Closing Ceremony and Plenary: The Hazard Zone: Science Journalists Tackle Natural Disasters
The panelists in this late-breaking plenary, organized to address the recent spate of natural disasters, will discuss the challenges of covering earthquakes, hurricanes, wildfires, and... Read More
Why the Wafflers Are Wrong: Addressing Climate Change Is Urgent—and a Bargain
In 2017, more than 80 percent of the world’s energy supply continues to come from burning coal, oil and natural gas, with complete release of... Read More
Exploring and Managing Earth’s Microbiome
Cheap DNA sequencing has transformed the field of biology, revealing everything from the genetic drivers of cancer to the keys to human evolution. Today, scientists... Read More
Economic Inequality, Violence, and Life in a Changing Climate
If the global climate warms, how will this affect human societies around the world? Science fiction books and movies speculate about possible futures, but what... Read More
Climate Change Primer: Responding to Global Impacts of Human Activity
California leads the United States in responding to global climate change as it tries to create a clean-energy economy, ameliorate the effects of global change... Read More
Ringing in the Changes: The Role of Advocacy Journalism in Telling Science Stories
Can advocacy journalism, which demands close involvement, and science journalism, which requires distance, be bedfellows? Do journalists relinquish their objectivity when advocating on an issue?... Read More
Make ‘em Sizzle: Turn Up the Heat on Slow Environmental Stories
Covering the slow-burn, unsexy stories of long-term environmental crises can be a greater challenge than ever for science journalists working in a 24/7 news cycle.... Read More
Stories Don’t Stop at Borders, So Journalists Shouldn’t Either
Science is an international business, major stories are cross-border or even global and the need for independent journalism to reflect this is vital. Yet the... Read More
The Human Ethics of Global Crisis Reporting
Science is at the heart of many of the world’s greatest crises, including infectious disease outbreaks, weather and climate related catastrophes, and energy sector exploitation... Read More
Can We Save the Oceans from Ourselves?
The ocean is arguably the planet’s greatest natural wonder, covering nearly three-quarters of the earth’s surface, providing many ecosystem services and supporting an abundance of... Read More