Alves, Daniel Durante PereiraNobre, Luiz Fernando Dal Pian2014-12-172011-12-292014-12-172011-02-17NOBRE, Luiz Fernando Dal Pian. Press Media and Environmental: a study of the coverage of a large fish kill along the Potengi river estuary, Natal-RN. 2011. 114 f. Dissertação (Mestrado em Meio Ambiente, Cultura e Desenvolvimento) - Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, Natal, 2011.https://repositorio.ufrn.br/jspui/handle/123456789/18212Environmental issues are becoming increasingly habitual to the media, particularly when calamities are involved. A feature of environmental disasters is that they disclose both environmental crises and the media limitation in reporting them. The research tried to contribute to the subject through the study of press media coverage of a large fish kill along an estuary in the State of Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil, in 2007. Thematic content analysis of newspaper reports identified the predominance of a superficial and denunciative coverage, lacking an educational perspective, and with little contribution to formation of a critical sense in readers. It also has identified the precarious treatment of those scientific concepts that could substantiate the actual causes of mortality of tons of aquatic faunaapplication/pdfAcesso AbertoJornalismo ambientalSustentabilidadeDivulgação científica e ambientalDesastre ambiental no estuário do rio PotengiMortandade de peixesEnvironmental journalismSustainabilityScientific and environmental disseminationEnvironmental disaster in Potengi river estuaryFish killmasterThesisCNPQ::CIENCIAS BIOLOGICAS::ECOLOGIA