Environmental Communication In the News

On the opening pages of Chapter 1, Cox notes that the environmental news appears regularly on the pages of major news magazines. Here's a list of just a few recent stories from the New York Times.

You see articles related to coal, owls, champagne, and an environmental disaster (the recent Gulf Coast Oil Spill).

Suppose we wanted to categorize or tag these and related stories. What tags would you use? What other types of environmental news stories, not depicted above, do you typically see? What tags would we give these stories?