纪录片类奥斯卡入围作品促使《大众科学》发表水力压裂文章

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《 गैसল্যান্ড 》是一部关于天然气水力压裂的纪录片,入围了周日第83届奥斯卡金像奖。该片已获得圣丹斯电影节奖,因为它揭示了快速增长的实践中可能存在的地下水污染和对居民的健康威胁,这种实践是将大量的化学物质和水泵入地下以压裂页岩并获取天然气。这部纪录片使全国关注纽约州水力压裂的待定扩张,那里的立法者和环境监管机构正在努力对水力压裂在广阔的马塞勒斯页岩地层中实施暂停令。

《大众科学》在电影在 HBO 播出前几个月就获得了预发行拷贝,这部电影说服我撰写了一篇专题文章,调查了水力压裂批评者和推广者的说法。在进行我自己的研究和采访之后,很明显,像大多数纪录片一样,《 गैसল্যান্ড 》揭示了令人惊讶的事实,放大了其中一些,并选择忽略了另外一些。无论如何,编剧和制片人乔什·福克斯所取得的成就,是揭开了保密的面纱,这种保密使大多数当地居民,更不用说科学家和监管机构,对水力压裂中使用的化学物质及其可能的影响一无所知。他确实让我走上了报道之路。


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Mark Fischetti has been a senior editor at 大众科学 for 17 years and has covered sustainability issues, including climate, weather, environment, energy, food, water, biodiversity, population, and more. He assigns and edits feature articles, commentaries and news by journalists and scientists and also writes in those formats. He edits History, the magazine's department looking at science advances throughout time. He was founding managing editor of two spinoff magazines: 大众科学 Mind and 大众科学 Earth 3.0. His 2001 freelance article for the magazine, "Drowning New Orleans," predicted the widespread disaster that a storm like Hurricane Katrina would impose on the city. His video What Happens to Your Body after You Die?, has more than 12 million views on YouTube. Fischetti has written freelance articles for the New York Times, Sports Illustrated, Smithsonian, Technology Review, Fast Company, and many others. He co-authored the book Weaving the Web with Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web, which tells the real story of how the Web was created. He also co-authored The New Killer Diseases with microbiologist Elinor Levy. Fischetti is a former managing editor of IEEE Spectrum Magazine and of Family Business Magazine. He has a physics degree and has twice served as the Attaway Fellow in Civic Culture at Centenary College of Louisiana, which awarded him an honorary doctorate. In 2021 he received the American Geophysical Union's Robert C. Cowen Award for Sustained Achievement in Science Journalism, which celebrates a career of outstanding reporting on the Earth and space sciences. He has appeared on NBC's Meet the Press, CNN, the History Channel, NPR News and many news radio stations. Follow Fischetti on X (formerly Twitter) @markfischetti

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