Washington Post wins Pulitzer Prize for series that detailed environmental devastation

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in global hot spots.

'In late 2018, Washington Post environmental writer Chris Mooney began noticing a small but recurring theme in scientific studies about climate change: Most places on the planet had gotten warmer on average over the preceding century, but some had become hotter than others. Prolonged warming had changed these local ecosystems for the worse, indicating that climate change wasn’t just an abstract future threat but an ongoing one.

Mooney began talking up the idea with his editor, Trish Wilson, and soon a series of articles, photos, videos and graphics was born. Eventually, the effort to document places on the planet that had experienced above-average warming involved 53 people in The Post’s newsroom.

On Monday, a panel of judges awarded the series the Pulitzer Prize, journalism’s highest honor. The project, dubbed “2C: Beyond the Limit” for the benchmark two-degree Celsius temperature rise, won for explanatory journalism.'>>>

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