Environmental Journalism

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This type of journalism is devoted to reporting on matters of the environment, including issues of pollution, climate change, and conservation of natural resources.

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- "Environmental journalism is the collection, verification, production, distribution and exhibition of information regarding current events, trends, and issues associated with the non-human world."
- "To be an environmental journalist, one must have an understanding of scientific language." - "The individual needs to put to use their knowledge of historical environmental events." - "One must have the ability to follow environmental policy decisions and environmental organizations." - "An environmental journalist should have a general understanding of current environmental concerns, and the ability to communicate information to the public in a way that is easily understood."
- "Environmental journalism falls within the scope of environmental communication."
- "Its roots can be traced to nature writing."
- "One controversy in environmental journalism is how to distinguish the genre from its allied disciplines."