Best reporting in any medium on international environmental issues
AWARD YEAR: 2001
AWARD NAME: The Whitman Bassow Award 2001
RECIPIENTS: Jeffrey Kluger, Michael Lemonick
AFFILIATION: Time
HONORED WORK: “Global Warming”
Time magazine’s special report on climate change synthesizes the latest scientific evidence on the world’s deadly dependence on fossil fuels. “Except for nuclear war or a collision with an asteroid, no force has more potential to damage our planet’s web of life than global warming,” the authors conclude. A separate story examines the U.S. decision to walk away from nine years of international negotiations and how it, alone among nations, abandoned the 1997 Kyoto treaty limiting the emission of greenhouse gases.
Citation for Excellence:
Fred Guterl and Eve Conant with Stefan Theil, William Ide, Antonia Francis
Newsweek
“The Wasteland: Russia’s Nuclear Waste Plan”