thanks for sharing this amazing collection of work! congratulations and respect to all of you - and all you doing this insanely challenging work across the globe.
i have to ask, however, where are the small-market heroes? did i miss it? did sej do away with it?
speaking as a soundly bitten claustraphobe who will likely always be consigned to raising hell in the shallow/rural/southern end of the population pool (*who did not enter any work, btw*), i can tell you that these folks deserve our respect and admiration, too.
i would suggest that small-market reporters (and their editors) who try to do the beat justice are subjected to more direct resistance, intimidation, and, sometimes, abuse, that their major-market counterparts.
respects to all, but please, let the encouragements flow south of the 200,000-circulation line. it's only right - and it's good for enviro journalism as a whole.