‘Detailed and Determined Scoop’: DeSmog Wins Association of British Science Writers’ Award
onJun 30, 2026 @ 04:10 PDT
DeSmog reporter Clare Carlile (centre) and Unearthed co-editor Crispin Dowler (left) collect ’News Item of the Year' at the Association of British Science Writers’ awards at the Royal Society, London. Credit: Mark Lewis Photography
DeSmog has won ‘News Item of the Year’ award from the Association of British Science Writers (ABSW), for its work exposing environmental harms in the UK.
Clare Carlile received the prize with Greenpeace’s investigative team at Unearthed for a joint investigation published on July 2025, which showed that regulators had cancelled over 10,000 water quality tests following staff shortages.
