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Natural disasters were big news in 2011

Posted on December 22nd by Tom Yulsman. %
But the environment generally barely registered in the news media and public mind Attention by the U.S. news media to environmental topics dropped from almost nil to all but nil ...
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“Today’s tsunami: This is what climate change looks like”

Posted on March 11th by Tom Yulsman. 45
And the story in Grist with that headline is what yellow journalism looks like Explosions at industrial facilities like the one pictured above in Ichihara, Japan; a destroyed village inundated ...
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Is my science journalism compromised by politics?

Posted on December 11th by Tom Yulsman. 27
What about climate scientists? Are their findings biased by politics and other factors? [caption id="attachment_4683" align="alignright" width="260" caption="Al and me. "][/caption] There's been a lot of talk lately about bias in science. ...

The Juan Williams imbroglio

Posted on October 22nd by Tom Yulsman. 4
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CGUyLEJnfsg&feature=player_embedded This blog is dedicated to news, analysis and commentary about pressing environmental issues such as climate change. So what does Juan Williams' firing by NPR for expressing fears about Muslims ...
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Tweeting a wildfire

Posted on September 30th by Tom Yulsman. 3
The false dichotomy of accurate, contextualized journalism versus supposedly inaccurate and potentially dangerous social media
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Must read: a stinging rebuke of Joe Romm’s McCarthy tactics

Posted on November 4th by Tom Yulsman. 17
In a post at their Breakthrough Institute blog, Michael Shellenberger and Ted Nordhaus offer a full-throated statement of support for journalists like Keith Kloor who have incurred ...

As G-8 climate talks fail, some analysts urge a different approach

Posted on July 9th by Tom Yulsman.
At the G-8 summit in L'Aquila, Italy today, leaders of the world's 16 biggest polluters failed to reach agreement on specific targets for reducing emissions of greenhouse gases. The failure ...

Twittering coal execs snagged by journalist

Posted on July 7th by Tom Yulsman.
Ken Ward, Jr., an environmental journalist at The Charleston (W.V.) Gazette, is using Twitter as a new channel to inform citizens what his sources have to say for themselves. According ...

What if all journalism went on strike for a week?

Posted on May 10th by Tom Yulsman. 2
In his typically  brilliant column in today's New York Times, Frank Rich asks the public a question: "Does it want to pony up for news, whatever the media that ...

Swine flu coverage: hype or tail-chasing?

Posted on April 28th by Tom Yulsman. %
We need more and better coverage of the historical and scientific context of the flu outbreak   Embedded video from CNN Video  The over-the-top, hyped-up Headline News report above isn't exactly what ...
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What mainstream media aren’t telling you about the swine flu outbreak

Posted on April 27th by Tom Yulsman. 7
A mother sow nurses her piglets in a confined animal feeding operation, or CAFO. (Source: Wikimedia Commons.) . Industrial-scale hog operations may raise the risk of human ...
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An icy Antarctic paradox

Posted on April 21st by Tom Yulsman. 3
The ozone hole is masking the impact of global warming in Antarctica This image from NASA's Aura satellite shows the extent of severe ozone depletion over Antarctica in September ...
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Joe Romm: the entirely dispensable censor

Posted on March 27th by Tom Yulsman. 26
Update end of day 3/29/09: Last spring, Ted Nordhaus wrote the definitive piece on Joe Romm and like-minded environmentalists. It is headlined, "The Green Politics of Personal Destruction: Deconstructing ...
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Global warming shibboleth

Posted on March 12th by Tom Yulsman. 6
Better understanding of science really is not key to climate action   Yale 360 has published an interview with New Yorker writer Elizabeth Kolbert on climate change in which she takes a rather ...

The NYT’s Andrew Revkin shows why he’s a top climate change reporter

Posted on February 27th by Tom Yulsman. 7
Update 11:50 a.m.: See this terrific blog posting from John Fleck.  Following withering critiques on one of his articles (here and here), New York Times reporter Andrew Revkin shows ...