Jenn Thornhill Verma is an award-winning investigative journalist covering the ocean, fisheries, biodiversity and climate change. As Canada’s first Pulitzer Center Ocean Reporting Network Fellow, she led The Globe and Mail team to gold in Environmental and Climate Change reporting at the 2025 Canadian Association of Journalists awards. She is also the co-recipient of gold awards for Best Column (Digital Publishing Awards, 2024) and Business reporting (Atlantic Journalism Awards, 2024) for The Indy’s Seasplainer series with Leila Beaudoin and Best Cover (AJAs, 2020) for her landscape art. A fellow of the Royal Canadian Geographical Society and a Canadian Fellow of The Explorers Club, Jenn is also an alumna of the Oxford Climate Journalism Network, a visual artist and filmmaker. She is from Corner Brook and now lives in Ottawa with her family.
Ottawa’s ‘historic return of the commercial Northern cod fishery’ sidesteps science that finds all populations of Atlantic cod in Canadian waters are historically low
News that Northern cod likely moved out of the critical zone for the first time in decades could be called historic, but all Atlantic cod populations in the Northwest Atlantic ocean remain historically low