Publication Items

Aussie Author’s Angry Look at ‘Crimes Against Nature’ [1]

A historical look at how profit and capitalism have ravaged the natural world is the subject of our new BookShelf review. Contributor Melody Kemp offers her take on award-winning Australian journalist Jeff Sparrow’s forthcoming volume, which explores the damage wrought by cars, roads and PR spin, as well as solutions suggested by models of Indigenous land management.

SEJ Publication Types:
BookShelf [2]
Topics on the Beat:
Activism [3]
Climate Change [4]
Economy & Business [5]
Environmental Politics [6]
Infrastructure [7]
Natural Resources [8]
People & Population [9]
Policy [10]
Pollution [11]
Transportation [12]
Region:
International [13]
Australia & Oceania [14]
Visibility:
Public [15]
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Climate Crisis May Quickly Confront U.S., World With National Security Threats [16]

The climate-security nexus has drawn attention from the Biden administration, but less so elsewhere, even as security experts worry about climate change as a threat multiplier that can exacerbate other causes of conflict. Our new Backgrounder explores these concerns, with a look at how the issue has played out in recent U.S. politics. Plus, seven global regions where climate change may worsen ongoing conflict.

SEJ Publication Types:
Backgrounders [17]
Topics on the Beat:
Climate Change [4]
Disasters [18]
Environmental Health [19]
Environmental Politics [6]
Food [20]
Government [21]
Military [22]
Natural Resources [8]
People & Population [9]
Policy [10]
Water & Oceans [23]
Region:
National (U.S.) [24]
International [13]
Mexico [25]
Africa [26]
Antarctica & Arctic [27]
Asia [28]
Central America & the Caribbean [29]
Middle East [30]
South America [31]
Visibility:
Public [15]
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Walking With the ‘Guardians of the Forest’ — Lessons From Coverage of Amazonian Fires [32]

Three teams of video journalists descended on the Brazilian Amazon amid some of its worst-ever fires to capture efforts of Indigenous rainforest “guardians” to protect it from destruction. They returned with award-winning reporting, but also a deeper understanding of the region and its people, and of how to bring the climate change story closer to home. They share their experiences, in the new EJ InSight.

SEJ Publication Types:
EJ InSight [33]
Topics on the Beat:
Activism [3]
Agriculture [34]
Biodiversity [35]
Climate Change [4]
Environmental Health [19]
Environmental Justice [36]
Environmental Politics [6]
Forests [37]
Journalism & Media [38]
Natural Resources [8]
People & Population [9]
Region:
International [13]
South America [31]
Visibility:
Public [15]
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Covering Climate Change in the Forgotten Places: A Moroccan Journalist’s View [39]

Environmental journalist Khalid Bencherif struggled to bring the emergent effects of climate change to the attention of local audiences facing many other pressing problems. So he told a powerful story grounded in personal experience, traveling to his childhood home in Morocco’s Tafilalet region, where deepening drought is hitting the oases hard and driving many villagers from their homes.

SEJ Publication Types:
Features [40]
Topics on the Beat:
Climate Change [4]
Environmental Health [19]
Environmental Justice [36]
Environmental Politics [6]
Government [21]
Journalism & Media [38]
Natural Resources [8]
People & Population [9]
Religion, Faith and Spirituality [41]
Science [42]
Technology [43]
Water & Oceans [23]
Region:
National (U.S.) [24]
Africa [26]
Middle East [30]
Visibility:
Public [15]
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Conflict Over Biden’s Offshore Wind Drive To Generate News in 2022 and Beyond [44]

Offshore wind, which some see as a panacea in the search for climate-friendly energy solutions, is getting a push from the Biden administration. But as noted in this week’s TipSheet, part of our 2022 Journalists’ Guide to Energy & Environment, there are numerous obstacles to the renewable power source, whether from states, coastal property owners and towns, fishing industry and even some environmentalists.

SEJ Publication Types:
TipSheet [45]
Topics on the Beat:
Activism [3]
Climate Change [4]
Economy & Business [5]
Energy & Fuel [46]
Environmental Politics [6]
Fish & Fisheries [47]
Government [21]
Infrastructure [7]
Journalism & Media [38]
Laws & Regulations [48]
Natural Resources [8]
Policy [10]
Water & Oceans [23]
Region:
National (U.S.) [24]
California [49]
Mid-Atlantic (DC DE MD PA VA WV) [50]
Northeast (CT MA ME NH NJ NY RI VT) [51]
Northwest (OR WA) [52]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [53]
Visibility:
Public [15]
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Grantee Suits Up To Ask If Honeybees Harm Native Species [54]

When Colorado-based freelance journalist Jennifer Oldham suited up in protective gear to investigate if commercial honeybee hives on public lands impact native bee populations, as well as to meet with federal scientists and visit a bee study site, it was a Fund for Environmental Journalism grant that helped her do it. Oldham shares her experience and advice in the latest FEJ StoryLog.

