Environmental journalism
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Environment
Winter Storm Shopping Reveals Recycling Confusion in Athens
Back-to-back winter storms in Athens exposed confusion about plastic recycling and highlighted a larger issue of everyday waste. The forecasts for these storms last month sent Athens residents rushing to grocery stores, where cases of bottled water and packaged goods disappeared within hours. Business surged as shoppers stocked up ahead…
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Doing Journalism
The Lead: Grist’s Lylla Younes on Environmental Storytelling
Lylla Younes’ work has had an impact. Her work mapping cancer-causing industrial pollution in Louisiana for ProPublica helped lead to a plastic manufacturer’s permit to be suspended. She’s written about oil spills, hazardous waste and a tanker off the coast of Yemen that’s poised to cause an environmental disaster. She’s…