Katharina Nickoleit is a freelance radio and TV journalist specialized in environmental and Global Health topics.

After graduating from high school at Schloss Salem School and completing her law studies, Katharina Nickoleit (born 1974) decided that legal German and files were not her thing and completed a postgraduate course in journalism at the University of Mainz. Since 2003 she has been working as a freelance journalist, mainly for WDR, Deutschlandradio and ARD. Her main topics are globalization, climate and health in Asia, Latin America and Africa. Environmental issues are addressed in Germany too. Katharina Nickoleit received several research grants and awards for her work. Katharina Nickoleit lives with her partner and their son in Wuppertal, Germany.

 

Katharina Nickoleit

Basic information

Name
Katharina Nickoleit
Title
Journalist
Expertise
Environment, health in the Global South
Country
Germany
City
Wuppertal

Supported projects

Food vs. Nature: How Agriculture Puts Protected Ecosystems at Risk in Europe

  • Agriculture
  • Environment

BRUSSELS – The link between agriculture and nature is a contested arena in Europe. Over the past decades, the European Union has become one of the leading producers and exporters of agricultural products in the world. But this has come at a great cost for Europe’s ecosystems.

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Still Waters Run Deep

  • Energy
  • Environment
  • Industry

ELSDORF – 2030 marks the end of lignite mining in the Rhenish mining area. But what happens to the Garzweiler, Hambach and Inden opencast mines once the excavators have been dismantled? Turning the brown coal holes into a lake district sounds easier than it is.

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Green Veins of Europe: Ecocorridors and the European Green Deal

  • Environment

EUROPE - From red deer traces and half wild horses, to ecoducts and tree plantations, till mountain ranges and free flowing rivers. They have something in common: these are the roads and routes that nature uses. 

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