Donation to establish professorship of climate journalism at UVic
“This is a very important priority for me,” Crookes said. “We need to communicate more effectively with journalists — especially editors — about the risks of climate change and the threats to biodiversity that humanity as a whole is facing. I believe climate change is an existential threat that the world is not doing enough to meet.” The professor will be appointed later this year within UVic’s writing department. UVic president Kevin Hall said Crookes’s support for environmental journalism mirrors UVic’s “deep conviction to help address the challenges posed by climate ...