Honoring Exceptional Environmental Journalism

The Grantham Prize is a US$75,000 annual prize awarded to a work of non-fiction focused on a significant environmental topic. Since 2006, the prize has made a difference in the lives of over eighty journalists by bringing greater attention to their reporting, inspiring their continued coverage of critical environmental issues, and encouraging their editors to support this type of coverage.

2011 Winner: Seeing The Wood

"Winning the Grantham Prize was tremendously gratifying and of course hugely encouraging of my writing on the environment. With all those powerful interests stacked against conservation and sustainability, it makes a very nice change to have such heavyweights as the Granthams on the environmental side of the argument."

-- James Astill of The Economist, 2011 Grantham Prize Winner

2010 Winner: Sea Sick: The Global Ocean in Crisis

"The stunning thing about the Grantham Prize is that it rewards bold reporting on hidden yet critical environmental issues. In an era characterized by strident opinion backed by little research and less understanding, that makes the prize not only counter-cultural but visionary." 

-- Alanna Mitchell, 2010 Grantham Prize Winner

2009 Winners: The Smokestack Effect, USA TODAY

"The Grantham Prize - and the example set by others who received it - has convinced editors that the environment is important, and that we can cover it in a way that has a significant impact."

--Blake Morrison and Brad Heath, 2009 Grantham Prize Co-Winners

2008 Winners: Choking on Growth, The New York Times

"The Grantham Prize rewards expensive, time-consuming, out-of-the mainstream journalism whose importance will be most recognized in 20 or 30 years, when the world asks itself, 'What were we thinking back then?' A prestigious prize for environmental reporting makes such good sense."

--Glenn Kramon, assistant managing editor for enterprise reporting, The New York Times

2007 Winners: Altered Oceans, The Los Angeles Times

"I want to give special thanks to Jeremy and Hannelore Grantham for elevating the visibility of environmental reporting in newsrooms around the country -- places where it doesn't always get its due respect."

-- Kenneith Weiss, 2007 Grantham Prize co-winner

2006 Winners: Toxic Legacy, The Record

"Beyond the very pleasant motivation that comes from winning, the exposure to so many environmental experts and others at the seminars has significantly improved my own understanding of the underlying issues, parochial and global."

-- Tim Nostrand, investigations editor, The Record, and 2006 Grantham Prize co-winner