SEJ Publication Types:
FEJ StoryLog [55]
Topics on the Beat:
Agriculture [34]
Environmental Health [19]
Environmental Studies [56]
Journalism & Media [38]
Natural Resources [8]
Science [42]
Wildlife [57]
Region:
National (U.S.) [24]
Mountain West (CO ID MT NV UT WY) [58]
Visibility:
Public [15]
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Key National Dam Database Gets Major Upgrade [59]

Tens of thousands of dams around the United States provide important functions — but also represent critical environment or public safety risks. Now, one central resource to help environmental journalists cover these structures has been improved in important ways. The latest Reporter’s Toolbox walks you through the main changes to the National Inventory of Dams, and points out some lingering weaknesses.

SEJ Publication Types:
Reporters Toolbox [60]
Topics on the Beat:
Fish & Fisheries [47]
Infrastructure [7]
Journalism & Media [38]
Natural Resources [8]
Policy [10]
Water & Oceans [23]
Region:
National (U.S.) [24]
Visibility:
Public [15]
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Eating (and Reporting) My Way Through the Foods of the Rainforest [61]

Conserving crop diversity is a key to maintaining global food security, especially in the face of climate change. To understand those efforts, Portland, Ore.-based freelancer Virginia Gewin traveled to South America, supported by a grant from the Society of Environmental Journalists, to find out how Peruvian chefs and Amazon dwellers hope to save the rainforest by sharing native and wild foods.

SEJ Publication Types:
FEJ StoryLog [55]
Topics on the Beat:
Activism [3]
Agriculture [34]
Biodiversity [35]
Climate Change [4]
Economy & Business [5]
Environmental Justice [36]
Environmental Politics [6]
Food [20]
Forests [37]
Journalism & Media [38]
Natural Resources [8]
People & Population [9]
Planning & Growth [62]
Region:
International [13]
South America [31]
Visibility:
Public [15]
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U.N. Summit Lays the Table for Environmental Reporting on Food Systems [63]

After an 18-month buildup, a one-day U.N. Food Systems Summit earlier this fall generated hundreds of commitments to end global hunger and a dizzying array of alliances dedicated to the cause. Despite controversies surrounding the summit, this groundbreaking event highlighted opportunities for reporting on food and food systems. Award-winning agriculture journalist Chris Clayton shares his insights.

SEJ Publication Types:
Features [40]
Topics on the Beat:
Activism [3]
Agriculture [34]
Biodiversity [35]
Chemicals [64]
Climate Change [4]
Consumer [65]
Disasters [18]
Economy & Business [5]
Energy & Fuel [46]
Environmental Health [19]
Environmental Justice [36]
Environmental Politics [6]
Food [20]
Government [21]
Health [66]
Journalism & Media [38]
Laws & Regulations [48]
Natural Resources [8]
People & Population [9]
Planning & Growth [62]
Policy [10]
Pollution [11]
Science [42]
Technology [43]
Waste [67]
Region:
National (U.S.) [24]
California [49]
Great Plains (IA KS ND NE MO SD) [68]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [69]
International [13]
Canada [70]
Africa [26]
Europe [71]
Middle East [30]
South America [31]
Visibility:
Public [15]
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Climate Change at Core of Beat Reporters’ Award-Winning Coverage [72]

Beat reporters Hal Bernton and Mark Kaufman both found the dramatic changes wrought by climate change to be at the center of their coverage — as their work was elevated to prize-winning heights. Bernton, covering climate impacts in northwestern Alaska at a large newspaper, and Kaufman, covering CO2 globally for a digital platform, talk about the lessons of their recent beat coverage with SEJournal’s Inside Story.

SEJ Publication Types:
Inside Story [73]
Topics on the Beat:
Climate Change [4]
Energy & Fuel [46]
Environmental Health [19]
Fish & Fisheries [47]
Journalism & Media [38]
Natural Resources [8]
Policy [10]
Water & Oceans [23]
Region:
National (U.S.) [24]
Alaska and Hawaii [74]
International [13]
Visibility:
Public [15]
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