2007 Grantham Prize Winners

The Los Angeles Times' five-part series, Altered Oceans, examined a profound disturbance in the ecology of the seas. The articles showed how man-made stresses are not merely sullying the Earth's oceans, but altering their basic composition and chemistry. As a result, numerous marine animals are in retreat and the oceans' most primitive life forms – algae, bacteria and jellyfish – are on the rise. [ More ]

What the Grantham Prize Jurors
Have to Say About the Winning Entries

Numerous authoritative reports in recent years have documented the degradation of the world's oceans, predicting a catastrophic decline in marine ecosystems and the fish species dependent on them unless urgent remedial measures get under way. [ More ]