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.
Greenland's Melting: Heat Waves Are Changing the Landscape Before Their Eyes
By Sabrina Shankman
Activists Gird for a Bigger Battle Over Oil and a Port City's Tank Farms
By Sabrina Shankman
'A Death Spiral for Research’: Arctic Scientists Worried as Alaska Universities Face 40% Funding Cut
By Sabrina Shankman
Fearing Toxic Fumes, an Oil Port City Takes Matters Into Its Own Hands
By Sabrina Shankman
Fumes from Petroleum Tanks in this City Never Seem to Go Away. What Are the Kids Breathing?
By Sabrina Shankman
Mass Die-Off of Puffins Raises More Fears About Arctic's Warming Climate
By Sabrina Shankman
Coasts Should Plan for 6.5 Feet Sea Level Rise by 2100 as Precaution, Experts Say
By Sabrina Shankman
Louisiana's New Climate Plan: Migration, Retreat & Resilience as Sea Level Rises
By Sabrina Shankman
Humanity Faces a Biodiversity Crisis. Climate Change Makes It Worse.
By Georgina Gustin, John H. Cushman Jr., Sabrina Shankman
Thawing Arctic Permafrost Will Do Trillions in Damage as Earth Warms, Study Says
By Sabrina Shankman
Saving Ecosystems to Protect the Climate, and Vice Versa: a Global Deal for Nature
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What the Arctic Drilling Ban Means to Native Villages Who Rely on the Ocean
By Sabrina Shankman
Judge Blocks Trump's Arctic Offshore Drilling Expansion as Lawyers Ramp Up Legal Challenges
By Sabrina Shankman
The U.S. Military Needed New Icebreakers Years Ago. A Melting Arctic Is Raising the National Security Stakes.
By Sabrina Shankman, U.S. Military Needed New Icebreakers Years Ago. A Melting Arctic Is Raising the National Security Stakes.
U.S. Starts Process to Open Arctic to Offshore Drilling, Despite Federal Lawsuit
By Sabrina Shankman
Q&A: Drier Autumns Are Fueling Deadly California Wildfires
By Sabrina Shankman