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1. June 15, 2012 03:00 PM

   Adrift in a sea of (no) coverage

   For two years, little in the news about battle over National Ocean Policy

   By Curtis Brainard

   Last October, Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar called on the press to pay more attention to the Obama administration’s achievements in environmental conservation. In response, The Miami Herald’s Carl Hiaasen suggested that the government give journalists more to write about, and he had a point. On Sunday, The Washington Post’s Juliet Eilperin had a revealing article (which should’ve gotten...

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2. November 20, 2012 12:15 PM

   Highway to the danger zone

   Following Sandy, HuffPo and NYT dig into the folly of coastal development

   By Curtis Brainard

   Hurricane Sandy renewed the media’s interest in the many foolish ways that we increase our vulnerability to extreme weather. There’s climate change, of course. That came up right away. But carbon pollution isn’t the only, or even the most immediate, thing that we’re doing to imperil ourselves. There’s also relentless, right-up-to-the-water’s-edge-in-a-floodplain coastal development. After focusing on global warming in the...

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3. October 13, 2011 12:30 PM

   Hooking the Reader

   Dublin meeting highlights reporting challenges related to oceans, seafood

   By James Fahn

   Give a man a fish and he’ll eat for a day, as the old saying goes. Teach a man to fish and he’ll eat the rest of his life. But that presumes there remain plenty of fish in the sea and journalists to help monitor them. Unfortunately, both are increasingly risky assumptions, as news outlets have been hammered by cutbacks...

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4. November 6, 2012 11:00 AM

   Lemmings like us

   Businessweek’s climate-change broadside is powerful, but ignores the allure of waterfront property

   By Curtis Brainard

   Hurricane Sandy finally got the media talking about climate change last week, but Bloomberg Businessweek spoke the loudest with a bold, red cover that featured a picture of a flooded New York City street and the words, “It’s Global Warming, Stupid,” in big, black letters above it. As the cyclone spun up the eastern seaboard, I warned against making overstatements...

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