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Climate Journalist Learned How to Scuba Dive to Report on Ocean Research - Amanpour and Company PBS
As Brazil prepares to host the U.N. climate summit and a landmark report warns of the widespread death of coral reefs, one reporter has gone above and beyond in his attempts to understand what's happening to our natural world. Raymond Zhong is a climate and environment reporter for The New York Times, and a recent story proved more challenging than he expected.
Zhong sought to cover researchers who are hunting for invisible creatures that eat invisible food on the ocean floor. The reporter realized that, in order to do the story justice, he had to learn scuba diving. Zhong joins the show from London to explain what he found and what it's like to report from under the sea. - Originally aired on November 6, 2025.