Chris Mooney never expected to win a Pulitzer Prize during a global pandemic.Mooney, an environmental reporter for The Washington Post, was sitting at home last weekend when he got a callfrom his editor.The news: The Post had won a Pulitzer for explanatory reporting for the series "2°C: Beyond the Limit," whichlooked at places that have already warmed by 2 degrees Celsius.Mooney had come up with the idea for the series in late 2018. He had alsoworked on all 10 stories, which examined "hot spots" from Qatar to Siberia."I think there's one big message of the series: Climate change affectsdifferent places in really different ways," the 42-year-old reporter said in arecent phone interview.
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