The Best Videojournalism Stories of 2009 ... Celebrating excellence in video, journalism and storytelling. View

Residents near downtown L.A. are afraid to drink their brown tap water, which contains harmful levels of dangerous chemicals. By antiquated Federal standards, it's considered safe. (NYT) View

Five years after the worst natural disaster in recent history, survivors reveal the strength of the human spirit in this series of short video stories. (MediaStorm) View

William Kamkwamba, 14, used scraps from a local junkyard in Malawi to provide electricity to his parents' home. Now he's celebrated internationally. (Toronto Star) View

Historic photos provide striking visual warnings that the Himalayan glaciers are melting at an alarming rate, threatening billions downstream. (Mediastorm) View

A Florida legend documents the beauty of his state's wild places with a World War II-era camera. (St. Petersburg Times) View

Audio ecologist Gordon Hempton records and preserves America's vanishing quiet spaces, and teaches how we can benefit from listening to the silence. (Newsweek) View

Video series confronts the nightmarish consequences of exposure to the toxic chemical defoliant sprayed by the U.S. during the Vietnam War. (Chicago Tribune) View

Rising sea levels threaten this impoverished Asian nation of 160 million people. A 6-part video story. (Politiken.dk) View

Global warming and coastal development are decimating Pacific leatherback populations. In Costa Rica, former poachers are giving them a chance at survival. (NYT) View

An investigation into the devastating environmental and social impacts of mountaintop-removal coal mining during the last two decades. (Yale Environment 360 / MediaStorm) View

Student-produced collection of multimedia stories explores the balance between man and nature in the Galapagos Islands. (UNC-Chapel Hill) View