Dahr Jamail, an award-winning journalist and mountaineer who reports on climate change and the environment, will be speaking in Hoquiam on Thursday evening at an event sponsored by the Grays Harbor Institute.

Jamail is a staff reporter for Truthout, an online, progressive news organization. The presentation is at 7 p.m. at Events on Emerson, 212 Fourth St. in Hoquiam.

His book “The End of Ice: Bearing Witness and Finding Meaning in the Path of Climate Disruption” was published in January. He has been frequently interviewed on TV and radio programs including Democracy Now, Alternative Radio, The Young Turks and NPR. He also has published articles in The Nation, The Progressive and other media.

Jamail also spent more than a year reporting from Iraq, in the early stages of war there, and more than a decade in other countries in the Middle East. Along with William Rivers Pitt, he co-authored a book titled “The Mass Destruction of Iraq: Why It Is Happening and Who Is Responsible.”

According to a press release from the institute, “Jamail shares the thrills of climbing Alaska’s glaciers, the raw wildness of ice and mountain, and the impact of rising temperatures on mountain and forest systems. These encounters were ‘far more difficult to deal with than the years I spent reporting from war-torn Iraq,’ said Jamail, who also said he thinks of the Earth as ‘most likely in hospice.’”