The Society of Environmental Journalists is pleased to announce the Outstanding Explanatory Reporting, Large winners of the 2023 SEJ Awards for Reporting on the Environment. Read the stories and hear from the first-place winner.
From the suffragettes to US civil rights campaigners, there are many examples from history of social movements using direct action to push for change. It's a tactic climate activists in the West are increasingly resorting to today. But do radical acts still work with a challenge as immense as climate change? And how are such protests viewed in other parts of the world?
If the COVID-19 pandemic has taught us one thing, it's how quickly new diseases can spring up on us. Is the next zoonotic disease brewing in Kenya? And could a robot in India finally bring an end to the unhealthy and banned practice of cleaning blocked sewage pipes by hand? We also hear how how health workers from the Philippines are carving out a new life for themselves abroad.
The ocean, which covers most of the planet, is full of energy. If we could use all waves around the world we could power the planet three times over. But so far there are only a few wave power plants in operation.
Frustrated by a lack of female representation, film-maker Akanksha Sood Singh set up an Instagram account to showcase ‘the untold stories of women working for science and nature’