Why our newspaper group is doing this series on climate change
by Staff
Climate change is the biggest, most significant challenge of the 21st century. That is why the newspapers of the East Oregonian Publishing Co. began this occasional series in March.
Since the inception of our series, the public consciousness of climate change has grown. Developments in the Arctic have contributed to that. So did Al Gore's film, "An Inconvenient Truth." And so did the recent eye-catching agreement between California and Great Britain.
The first installment of our series focused on the ocean and our water supply. This installment will also highlight things that grow; including forests, animals and crops.
This series is an extraordinary commitment for a newspaper group of our size. From our varied geographical vantage points, our reporters and editors will describe what scientists, naturalists and ordinary citizens are observing and predicting.
- Steve Forrester, Editor and Publisher
The Daily Astorian
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A few of the many online articles:
Forests encounter new pest problems in the age of global warming
For 75 years, the mountain pine beetle has been a pest of concern for the Canadian Forest Service because of its ability to decimate lodgepole pine. Nothing, however, could have prepared Forest Service officials for what they now see.
Friday, September 08, 2006
Growers around the Northwest point to evidence of more pests
Five years ago, University of California Davis entomologist Frank Zalom saw whitefly in strawberries in the Oxnard-Ventura area of Southern California for the first time.
Friday, September 08, 2006
Northwest naturalist and author Pyle warns of trouble ahead
Robert Michael Pyle is an internationally known writer and biologist who has lived in Grays River, Wash., for 28 years.
Friday, September 08, 2006
A SPECIAL REPORT: Sea birds, insects and other critters suffer amid changing climate
The popular media have tried to portray just how global warming will affect humans. From science fiction movies to television documentaries, we've seen computer-generated images of ocean shores devouring coastlines in California and New York as glacial melting causes oceans to rise. And with more than six billion people on the planet, we may be one of the more populous mammal species.
Friday, September 08, 2006
Patten sets example for residents to become 'better stewards'
Kim Patten has defied conventional wisdom by basing his science career around a place - Willapa Bay - and the diverse people and other species who make their home there.
Thursday, September 07, 2006
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Editorial Notes ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
I count almost 30 online articles in this series published since September 6:
List of articles in the series
Download PDFs of articles in the series
Why our newspaper group is doing this series
A heroic journalistic effort. Series like this one are a big risk for small newspapers -- they are costly and some people may be offended.
Yet this seems to be where the profiles in courage for American journalism are being written -- in community newspapers like the Daily Astorian and in local metropolitan papers like the Cleveland Plain Dealer (Crude Awakening series)
The members of the East Oregonian Publishing Group include The Daily Astorian in Astoria, Ore., The East Oregonian in Pendleton, Ore., The Capital Press in Salem, Ore., (covering four states); the Blue Mountain Eagle in John Day, Ore., The Wallowa Chieftain in Enterprise, Ore., and the Chinook Observer in Long Beach, Wash.
-BA
Published on 10 Sep 2006 by Daily Astorian. Archived on 10 Sep 2006.
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