Environmental reporting is at the center of the Deutsche Welle Media Forum now underway in Bonn

The BP oil disaster in the Gulf is just one of many environmental disasters with consequences that will last for decades. Media critics, meantime, have charged that journalists should have done more to alert the public to the threats associated with oil drilling in the Gulf. Environmental reporting - from sustainable energy supplies to environmental migration - are at the center of the Deutsche Welle Media Forum now underway in Bonn.