Library Items

Disaster 101: Your Guide to Extreme Weather Preparation, Relief and Recovery [1]

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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]
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Public [3]
National (U.S.) [4]
International [5]
Disasters [6]
- Read more about Disaster 101: Your Guide to Extreme Weather Preparation, Relief and Recovery [1]
The Solutions Project’s Storybank [7]

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This multimedia resource is for journalists interested in covering community-led climate solutions. It features the stories of grassroots organizations that are working at the intersection of climate justice and other social challenges.

Useful Links [2]
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Public [3]
National (U.S.) [4]
Activism [8]
Climate Change [9]
Environmental Justice [10]
- Read more about The Solutions Project’s Storybank [7]
The Open Notebook's Science Writers Database [11]

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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.

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Public [3]
National (U.S.) [4]
International [5]
Journalism & Media [12]
Science [13]
- Read more about The Open Notebook's Science Writers Database [11]
Earth HQ [14]

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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.) [4]
International [5]
Climate Change [9]
Disasters [6]
Journalism & Media [12]
People & Population [15]
Technology [16]
- Read more about Earth HQ [14]
PHMSA Emergency Response Guidebook (ERG) [17]

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The ERG is a potential life-saving tool you can keep on your cell phone. It gives you the 4-digit ID Number for a chemical name, which allows you to find the 3-digit Action Guide number for detailed information about how a spill should be handled.

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Public [3]
National (U.S.) [4]
Chemicals [18]
Disasters [6]
Government [19]
Health [20]
- Read more about PHMSA Emergency Response Guidebook (ERG) [17]
Renewables on the Rise Dashboard [21]

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Journalists can use this online tool from Environment America and PIRG to track the growth of clean energy state-by-state for wind and solar energy; electric vehicle sales and charging ports; energy savings; and battery storage capacity. Data sources and methodology are provided.

Useful Links [2]
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Public [3]
National (U.S.) [4]
Activism [8]
- Read more about Renewables on the Rise Dashboard [21]
Curso de Intercambio Virtual Fomenta la "Competencia Global" Para Estudiantes de Periodismo [22]

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Cuando los programas de intercambio para estudiantes de periodismo fueron cancelados a causa del COVID 19, el personal docente de dos importantes universidades – una en Estados Unidos y otra en Colombia- recurrió a su creatividad, mediante la construcción de un escenario de intercambio virtual colaborativo sobre asuntos medioambientales de preocupación para ambos países. La EJ Academy explica el funcionamiento de dicho intercambio y augura programas similares en el futuro.

SEJ Espanol [23]
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Public [3]
National (U.S.) [4]
Great Lakes (IL IN MI MN OH WI) [24]
South America [25]
Journalism & Media [12]
- Read more about Curso de Intercambio Virtual Fomenta la "Competencia Global" Para Estudiantes de Periodismo [22]
Realtime Climate [26]

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Climate Central's Realtime Climate tool will automatically send alerts when unusual weather, tides and other climate phenomena are detected in your area of the US — including information about the climate change context, when it's most relevant and useful, particularly for journalists.

Useful Links [2]
Visibility:
Public [3]
National (U.S.) [4]
Climate Change [9]
Journalism & Media [12]
- Read more about Realtime Climate [26]
The Uproot Project [27]

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This Grist-supported network is for journalists of color who cover environmental issues, or aspire to. Open to journalists and students of all races, ethnicities and backgrounds, but with a primary directive to grow the careers of journalists of color and to expand diversity in newsrooms, especially those covering communities disproportionately affected by the climate emergency.

Useful Links [2]
Visibility:
Public [3]
National (U.S.) [4]
Climate Change [9]
Diversity [28]
Environmental Health [29]
Environmental Justice [10]
Health [20]
Journalism & Media [12]
People & Population [15]
- Read more about The Uproot Project [27]
Resource Watch [30]

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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.) [4]
International [5]
Technology [16]
- Read more about Resource Watch [30]

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