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Chris Bentley

Chris Bentley

Chris is a freelance writer, photographer, editor and producer based in Boston. He has a master’s degree in journalism from the Medill School at Northwestern University, where he was a 2010-11 Comer Scholar for climate change reporting, and a 2011-12 ISEN Cluster Fellow studying sustainability and energy. He was a Climate Change Reporting Fellow with GroundTruth. His radio work has appeared on shows and stations including PRI's The World, WGBH, WBUR, WBEZ and PRX:REMIX. He has written for publications including The New York Times' Green blog, The Chicago Tribune, Chicago Magazine, Crain's, CityLab, Dwell, Architect, Next City, The Huffington Post, New Scientist, DNAinfo and Time Out.
Many neighborhoods along Jakarta's rivers are being bulldozed to make way for river widening and "revitalization" projects. (Photo by Muhammad Fadli/GroundTruth)
Environment

Navigating Jakarta as it tries to stay above water

JAKARTA, Indonesia — One of the first things I’m learning as a foreigner visiting this city for the...

Jul 28, 2016
Environment

Sign of the Times: World leaders ink Paris climate agreement

NEW YORK — Representatives of 175 nations gathered in New York City on Friday to sign the Paris Agreement,...

Apr 22, 2016
Environment

UN climate chief: ‘We oldies had to learn what climate change was’

Last night in Boston we got an answer to a question we'd been trying to ask for months. If...

Apr 07, 2016
Environment

Reporting on climate change in the face of terror

ROTTERDAM, Netherlands—We learned of the terrorist attacks in Brussels the way many people get news these days: with...

Mar 24, 2016
Asia

Can private investment help vulnerable cities adapt to climate change?

More than 700,000 people had evacuated the central Philippines as Typhoon Melor rolled onto the island of Samar....

Dec 15, 2015
Environment

Conservationists Look to ‘Blue Carbon’ to Help Ease Global Warming

When subsistence fishermen on the island of Chira couldn't find clams in Costa Rica's lush Gulf of Nicoya,...

Dec 14, 2015
Kumi Naidoo Greenpeace
Environment

Q & A with Greenpeace head Kumi Naidoo on the climate struggle

After six years leading global activism campaigns as the head of Greenpeace International, Kumi Naidoo is heading home....

Dec 14, 2015
Environment

Paris activists come in many shades of green, and of optimism

For two weeks, diplomats have been drafting a deal on climate change at the United Nations talks in...

Dec 10, 2015
obama in paris at cop21
Environment

Obama at COP21: The world shares a ‘sense of urgency’

LE BOURGET, France — World leaders cast the coming two weeks of climate negotiations in hopeful terms on...

Dec 01, 2015
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