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.

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National (U.S.) [4]
International [5]
Disasters [6]
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Earth HQ [7]

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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.

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National (U.S.) [4]
International [5]
Climate Change [8]
Disasters [6]
Journalism & Media [9]
People & Population [10]
Technology [11]
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PHMSA Emergency Response Guidebook (ERG) [12]

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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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National (U.S.) [4]
Chemicals [13]
Disasters [6]
Government [14]
Health [15]
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Climate Reporting Master Class [16]

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This free, online program from Climate Matters in the Newsroom is designed to help journalists up their game in incorporating climate change into their reporting on every beat.

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Climate Change [8]
Disasters [6]
Energy & Fuel [17]
Environmental Justice [18]
Journalism & Media [9]
Water & Oceans [19]
- Read more about Climate Reporting Master Class [16]
Environmental Books by SEJ Members (2018) [20]

Are you an SEJ member who's authored, co-authored or edited a non-fiction or fiction environmental book (published in 2018) you'd like included on this page? Documentaries are also welcome. Please send the following to web content manager Cindy MacDonald [21]:
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Biodiversity [22]
Climate Change [8]
Disasters [6]
Journalism & Media [9]
Natural Resources [23]
Science [24]
Water & Oceans [19]
Wildlife [25]
- Read more about Environmental Books by SEJ Members (2018) [20]
Tipsheet: Disasters and Extreme Weather (SEJ Workshop at New Orleans Annual Conference, Sep 2014) [26]

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Here you'll find essential resources for disaster reporting, originally prepared for the SEJ workshop, "Disasters and Extreme Weather: Gathering the News, Keeping Safe," September 3, 2014, in New Orleans. Updated August 25, 2017.

Reporting Tools [27]
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Disasters [6]
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Topic on the Beat: Disasters [28]

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See top disaster stories from SEJournal.

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Disasters [6]
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Dam Secrecy Endangers Lives, Property of US Public in Many States [29]

What You Don't Know Might Kill You

Tens of thousands of U.S. citizens are at risk from potential dam disasters, yet state and federal agencies hold to a policy that amounts to "out of sight, out of mind."
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Water & Oceans [19]
Planning & Growth [30]
People & Population [10]
Disasters [6]
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Toolbox: Data Resources for Dams, Impoundments and Levees [31]

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Water control structures — dams, locks, weirs, reservoirs, impoundments, and levees — are a gold mine of environmental stories. They affect not only the quality of life in human communities, but also the integrity of ecosystems. There are a variety of databases and data resources that can help reporters get a better grip on the many stories that center on dams and levees.

Reporting Tools [27]
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Public [3]
National (U.S.) [4]
Disasters [6]
Fish & Fisheries [32]
Natural Resources [23]
Water & Oceans [19]
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SEJ Member Spotlight: Elizabeth McGowan [33]

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SEJ member Elizabeth H. McGowan and her InsideClimate News colleagues Lisa Song and David Hasemyer won the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting for their “The Dilbit Disaster” entry, an investigative piece uncovering what really happened when millions of gallons of tar sands oil from Canada poured into Michigan’s Kalamazoo River after a pipe burst. They were also named as a finalist in the Environmental Reporting category of the 2012 Scripps Howard Awards competition; earned an honorable mention in the 2012 John B. Oakes Award contest presented by the Columbia University School of Journalism; and won the 2012 James Aronson Award for Social Justice Journalism presented by Hunter College.

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Journalism & Media [9]
Energy & Fuel [17]
Disasters [6]
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What You Don't Know Might Kill You

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