Stephen Leahy

Stephen Leahy

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Based in Canada, Stephen has been reporting on the Earth’s biosphere — our planet’s thin layer of life — for over 20 years. His work appears in National Geographic News, Vice Motherboard, The Guardian, Ensia, Mongabay and the Inter Press News Service. In 2018 he received the SEAL Environmental Journalism Award for his reporting at National Geographic and VICE. He previously received the United Nations Global Prize for Climate Change and Environment Reporting. Stephen is also author of award-winning book: Your Water Footprint: The Shocking Facts About How Much Water We Use To Make Everyday Products, judged the best Canadian science book of 2014.

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Global fisheries deprive local communities of key nutrients, study finds

Stephen Leahy 26 Sep 2019

Africa’s largest reserve may lose half its area to oil development

Stephen Leahy 2 Aug 2019

Activists, indigenous people plan healing walk in ‘sick’ tar sands landscape

Stephen Leahy 1 Jul 2013

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