Introduction: the media politics of environmental risk -- Mapping environmental risks: TV news, lay voices and the visualisation of environmental risks -- Interest group strategies and journalistic norsms -- Claims-making and frming in British newspaper coverage of the brent spar controversy -- The burrowers: news about bodies, tunnels and green guerrillas -- Denaturalising risk politics: Environmental pressure politics and the risk society -- Industry causes lung cancer -- The media timescapes of BSE news -- Reporting risks -- Bodies, risks and public environments: Selling control -- Exclusionary environments -- The female body at risk -- Landscapes of fear: public places, fear of crime and the media -- Globalising environments at risk: Communicating climate change through the media -- Global citizenship, the environment and the media -- Mediating the risks of virtual environments

1. Mass Media and Environment