Dan Vergano of USA Today, Michelle Nijhuis of High Country News, and the Times-Picayune (New Orleans) are receiving the American Geophysical Union’s 2006 journalism awards.
Vergano is receiving the David Perlman Award for Excellence in Science Journalism—News for his article “The Debate’s Over: Globe Is Warming,” USA Today’s cover story on 13 June 2005.
Nijhuis takes the Walter Sullivan Award for Excellence in Science Journalism—Features for a three-part series with the overall title “Hot Times: Global Warming in the West,” which appeared on the front page of the western Colorado-based bimonthly newspaper High Country News on 24 January, 18 April, and 17 October 2005.
The Times-Picayune, a daily newspaper, will receive a special award for its coverage of scientific research demonstrating the vulnerability of New Orleans to hurricanes and other environmental impacts in the years prior to Hurricane Katrina, according to a statement by the AGU....
