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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.

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The U.S.S. Connecticut breaks through the ice on the Beaufort Sea during a submarine exercise in March 2018. Credit: Mass Communication 2nd Class Micheal H. Lee/U.S. Navy

Arctic Drilling Lease Sale Proposed for 2019 in Beaufort Sea, Once Off-Limits

By Sabrina Shankman

Waves batter Little Diomede Island, where coastal communities are normally protected by ice through the winter. This year, the ice buffer melted early. Credit: Frances OzennaWaves batter Little Diomede Island, where the coastal community is normally prote

A Heat Wave Left Arctic Sea Ice Near a Record Winter Low. This Town Is Paying the Price.

By Sabrina Shankman

A UCLA research team takes measurements in Greenland, where soot has darkened the ice in some areas, contributing to melting. Credit: Mia Bennett/CryopoliticsSoot has darkened the ice in areas of the Greenland ice sheet, contributing to melting. Credit: M

These Climate Pollutants May Be Short-Lived, But They’re Wreaking Havoc on the Arctic

By Sabrina Shankman

A Verreaux's sifaka, a type of lemur that lives in Madagascar. Credit: Martina Lippuner/WWF

Climate Change Threatens Thousands of Species in Our Lifetime

By Sabrina Shankman

U.S. temperatures on Feb. 21, 2018, at 1 p.m. EST. Credit: National Weather Service

East Coast Shatters Temperature Records as the Climate Changes

By Sabrina Shankman

Hurricanes wrecked havoc on Houston and other U.S. cities in 2017.  Credit: Erich Schlegel/Getty Images

236 Mayors Urge EPA Not to Repeal Clean Power Plan

By Sabrina Shankman

A ship plows through ice in the Bering Sea in January 2012. Credit: U.S. Coast Guard/Getty Images

Alaska's Bering Sea Lost a Third of Its Ice in Just 8 Days

By Sabrina Shankman

Ringed seal. Credit: Kazuhiro Nogi/AFP/Getty Images

Court Sides with Arctic Seals Losing Sea Ice Habitat to Climate Change

By Sabrina Shankman

These eroding coastal bluffs in Alaska are thick with permafrost. Credit: U.S. Geological Survey

Thawing Arctic Permafrost Hides a Toxic Risk: Mercury, in Massive Amounts

By Sabrina Shankman

A Climeworks facility in Switzerland pulls carbon dioxide from the air. Credit: Climateworks

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

A camera attached to a polar bear captures a close-up of another bear on the ice. Credit: U.S. Geological Survey

Polar Bears Wearing Cameras and Fitbits Reveal an Arctic Struggle for Survival

By Sabrina Shankman

A research aircraft obtains data on pollutants from the sky above Manaus, Brazil

Overlooked Tiny Air Pollutants Can Have Major Climate Impact

By Sabrina Shankman

California, where drilling rigs have caused oil spills in the past, is one of several states calling on the government to remove it from the federal drilling plan. Credit: Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement

Dropping Florida from Offshore Drilling Opens Legal Cracks in Zinke's Plan

By Sabrina Shankman

The city of South Portland, Maine has spent five years fighting to stop a local pipeline company from bringing tar sands oil through the city and building a pair smokestacks near Bug Light Park. Credit: Corey Templeton via Creative Commons

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

Hydraulic fracturing site near a home in Pennsylvania. Credit: Anna Belle Peevey

Fracking Study Finds Low Birth Weights Near Natural Gas Drilling Sites

By Sabrina Shankman, by Sabrina Shankman

Arctic ice in the Beaufort Sea off Alaska. Credit: Thomas Newman/CICS-MD/NOAA

Arctic Report Card: Lowest Sea Ice on Record, 2nd Warmest Year

By Sabrina Shankman

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