Publication Items

#SEJ2026 Live — Coverage of Conference Tours [1]

SEJournal is providing full coverage of all eight of the day-long tours from the annual Society of Environmental Journalists’ conference, April 15-18, in Chicago. In Part 2, contributors Meg Duff [2], Nathaniel Eisen [3], Nhung Nguyen [4] and Marlowe Starling [5] provide detailed reports from tours focused on the transitioning steel industry, microgrids, climate-friendly crop practices and evolving Midwestern agricultural systems.

Also check out the first round of tour coverage and read all the great work [1] from our team of early-career freelance journalists, part of SEJournal’s live #SEJ2026 Live conference reporting.

SEJ Publication Types:
SEJ News [6]
Topics on the Beat:
Activism [7]
Agriculture [8]
Air [9]
Biodiversity [10]
Chemicals [11]
Climate Change [12]
Consumer [13]
Economy & Business [14]
Energy & Fuel [15]
Environmental Health [16]
Environmental Justice [17]
Environmental Politics [18]
Environmental Studies [19]
Food [20]
Forests [21]
Government [22]
Health [23]
Infrastructure [24]
Journalism & Media [25]
Laws & Regulations [26]
Natural Resources [27]
People & Population [28]
Planning & Growth [29]
Policy [30]
Pollution [31]
Science [32]
Technology [33]
Transportation [34]
Waste [35]
Water & Oceans [36]
Wildlife [37]
Region:
National (U.S.) [38]
Great Lakes (IL IN MI MN OH WI) [39]
Visibility:
Public [40]
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War and Pizza — #SEJ2026 in Chicago [41]

Nearly as rejuvenating as attending the Society of Environmental Journalists’ annual gathering is perusing the après-conference spoof by contributing quipster David Helvarg. While it seemed he was mostly there unabashedly preselling his forthcoming book, he somehow found time to send up SEJ’s earnest sessions, lambast its blown-up tours and rib its beat dinners. Read his Chicago roast.

SEJ Publication Types:
SEJ News [6]
Topics on the Beat:
Agriculture [8]
Air [9]
Chemicals [11]
Climate Change [12]
Economy & Business [14]
Energy & Fuel [15]
Environmental Health [16]
Environmental Justice [17]
Environmental Politics [18]
Fish & Fisheries [42]
Government [22]
Health [23]
Journalism & Media [25]
Natural Resources [27]
Policy [30]
Pollution [31]
Science [32]
Waste [35]
Water & Oceans [36]
Region:
National (U.S.) [38]
Great Lakes (IL IN MI MN OH WI) [39]
Visibility:
Public [40]
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Database Details Planetary Asset — Canada’s Forests [43]

They’re a carbon sink, a playground and a major market, but also a source of smoke pollution and pest infestation. Millions of acres of Canadian forest are a big North American story, and the latest Reporter’s Toolbox points you to a central data source that can help quantify, analyze and visualize the numbers and see the proverbial forest for the trees.

SEJ Publication Types:
Reporters Toolbox [44]
Topics on the Beat:
Agriculture [8]
Air [9]
Climate Change [12]
Economy & Business [14]
Energy & Fuel [15]
Environmental Health [16]
Environmental Politics [18]
Forests [21]
Natural Resources [27]
Policy [30]
Pollution [31]
Region:
National (U.S.) [38]
International [45]
Canada [46]
Visibility:
Public [40]
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Helping Students Learn the Hard Work of Journalism [47]

Two flourishing nonprofit programs teach young writers the basics of journalism and environmental reporting — mentoring and paying students, who publish enterprise and public records stories, personal essays and narrative features. Read more about Florida Student News Watch with CD Davidson-Hiers [47] and Indiana’s climate solutions-focused Youth Environmental Press Team with Jim Poyser [48], in the new EJ Academy.

SEJ Publication Types:
EJ Academy [49]
Topics on the Beat:
Agriculture [8]
Climate Change [12]
Government [22]
Water & Oceans [36]
Wildlife [37]
Region:
National (U.S.) [38]
Great Lakes (IL IN MI MN OH WI) [39]
Great Plains (IA KS ND NE MO SD) [50]
Mountain West (CO ID MT NV UT WY) [51]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [52]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [53]
Visibility:
Public [40]
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The Joy of Rewilding [54]

Rewilding is a global movement to restore natural processes and boost biodiversity. It’s also the name of an online magazine launched by journalists Kat Tancock and Domini Clark. Their goal? To expose more people to the concept and inspire action through positive storytelling. Co-founder Tancock on the magazine’s editorial vision, opportunities for freelancers to contribute and what rewilding means to her.

SEJ Publication Types:
Features [55]
Topics on the Beat:
Activism [7]
Agriculture [8]
Biodiversity [10]
Climate Change [12]
Environmental Health [16]
Journalism & Media [25]
Science [32]
Wildlife [37]
Region:
National (U.S.) [38]
Great Lakes (IL IN MI MN OH WI) [39]
International [45]
Canada [46]
Mexico [56]
Europe [57]
Visibility:
Public [40]
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Top Environment and Energy Topics To Watch in 2026 [58]

Explore our 10th annual Journalists’ Guide to Environment + Energy, as we scour the beat to identify 15 top stories to put on your radar for 2026. Our updated format for the special report provides a quick read and a broad scope — with insights on climate change and environmental justice, bird and insect declines, data centers and deep sea mining, deregulation and PFAS and much more. Get started here [58].

