From four-time Pulitzer Prize finalist comes an investigation into our rapidly warming world and how these climate shifts are affecting the Charleston shoreline. No strangers to copious amounts of water in the Lowcountry, or stiflingly high temperatures, Charlestonians are eager to hear how these two occurrences are affecting our city in the long term. Tony Bartelme’s perspective: one day, Charleston will be under water. Veteran journalist of The Post and Courier, Tony Bartelme joins us to share the reality of how our changing global climate will impact the Lowcountry through his latest book, a collection of climate stories from around the globe and how we are all battling climate change together.
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About the Book
Tony Bartelme is one of the most accomplished local journalists working today, a four-time finalist for the Pulitzer Prize who has a three-decade record with The Post and Courier of uncovering major stories that are often hiding in plain sight. In his latest release, Tony Bartelme brings together his ground-breaking climate stories, from how melting ice in Greenland directly affects Charleston’s flooding to a scientist’s devotion to a rare marsh-dwelling bird. Through a lens trained on impacts in the Lowcountry, Bartelme’s stories take readers to New Orleans, the Sahara Desert and into the Gulf Stream. Each story has one thing in common: an aha moment that changes how readers view their rapidly changing world. Together, the stories in his latest book have won more than fourteen national journalism awards.
About the Author
Tony Bartelme, a four-time finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, is a senior projects reporter for The Post and Courier in Charleston, South Carolina. Over the past 30 years, his investigative work has exposed government corruption and explored diverse issues ranging from changes in ocean plankton to the global shortage of doctors. He has received the highest honors in journalism, including recent awards from the Gerald Loeb Foundation, Scripps Howard Foundation, Knight Science Journalism Program at M.I.T., American Geophysical Union, AAAS and Sigma Delta Chi. The S.C. Press Association has twice named him the state’s “Journalist of the Year.” In 2021, Columbia Journalism School awarded him the John Chancellor Award for Excellence in Journalism, which recognizes a journalist for cumulative achievements. Tony is the author or co-author of several books, including A Surgeon in the Village: An American Doctor Teaches Brain Surgery in Africa. He was awarded a Harvard Nieman Fellowship in 2010 and is a graduate of Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism.
