Science Survey: Notes on Nature Can Be a Telling Scientific Record of Home

January 15, 2010–

White House Moves To Reinstate Bush-Suppressed Climate Reports

January 13, 2010–Katharine Jacobs, chair of the forthcoming National Academy of Sciences report on Adapting to the Impacts of Climate Change and a professor at the University of Arizona, will head up the effort to reinstate the National Assessment — with new emphasis on adaptation.

Toolbox: Google Scholar Opens Science to Everybody — Almost

November 18, 2009–A new tool makes finding, understanding, and communicating science easier for environmental reporters.

Is Your Community Ready for Hurricane Season?

August 19, 2009–SEJ has prepared a list of resources which may be helpful to reporters doing before, during and after-hurricane stories.

Toolbox: Website Offers Profusion of Government Science Links

July 29, 2009–In one handy spot, you'll find hundreds of rarely visited Web pages published by a vast variety of federal offices and programs doing science on environmental and other topics.

Media Critic: Who Will Do Regional or Local Investigations in Science?

July 15, 2009–

New Jersey DEP Proposes Gag Order on Science Info

June 3, 2009–The Newark Star-Ledger reports a move by a top New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection official to prevent public disclosure of scientific information that should be public until political appointees without science credentials and press officers have approved it.

NOAA To Swarm Around Tornadoes This Spring

April 29, 2009–Researchers, journalists in tow, will be chasing tornadoes around the central US in May and June to learn more about how tornadoes work, and better predict them and their paths.

SEJ Backs Free Publication of Tax-Funded Research

March 11, 2009–SEJ and science journalism groups expressed opposition to a bill that would reverse current policy of free publication of scientific results coming from federal agencies.

Toolbox: NOAA Upgrades Weather and Climate Data

February 18, 2009–Get detailed flood data that is almost real-time, provided by 4,260 monitors on waterways throughout the US, and the latest information on temperature, precipitation, wind, El Nino and La Nina, Pacific sea level, events in the stratosphere, and more.