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.
Arctic Sea Ice Hits Record Lows Off Alaska
By Sabrina Shankman
In Alaska's Thawing Permafrost, Humanity's 'Library Is on Fire'
By Sabrina Shankman
Italian Oil Company Passes Last Hurdle to Start Drilling in U.S. Arctic Waters
By Sabrina Shankman
This Coastal Town Banned Tar Sands and Sparked a War with the Oil Industry
By Sabrina Shankman
At Stake in Arctic Refuge Drilling Vote: Money, Wilderness and a Way of Life
By Sabrina Shankman
Climate Change Is Happening in the U.S. Now, Federal Report Says — in Charts
By Sabrina Shankman
Alaska Orders Review of All North Slope Oil Wells After Spill Linked to Permafrost
By Sabrina Shankman
These Senators Tried to Protect the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge from Drilling. They Failed.
By Sabrina Shankman
Trump Nominee to Lead Climate Agency Supported Privatizing U.S. Weather Data
By Sabrina Shankman
Whistleblower Quits with Scathing Letter over Trump Interior Dept. Leadership
By Sabrina Shankman
Arctic National Wildlife Refuge Targeted for Drilling in Senate Budget Plan
By Sabrina Shankman
Costs of Climate Change: Estimate for Hurricanes, Wildfires Reaches $300 Billion
By Sabrina Shankman
6 Questions on Hurricane Irma, Climate Change and Harvey
By Sabrina Shankman
U.S. Is Eliminating Its Arctic and Climate Envoys. What Message Does that Send?
By Sabrina Shankman
Energy Dept. Asks Scientists to Remove 'Climate Change' from Grant Proposal
By Sabrina Shankman
An Arctic Offshore Drilling Plan Advances, but Impact Statement Cites Concerns
By Sabrina Shankman
