Mongabay contributing editor Malavika Vyawahare has been awarded a 2025 SEAL environmental journalism award, which recognizes reporters covering the complexities of the environment and climate. “This award is a huge encouragement for me, as a journalist and as an exhausted toddler mom,” Vyawahare said. “It is also a recognition of the kind of work Mongabay makes possible, the space it creates for its staff and contributors to write meaningful stories.” The annual award is presented by SEAL (Sustainability, Environmental Achievement & Leadership), a U.S.-based environmental advocacy organization. Vyawahare is the latest Mongabay journalist or contributor to win the award; previous winners include Spoorthy Raman in 2023, Karla Mendes and Basten Gokkon in 2022, and Mongabay founder and CEO Rhett A. Butler in 2020. “Mongabay is an outstanding publication whose writers have made our finalist list for multiple years running,” Safa Bee Wesley, impact lead at SEAL Awards, told Mongabay by email. “Malavika’s writing in particular is noteworthy for her ability to flip between a diverse set of topics (fossil fuels and renewables one moment, toxic chemicals in breastmilk the next, the impact of trade on deforestation in a third moment), and she is able to translate complex concepts from scientific language into comprehensible explanations that any reader can digest, while retaining an elevated and authoritative voice.” Vyawahare, who divides her time between La Réunion and India, currently writes and edits for Mongabay’s Africa team. “Right now, we are knee-deep in figuring out what ‘just energy’ means for the continent’s residents,”…This article was originally published on Mongabay

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