SEJ Publication Types:
SEJ News [6]
Topics on the Beat:
Activism [7]
Agriculture [8]
Air [9]
Biodiversity [10]
Chemicals [11]
Climate Change [12]
Disasters [59]
Economy & Business [14]
Energy & Fuel [15]
Environmental Health [16]
Environmental Justice [17]
Environmental Politics [18]
Environmental Studies [19]
Fish & Fisheries [42]
Forests [21]
Government [22]
Health [23]
Infrastructure [24]
Journalism & Media [25]
Laws & Regulations [26]
Military [60]
Natural Resources [27]
Policy [30]
Pollution [31]
Science [32]
Technology [33]
Waste [35]
Water & Oceans [36]
Wildlife [37]
Region:
National (U.S.) [38]
Alaska and Hawaii [61]
California [62]
Great Lakes (IL IN MI MN OH WI) [39]
Great Plains (IA KS ND NE MO SD) [50]
Mid-Atlantic (DC DE MD PA VA WV) [63]
Mountain West (CO ID MT NV UT WY) [51]
Northeast (CT MA ME NH NJ NY RI VT) [64]
Northwest (OR WA) [65]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [52]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [53]
International [45]
Visibility:
Public [40]
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From Words to Frames — Writer Learns To Wield Power of Visual Storytelling [66]

When writer Gulnaz Khan saw how global warming drove both natural loss and spiritual breaks for surrounding human communities, it started her on a PBS documentary series exploring sacred sites around the world threatened by climate change. But she also undertook another odyssey, one from writer to visual storyteller. What she learned on her journey from text to screen, in the new EJ InSight column.

SEJ Publication Types:
EJ InSight [67]
Topics on the Beat:
Agriculture [8]
Biodiversity [10]
Climate Change [12]
Environmental Health [16]
Environmental Justice [17]
Food [20]
Forests [21]
Government [22]
Health [23]
Journalism & Media [25]
Natural Resources [27]
People & Population [28]
Pollution [31]
Religion, Faith and Spirituality [68]
Science [32]
Waste [35]
Water & Oceans [36]
Wildlife [37]
Region:
International [45]
Africa [69]
Asia [70]
South America [71]
Visibility:
Public [40]
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Orphans and Zombies — Reporting on Abandoned Oil and Gas Wells Across the Country [72]

For more than a century, oil and gas companies have been drilling — and abandoning — wells across the country, leaving hundreds of thousands to potentially leak pollutants into the air, water and soil. Climate and environment reporter Martha Pskowski looks at how funding and regulatory issues are impacting efforts to identify and plug these wells, and offers resources for drilling into their story.

SEJ Publication Types:
Features [55]
Topics on the Beat:
Agriculture [8]
Air [9]
Climate Change [12]
Economy & Business [14]
Energy & Fuel [15]
Environmental Health [16]
Government [22]
Health [23]
Journalism & Media [25]
Laws & Regulations [26]
Natural Resources [27]
Policy [30]
Pollution [31]
Technology [33]
Water & Oceans [36]
Wildlife [37]
Region:
National (U.S.) [38]
Great Lakes (IL IN MI MN OH WI) [39]
Great Plains (IA KS ND NE MO SD) [50]
Mid-Atlantic (DC DE MD PA VA WV) [63]
Mountain West (CO ID MT NV UT WY) [51]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [53]
Visibility:
Public [40]
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The Cost of Losing Our ‘Sacred Acres’ [73]

In “We Are Eating the Earth,” author Michael Grunwald explains masterfully how good intentions have led us astray over our food system and climate change, writes BookShelf editor Tom Henry. Whether it’s our obsession with meat, myths about biofuels and regenerative agriculture, or feel-good ideas based on bad science, Grunwald argues it’s time for a fundamental shift in values.

SEJ Publication Types:
BookShelf [74]
Topics on the Beat:
Agriculture [8]
Climate Change [12]
Consumer [13]
Economy & Business [14]
Food [20]
Natural Resources [27]
Policy [30]
Science [32]
Region:
National (U.S.) [38]
International [45]
Visibility:
Public [40]
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At COP30, Amazon Rainforest Is Center Stage for Climate Catastrophe [75]

With the COP30 U.N. climate talks starting this week in Brazil, in the heart of the Amazon River basin, our Issue Backgrounder points out that now is a critical time to consider a central question: Is the mandate to save the immense Amazon rainforest as a way to combat climate change being irretrievably undermined by the vast, destructive forces bringing about the rainforest’s rapid destruction?

SEJ Publication Types:
Backgrounders [76]
Topics on the Beat:
Agriculture [8]
Climate Change [12]
Environmental Health [16]
Environmental Politics [18]
Forests [21]
Natural Resources [27]
Water & Oceans [36]
Region:
International [45]
South America [71]
Visibility:
Public [40]
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