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.
A Heat Wave Left Arctic Sea Ice Near a Record Winter Low. This Town Is Paying the Price.
By Sabrina Shankman
These Climate Pollutants May Be Short-Lived, But They’re Wreaking Havoc on the Arctic
By Sabrina Shankman
Climate Change Threatens Thousands of Species in Our Lifetime
By Sabrina Shankman
East Coast Shatters Temperature Records as the Climate Changes
By Sabrina Shankman
236 Mayors Urge EPA Not to Repeal Clean Power Plan
By Sabrina Shankman
Alaska's Bering Sea Lost a Third of Its Ice in Just 8 Days
By Sabrina Shankman
Court Sides with Arctic Seals Losing Sea Ice Habitat to Climate Change
By Sabrina Shankman
Thawing Arctic Permafrost Hides a Toxic Risk: Mercury, in Massive Amounts
By Sabrina Shankman
We Can Pull CO2 from Air, But It's No Silver Bullet for Climate Change
By Sabrina Shankman
Trump's Arctic Oil Lease Sale Violated Environmental Rules, Lawsuits Claim
By Sabrina Shankman
Polar Bears Wearing Cameras and Fitbits Reveal an Arctic Struggle for Survival
By Sabrina Shankman
Overlooked Tiny Air Pollutants Can Have Major Climate Impact
By Sabrina Shankman
Dropping Florida from Offshore Drilling Opens Legal Cracks in Zinke's Plan
By Sabrina Shankman
Maine Town Wins Round in Tar Sands Oil Battle With Industry
By Sabrina Shankman
Congress Opens Arctic Wildlife Refuge to Drilling, But Do Companies Want In?
By Sabrina Shankman
Fracking Study Finds Low Birth Weights Near Natural Gas Drilling Sites
By Sabrina Shankman, by Sabrina Shankman