Survey Finds Little Early Improvement in Science-Meddling Under Obama

03/10/2010 – George Washington University's Project on Scientific Knowledge and Public Policy (SKAPP) followed up with 37 scientists at 13 federal agencies to see if conditions had improved at their agencies post-Bush. Survey says: Not really, or not yet.

Study Shows Managed Turf Is Net Greenhouse Gas Loser

02/03/2010 – A study by Univ. of California-Irvine researchers has found that while grass itself acted as a carbon sink, when other factors are taken into account — fuel burned to maintain the lawn, emissions from fertilizer spread to help it grow, etc. — four times as much carbon was emitted than was absorbed.

AAAS Meeting Offers Chance To Catch Enviro Scientists

01/20/2010 – Dozens of sessions on environmental topics are on the agenda at the 2010 annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, to be held Feb. 18-22 in San Diego.

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

01/15/2010 –

White House Moves To Reinstate Bush-Suppressed Climate Reports

01/13/2010 – 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

11/18/2009 – A new tool makes finding, understanding, and communicating science easier for environmental reporters.

Is Your Community Ready for Hurricane Season?

08/19/2009 – 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

07/29/2009 – 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?

07/15/2009 –

New Jersey DEP Proposes Gag Order on Science Info

06/03/2009 – 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.