Top Climate Change Stories From SEJournal
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A coal-fired power plant in Cheshire, Ohio, one of the largest in the nation. Greenhouse gas emissions from such facilities are inventoried by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, and that data can be used by journalists to report on local global warming stories. Photo: peggydavis66, Flickr Creative Commons. |
Updated March 2024
TipSheets
- How Ice Fishing Can Break the Ice on Your Local Climate Story
- Climate Health Impacts Can Multiply Local Story Possibilities
- Home Insurance Likely To Be a 2024 Climate Story Near You
- Heat Warning — Expect Extreme Temps To Be Local Story This Summer
- Reporters Can Address Uncertainty Over Local Risk of Rising Seas
- Bringing the Climate Crisis Story Home in 2023
- As Concern Over Methane Mounts, Emission Controls Yield Stories
- Extreme Rainfall Offers Journalists a Deluge of Environment, Climate Stories
Toolboxes
- Map Model Offers Up Data on Climate Disaster-Proofing
- New Climate Vulnerability Index Made for Local, Regional Stories
- Temperature Shift Tool May Help Journalists Clarify Climate Impacts
- New ‘Climate Trace’ Emissions Database Unveiled at COP27
- Fossil Fuels Registry Promises Global Warming Data. Does It Deliver?
- Newly Released Greenhouse Gas Inventory Offers Local Reporting Opportunities
- NOAA Data Portal Is a Great Home Port for Environmental Journalists
Backgrounders
- How To Power Through Your EPA Power Plant Rule Coverage
- Climate Crisis May Quickly Confront U.S., World With National Security Threats
- Climate Resiliency — When a Disaster Becomes a Cascade
- As Climate Change Brings Extreme Heat Events, Human Health Is a Casualty
Features & More
- Eat Local for Climate’s Sake? No, Eat Less Meat
- What Francis' Latest Climate Text Means for Upcoming UN Summit
- From TV Meteorologists, More Straight Talk About Climate Change
- Why Journalists Should Investigate the Twin Mental Health and Climate Crises
- Collaborative Journalism Project Reveals Inequities in Escaping Climate Change Hazards
- How — And Why —To Avoid Jargon When Covering Climate
- How Climate Attribution Science Went Mainstream, and What It Means
- Voices of Environmental Justice: What’s Ahead on Climate Justice, Climate Crisis Beat
- Freelance Files: Covering Food Systems — The Next Climate Action Battleground
- EJ Academy: Student Journalists Show the Way on Data With Methane Flaring Project
- EJ InSight: Capturing the Invisible — Photographing Extreme Heat Waves
- Inside Story: Reporter Unravels Complex Dynamic Between Climate Change and Nature
- Inside Story: Reporting on Storm Chasing’s ‘Human Side’ Hints at Climate’s Future
- BookShelf: ‘Carbon Colonialism’ Details the Exporting of Degradation, Climate Collapse
- BookShelf: Between the Lines — Author Explores Experience of Living Through Climate Change
WatchDogs
- Why Nobelists Are Joining the Fight Against Disinformation’s Dangers
- Disinformation Presents New Challenges to Environmental Journalists
- Climate Censorship, Part II, Courtesy Wall Street Journal’s Editorial Board
- Climate ‘Censorship’ Raised in Disinformation Fracas
Special Reports
- Climate Change Resource Guide
- Covering Climate Solutions
- Covering Your Climate: The South
- Covering Your Climate: The Emerald Corridor
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