Sabrina Shankman
Reporter, Maine
Sabrina Shankman is a reporter for InsideClimate News focusing on the Arctic. She joined InsideClimate in the fall of 2013, after helping produce documentaries and interactives for the PBS show “Frontline” since 2010 with 2over10 Media. She worked as a co-producer, field producer or associate producer on the Frontline films League of Denial (2013); Money, Power and Wall Street (2012); A Perfect Terrorist (2011); Dr. Hotspots (2011) and Law and Disorder (2010). In 2012, she produced the online interactive A Perfect Terrorist: David Coleman Headley’s Web of Betrayal, which won an Overseas Press Club of America award. She is the author of Meltdown: Terror at the Top of the World. She has also reported for ProPublica, the Wall Street Journal and the Associated Press. Her work has been honored by the Society of Professional Journalists and the Society of Environmental Journalists, and she was named a finalist for the Livingston Awards for Young Journalists in 2010 and again in 2015. Shankman has a Masters in Journalism from UC Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism.
Dead Birds Washing Up by the Thousands Send a Warning About Climate Change
By Sabrina Shankman
3 Arctic Wilderness Areas to Watch as Trump Tries to Expand Oil & Gas Drilling
By Sabrina Shankman
Arctic Report Card 2019: Extreme Ice Loss, Dying Species as Global Warming Worsens
By Sabrina Shankman
They Built a Life in the Shadow of Industrial Tank Farms. Now, They’re Fighting for Answers.
By Sabrina Shankman
With Giant Oil Tanks on Its Waterfront, This City Wants to Know: What Happens When Sea Level Rises?
By Sabrina Shankman
A Tale of Two Futures: Climate Change Health Risks Facing a Child Born Today
By Sabrina Shankman
Alaska’s Big Whale Mystery: Where Are the Bowheads?
By Sabrina Shankman
'This Is Not Normal.’ New Air Monitoring Reveals Hazards in This Maine City.
By Sabrina Shankman
Trump Wants to Erase Protections in Alaska's Tongass National Forest, a Storehouse of Carbon
By Sabrina Shankman
From Antarctica to Oceans, Climate Change Damage Is About to Get a Lot Worse, IPCC Warns
By Sabrina Shankman
Air Pollution Particles Showing Up in Human Placentas, Next to the Fetus
By Sabrina Shankman
House Votes to Block Arctic Wildlife Refuge Drilling as Clock Ticks Toward First Oil, Gas Lease Sale
By Sabrina Shankman
What Is Nitrous Oxide and Why Is It a Climate Threat?
By Sabrina Shankman
BP's Selling Off Its Alaska Oil Assets. The Buyer Has a History of Safety Violations.
By Sabrina Shankman
City's Air Testing Reveals Troubling Benzene Spikes That Officials Don’t Fully Understand
By Sabrina Shankman
Kirsten Gillibrand on Climate Change: Where the Candidate Stands
By Sabrina Shankman
