Dangerous times for environment journalists

A new report shows how journalists who cover climate and the environment are being targeted by powerful private and state actors.

I first wrote about the dangers facing environment journalists 14 years ago, after a sudden spate of cases in which journalists had been threatened, attacked or even died in suspicious circumstances after reporting on illegal logging.

The cases were part of a much broader trend. Journalists around the world were being threatened, jailed, beaten and kill…