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Sabrina Shankman

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.

Caribou in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, above the Arctic Circle, in early July 2019. Credit: Danielle Brigida/USFWS

Alaska's Hottest Month on Record: Melting Sea Ice, Wildfires and Unexpected Die-Offs

By Sabrina Shankman

Inuit fishermen prepare a net as free-floating ice floats behind them at the mouth of the Ilulissat Icefjord during unseasonably warm weather on July 30, 2019. Credit: Sean Gallup/Getty Images

Greenland's Melting: Heat Waves Are Changing the Landscape Before Their Eyes

By Sabrina Shankman

Reporter Sabrina Shankman and her son, Oscar, collect their air sample. The city expects results in late August. Credit: Andrew Hodgkins

Activists Gird for a Bigger Battle Over Oil and a Port City's Tank Farms

By Sabrina Shankman

Scientists with the University of Alaska Fairbanks and two national labs conduct permafrost research. Credit: Los Alamos National Laboratory

'A Death Spiral for Research’: Arctic Scientists Worried as Alaska Universities Face 40% Funding Cut

By Sabrina Shankman

Maine DEP Air Bureau Senior Chemist Danielle Twomey trains South Portland residents Jay DeMartine, Annika Frazier and Ryan Frazier to use portable air-collection canisters. Credit: Carl D. Walsh/Portland Press Herald via Getty Images

Fearing Toxic Fumes, an Oil Port City Takes Matters Into Its Own Hands

By Sabrina Shankman

South Portland felt like an idyllic town, one where kids can run around and be kids. Then news surfaced about the tank farms' fumes. Credit: Sabrina Shankman

Fumes from Petroleum Tanks in this City Never Seem to Go Away. What Are the Kids Breathing?

By Sabrina Shankman

Tufted puffins on St Paul Island in the Bering Sea off the Alaska coast. Credit: Isaac Sanchez/CC-BY-2.0

Mass Die-Off of Puffins Raises More Fears About Arctic's Warming Climate

By Sabrina Shankman

In Boston, more developments are taking sea level rise into account by building up the ground beneath buildings, installing extra-tall ground floors and redoubling other flood-protection efforts. Credit: Jonathan Wiggs/The Boston Globe via Getty Images

Coasts Should Plan for 6.5 Feet Sea Level Rise by 2100 as Precaution, Experts Say

By Sabrina Shankman

Children run across a bayou bridge to reach their home in Isle de Jean Charles. Credit: Julie Dermansky/Corbis via Getty images

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 permafrost. Credit: National Park Service

Thawing Arctic Permafrost Will Do Trillions in Damage as Earth Warms, Study Says

By Sabrina Shankman

The Arctic tundra is among several key ecosystems that store large amounts of carbon, keeping it out of the atmosphere, but are under increasing pressure as global temperatures rise. Credit: Dave Walsh/VW Pics/UIG via Getty Images

Saving Ecosystems to Protect the Climate, and Vice Versa: a Global Deal for Nature

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Martha Itta outside the Native Village of Nuiqsut office. Credit: Sabrina Shankman/InsideClimate News

What the Arctic Drilling Ban Means to Native Villages Who Rely on the Ocean

By Sabrina Shankman

Arctic oil drilling. Credit: Sergey Anisimov/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images

Judge Blocks Trump's Arctic Offshore Drilling Expansion as Lawyers Ramp Up Legal Challenges

By Sabrina Shankman

Dangers Without Borders: An ICN Series on Military Readiness in a Warming World

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.

Early exploratory wells in the American Arctic didn’t produce enough oil or gas, and with falling oil prices, many large companies abandoned plans for the region. New attempts are running into other challenges. Credit: Sgt. Aaron M. Johnson/U.S. Air Force

U.S. Starts Process to Open Arctic to Offshore Drilling, Despite Federal Lawsuit

By Sabrina Shankman

California's deadliest wildfire on record swept through the down of Paradise in November. Credit: Josh Edelson/AFP/Getty Images

Q&A: Drier Autumns Are Fueling Deadly California Wildfires

By Sabrina Shankman

Tree in a field. Credit: Joel Saget/AFP/Getty Images

Capturing CO2 from Air: To Keep Global Warming Under 1.5°C, Emissions Must Go Negative, IPCC Says

By Sabrina Shankman

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