Deborah Zabarenko

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Position: Environment Correspondent

I started with Reuters in 1986 in New York City, moving to Washington DC two years later. I've covered the Winter Olympics in Calgary and Salt Lake City, a couple wars, the State Department, White House, Pentagon, several long trials and a presidential sex scandal. Since 2006, I've been reporting on the environment and climate change.

Articles

Record-high U.S. temps outpace record lows - study November 12, 06:40pm EST

By Deborah Zabarenko, Environment Correspondent WASHINGTON, Nov 12 (Reuters) - In another sign of a warming planet, there were twice as many record-high temperatures in the United States as record lows over the last decade, climate scientists reported ... Full Article

Record-high U.S. temps outpace record lows: study

Brown pelican no longer endangered: U.S.

U.S. climate envoy takes aim at developing nations

Orthodox patriarch meets Obama on U.S. visit

Blog Posts

The view from the Arctic: on Sarah Palin and caribou soup

As the world looks toward Copenhagen's climate change meeting in December, a delegation of native Arctic women talk about how global warming has been felt in their northern villages, and one takes aim at Sarah Palin's "drill baby drill" mantra. Full Article | Comments [1]

Orthodox Patriarch Bartholomew meets Obama on U.S. visit

Greek Orthodox Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew, the "green patriarch" who leads 300 million Orthodox Christians, spoke with President Barack Obama on Tuesday about the fight against climate change. Full Article

The golden, melting, re-freezing and ultimately disappearing snows of Kilimanjaro

When Ernest Hemingway wrote "The Snows of Kilimanjaro" in the 1930s, he described the summit of that African mountain as "wide as all the world, great, high, and unbelievably white in the sun." It's still wide, but may not be white much longer, due to climate change. Full Article | Comments [8]