Sandra Weiss

About

German freelance journalist and political scientist. After working in the Foreign Service, she moved to Latin America in 1999. Since then, she has been collaborating with news outlets and magazines such as Deutsche Welle, Le Monde Diplomatique, ABC (Australia), NZZaS, Zeit, Milenio Semanal, Welt, Geo etc. Since 2014, she is working on innovative multimedia stories with wekomedia.de. Finalist of Grimme online award, Hansel-Mieth-Preis, Media Award for Independent Journalism, Kurt-Schork-Award and in 2019 winner of the Catholic Media Prize for her multimedia project "Death of a nation".

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11 stories

Green Phenix artist Erwin Sprot with one of his creations, a human figure made with beer crown caps.

Can the circular economy help the Caribbean win its war against waste?

Sandra Weiss 20 May 2024

Arg-e Bam in Iran, a trading center on the famous Silk Road, known to be the largest adobe building in the world.

What’s old is new again: Bioarchitects plot route to circular economy

Sandra Weiss 26 Oct 2023

In Mexico’s Holbox, a natural paradise suffers from its own popularity

Sandra Weiss 4 Sep 2023

An Asian grass helps Mexican farmers build resilience to climate change

Sandra Weiss 22 May 2023

Cleaning a beach in the Dominican Republic.

Sargassum surges in Mexico: From nuisance to new green industry?

Sandra Weiss 17 May 2023

Harvesting abundance in the Amazon, and extinguishing the poverty mentality.

From scarcity to abundance: The secret of the ‘peace farmers’ of Colombia

Sandra Weiss 17 Apr 2023

On a Honduran island, a community effort grows to protect its precious reefs

Sandra Weiss 25 Mar 2022

Cooking with the sun: Entrepreneurs help launch Mexico’s solar revolution

Sandra Weiss 27 Oct 2021

Biofuel in Mexico: Uphill battle against bureaucracy, organized crime

Sandra Weiss 2 Jul 2021

In syntropic agriculture, farmers stop fighting nature and learn to embrace it

Sandra Weiss 30 Jul 2020

In the Ecuadoran Andes, protectors of the páramos guard their water source

Sandra Weiss 27 May 2020

News and Inspiration from Nature's Frontline.

How manatees won over an entire village. Manatee Brazil

Cambodian journalist Ouk Mao has been placed under court surveillance for exposing deforestation linked to a powerful mining company. Image by Nehru Pry / Mongabay.

2025 Goldman Prize winner Carlos Mallo Molina (Photo: Goldman Environmental Prize)

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