hottest month ever recorded in the Lower 48 states, breaking a record set during the Dust Bowl of the 1930s.And even less a surprise: The U.S. this year keeps setting records for weather extremes, based on the ...

08/08/2012

2012 finalist wonders whether "the ultimate indicator species" will survive the Pebble Mine in Alaska http://ow.ly/cOaCi

06/08/2012
New study ties global warming to recent year heat

2011 Grantham Award of Special Merit winner Seth Borenstein reports on new study linking current events to climate change

WASHINGTON (AP) — An analysis by a top government scientist says the extreme heat and drought seen in the U.S., Europe and other regions in recent years must be global warming. Specifically the study by NASA scientist James Hansen blames climate change for last year's drought in Texas and Oklahoma, ...

06/08/2012

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02/08/2012
Live Chat: Elizabeth Kolbert on the Heat Wave

Interesting chat w/ 2006 Grantham Award of Special Merit recipient, Elizabeth Kolbert, re: this summer's heat wave

In this week’s Comment, Elizabeth Kolbert writes about this summer’s heat wave. On Monday, Kolbert answered readers’ questions in a live chat. Read a transcript of the discussion in the console below. Elizabeth Kolbert on the Heat Wave Replay...

25/07/2012
Runaway population growth often fuels youth-driven uprisings

2007 Grantham Prize winner Ken Weiss reports on results of overpopulation in his new LA Times series

In fast-growing countries, many young men are unable to find employment or pay dowries. Frustrated ambitions can be an explosive force — and a...

20/07/2012
Powering a Nation Team, 2012 Grantham Award of Merit Recipient

More than just a miner’s daughter? “It really makes you care about these characters and live in their lives,” says Grantham Prize finalist Delphine Andrews re: her team’s film http://bit.ly/Nd0tLp.

Each year The Grantham Prize awards the world's largest cash journalism prize for exceptional environmental reporting as well as several Grantham...

10/07/2012
Coal: A Love Story

Great story by Howard Berkes today on All Things Considered re: the rise in black lung among coal miners as a result of the increased time spent in the mines. For another perspective on this, watch 2012 Grantham Award of Special Merit winning Coal: A Love Story

Design and animation Sarah Riazati Editing Caitlyn Greene & Sarah Riazati Music Optimist by Zoe Keating, Courtesy of the Free Music Archive

27/06/2012
2012 Grantham Prize Winner, Brandon Loomis

Have you watched the video about the 2012 Grantham Prize-winning story on the loss of Western forests yet?

Each year The Grantham Prize awards one $75,000 award for exceptional environmental reporting.

22/06/2012
The melting north

special report on the melting Arctic by 2011 winner, James Astill. http://ow.ly/bKeey

STANDING ON THE Greenland ice cap, it is obvious why restless modern man so reveres wild places. Everywhere you look, ice draws the eye, squeezed...

15/06/2012
SEJ Member Spotlight: Brandon Loomis | SEJ

The Society of Environmental Journalists featured Grantham Prize winner, Brandon Loomis on their site this week:

SEJ member Brandon Loomis has just won the 2012 Grantham Prize for Excellence in Reporting on the Environment.

11/06/2012
The Grantham Prize :: 2012 Awards of Merit

Congrats to another 2012 Grantham Award of Special Merit winner: Waking the Green Tiger, a beautiful film about an emerging environmental movement in China

Seen through the eyes of activists, farmers, and journalists, "Waking the Green Tiger" follows an extraordinary campaign to stop a massive dam project that would displace 100,000 people on the upper Yangtze River at Leaping Tiger Gorge in southwestern China.

09/06/2012
Tribune forests project wins environmental reporting prize | The Salt Lake Tribune

The Salt Lake Trib's coverage of their colleagues big win:
http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/news/54239425-78/prize-reporting-forests-grantham.html.csp

“Our Dying Forests” a Salt Lake Tribune investigation into what’s causing massive red and gray swathes of dead trees throughout the Intermountain West, has won a prestigious and lucrative national environmental reporting prize. Reporter Brandon Loomis, along with photographer Rick Egan and editor D...

07/06/2012
The Grantham Prize :: 2012 Awards of Merit

2012 Grantham Award of Special Merit winner Paul Greenberg just wrapped up an interesting lecture on sustainable fishhttp://bit.ly/KjseLg

The USA TODAY reporting team worked with academic researchers to pool government data on industrial polluters near 127,800 schools. What they...

07/06/2012
Salt Lake Tribune Takes Grantham Prize

Great summation of the 2012 Grantham Prize winning story, Our Dying Forests, by Curtis Brainard of CJR

$75,000 award goes to series about threatened forest for second year in a row

07/06/2012
Coal: A Love Story

You must see this website, winner of one of the 2012 Grantham Award of Special Merit recipients. The News21 Fellows at UNC did an amazing job!

Design and animation Sarah Riazati Editing Caitlyn Greene & Sarah Riazati Music Optimist by Zoe Keating, Courtesy of the Free Music Archive

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The Grantham Prize was supported by the Grantham Foundation for Protection of the Environment from 2006-2012. Administered by Metcalf Institute at the University of Rhode Island, the prize was designed to honor excellence in news coverage of the environment.