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NYT Leads Pulitzers as InsideClimate News Wins Its First

2013-04-15 07:35:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Bloomberg: The New York Times led the Pulitzer Prizes with awards in four categories, including investigative reporting, while InsideClimate News won for the first time for its coverage of regulation of oil pipelines. The New York Times, owned by New York Times Co. (NYT), also was awarded for explanatory reporting, international reporting and feature writing. InsideClimate News, based in Brooklyn, New York, was given the prize for national reporting. The 97th annual Pulitzer Prizes for excellence in reporting...

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NYT: E-Waste Epidemic Creating a Toxic 'Glass Tsunami'

2013-03-19 21:52:07| Electronics - Topix.net

The proliferation of toxic electronic waste is creating a "glass tsunami," according to New York Times writer Ian Urbina, whose new piece highlights the surging epidemic of e-waste stockpiles and the disturbing lack of oversight that has all-but absolved the consumer electronics industry behind the mess.

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NYT, WaPo cut back environment coverage, since were not worried about that anymore

2013-03-05 21:47:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Grist: On Friday afternoon, The New York Times discontinued the Green blog, the papers one-stop shop for environment-related news. Then on Monday, the Washington Post announced it was pulling its star climate reporter, Juliet Eilperin, off of the beat and putting her on an online strike force covering the White House. All of this can only mean one of two things: 1) The environment is fine, or 2) imminent global catastrophe is not as interesting as photo essays of matching, over-upholstered apartments...

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Knock it off, NYT: In defense of James Hansen and other climate hawks

2013-03-05 20:56:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Grist: Like this morning. I opened the newspaper to read a column in the New York Times by Joe Nocera. Its his fourth column pushing for the Keystone XL pipeline; fair enough. (Though in the third, he managed to get the economics of carbon so completely backward that he had to append a long correction to yet another column.) This time, though, the vehicle he used was an attack on NASA scientist James Hansen, who had correctly identified the huge amount of carbon in the tar sands of Canada and Venezuela....

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