Raising Elijah

September 15, 2012–

SEJ Members Publish E-books, Change Jobs, Gain Awards

September 15, 2012–

SEJournal Summer/Fall 2012, Vol. 22 No. 2,3

September 15, 2012–In this issue: How Carson's Silent Spring shapes modern environmentalism; Florida's lost wildlife highways; an interview with San Antonio Express-News enviro-adventure reporter Colin McDonald; bridging the journalism/science divide; SEJ Awards winners; EPA's ECHO database, your two-faced best friend; and more.

The Carson Effect

September 15, 2012–In this excerpt from the latest issue of SEJournal (Summer/Fall), William Souder explains how Rachel Carson's seminal 1962 work Silent Spring shaped (and still shapes) modern environmentalism (from his new book, On a Farther Shore: The Life and Legacy of Rachel Carson).

The Scent of Scandal

September 15, 2012–

The Wild Life of Our Bodies

September 15, 2012–

Traveling Florida’s Lost Wildlife Highways

September 15, 2012–In this excerpt from the latest issue of SEJournal (Summer/Fall), freelance writer and photographer Roger Archibald tells the tale of the 2012 Florida Wildlife Corridor Expedition, which sought to reclaim a tenuous natural migratory route that the state’s surviving endemic wildlife might once again follow.

Winners Named in SEJ Awards’ New Photo Category

September 15, 2012–

Data Missing on Farm Use of Antibiotics; Health Study Hindered

September 5, 2012–A new report by Sabrina Tavernise in the New York Times points out that basic data about the routine use of antibiotics in farm animals (which consume some 80 percent of the nation's antibiotics) is largely missing and that a ferocious germ resistant to many types of antibiotics had increased tenfold on chicken breasts.

Facing Budget Cuts, NOAA Scales Back Collection of Greenhouse Gas Data

September 5, 2012–The existing climate research budget crunch may be made worse by across-the-board cuts mandated if Congress and the White House fail to reach a budget agreement by January 2013.