Library Items

GIJN Reporting Guide for Landfill Methane Emissions and Solutions [1]

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This Global Investigative Journalism Network guide, published July 30, 2025, lists available resources and questions to ask about methane emissions from landfills and how to reduce them.

Useful Links [2]
Visibility:
Public [3]
International [4]
Climate Change [5]
Waste [6]
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Disaster 101: Your Guide to Extreme Weather Preparation, Relief and Recovery [7]

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Grist has published an adaptable toolkit on disasters including hurricanes, winter storms, flash floods, tornadoes, wildfires and heat waves. It includes several guides for media and community organizations that can be customized for your local audience.

Useful Links [2]
Visibility:
Public [3]
National (U.S.) [8]
International [4]
Disasters [9]
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The Open Notebook's Science Writers Database [10]

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This database is a free, public tool to connect science writers of all kinds and help them diversify their networks. You can browse or use the search, sort, and filter tools. Journalists, writers, editors and communicators who cover science, health, environment or technology are invited to join.

Useful Links [2]
Visibility:
Public [3]
National (U.S.) [8]
International [4]
Journalism & Media [11]
Science [12]
- Read more about The Open Notebook's Science Writers Database [10]
Earth HQ [13]

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Latest news, science and solutions from across the globe in real time with interactive maps. A joint project of Global Commons Alliance, Resource Watch, earth.nullschool.net and NowThis Earth, powered by environmental news site Mongabay.

Useful Links [2]
Visibility:
Public [3]
National (U.S.) [8]
International [4]
Climate Change [5]
Disasters [9]
Journalism & Media [11]
People & Population [14]
Technology [15]
- Read more about Earth HQ [13]
Resource Watch [16]

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World Resources Institute offers journalists comprehensive data and maps on population, crops, droughts, fires and other natural disasters, oil spills, air quality, poverty, coastal flooding, power plants, human migration, deforestation, coral reef bleaching and more. Explore and visualize 260+ data sets, overlay data, create maps, visualizations and charts to embed in articles.

Useful Links [2]
Visibility:
Public [3]
National (U.S.) [8]
International [4]
Technology [15]
- Read more about Resource Watch [16]
Hostwriter [17]

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Hostwriter is an open network that helps journalists to easily collaborate across borders. They connect thousands of journalists from 135 countries to seek and offer help, whether in the form of local advice, story collaboration or accommodation. And they award cash in two categories for the annual #HostwriterPrize.

Useful Links [2]
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Public [3]
International [4]
Journalism & Media [11]
People & Population [14]
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Notes for Additional Climate Media [18]

Climate media to add to list

John Abraham and Dana Nuccitelli in the Guardian
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2013... [19]

climate nexus
http://climatenexus.org/ [20]

climate communication
http://www.climatecommunication.org/ [21]

Skeptical Science
Visibility:
Public [3]
International [4]
Climate Change [5]
Journalism & Media [11]
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SEJ Member Spotlight: Wendee Holtcamp [22]

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Houston-based freelance writer and photographer Wendee Holtcamp has covered conservation, adventure travel, environmental issues and science for magazines and websites since 1997. She offers an online writing class, teaching aspiring and established writers everything from improving one's writing through observation journaling to crafting killer queries to the business end of building a successful and lucrative freelance career. Next class starts June 2.
Visibility:
Public [3]
International [4]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [23]
Wildlife [24]
Water & Oceans [25]
Transportation [26]
Science [12]
Journalism & Media [11]
Environmental Health [27]
Biodiversity [28]
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Reporter's Toolbox: Covering Tsunamis [29]

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Tsunamis are urgent news when the warning sounds. When a big one catches people unprepared, the disaster can be huge. But there are further stories about planning, preparation, disaster-proofing, recovery, and more.

Reporting Tools [30]
Visibility:
Public [3]
International [4]
Disasters [9]
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Reporter's Toolbox: Nuclear Energy [31]

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The use of nuclear energy to generate power has been a major policy debate for decades. While the best decisions may be based on facts, many risk calculations are actually values choices. Here [31] are some of the best sources for both facts and opinion.
Reporting Tools [30]
Visibility:
Public [3]
International [4]
Nuclear Power & Radiation [32]
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