Publication Items

“You Can’t Fool Mother Nature: The Once and Future Triumph of Environmentalism” [1]

It’s been a half-century since the first Earth Day in 1970 and a new book from an old hand catalogues the advances and the setbacks in the decades since. BookShelf contributor Francesca Lyman reviews “You Can’t Fool Mother Nature: The Once and Future Triumph of Environmentalism,” and explores how a long view from a veteran environmentalist informs the field of environmental reporting.

SEJ Publication Types:
BookShelf [2]
Topics on the Beat:
Activism [3]
Air [4]
Climate Change [5]
Consumer [6]
Environmental Politics [7]
Journalism & Media [8]
Laws & Regulations [9]
Natural Resources [10]
People & Population [11]
Policy [12]
Pollution [13]
Waste [14]
Water & Oceans [15]
Region:
National (U.S.) [16]
Visibility:
Public [17]
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Searching for Narrative in the Groundwater Where It Happens [18]

A graduate field scientist-cum-multimedia storyteller trains her eye on the confounding challenges of western water, with award-winning student reporting on three family farms that face the draining of critical groundwater basins. Could land that drought makes untenable for farming be restored as habitat for endangered species? That, plus how the “ladder of abstraction” helped her tell the tale. The most recent entry in EJ Academy.

SEJ Publication Types:
EJ Academy [19]
Topics on the Beat:
Agriculture [20]
Environmental Health [21]
Food [22]
Journalism & Media [8]
Natural Resources [10]
Planning & Growth [23]
Water & Oceans [15]
Region:
National (U.S.) [16]
California [24]
Visibility:
Public [17]
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Climate Change Policy Likely To Permeate Executive Under Biden [25]

What will climate change policy look like under a Biden administration? If nothing else, it appears it will be broadly based across a wide range of executive branch operations. This week’s TipSheet walks you through the top 10 federal departments, agencies and spending centers and how they will pivot to focus on global warming.

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TipSheet [26]
Topics on the Beat:
Agriculture [20]
Air [4]
Chemicals [27]
Economy & Business [28]
Energy & Fuel [29]
Environmental Politics [7]
Forests [30]
Government [31]
Laws & Regulations [9]
Military [32]
Natural Resources [10]
Nuclear Power & Radiation [33]
Policy [12]
Pollution [13]
Science [34]
Technology [35]
Transportation [36]
Region:
National (U.S.) [16]
International [37]
Visibility:
Public [17]
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Reporter, Wearing Two Hats, Journeys Into Filmmaking [38]

For Boston Globe environment reporter David Abel, a side project shooting video of the 2013 Boston Marathon sealed his passion for nonfiction filmmaking, one that has since yielded four high-profile nature documentaries. In EJ InSight, Abel traces that path and details how he balances his environment reporting and filmmaking. Plus, view images from Abel’s documentary work [39].

SEJ Publication Types:
EJ InSight [40]
Topics on the Beat:
Climate Change [5]
Environmental Health [21]
Fish & Fisheries [41]
Journalism & Media [8]
Natural Resources [10]
Water & Oceans [15]
Region:
National (U.S.) [16]
Northeast (CT MA ME NH NJ NY RI VT) [42]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [43]
Visibility:
Public [17]
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Midnight Deregulation Zombie Horror Show Begins [44]

A rush of last-minute regulatory (and deregulatory) actions are underway in the waning days of the Trump administration. And the latest TipSheet has suggestions not only for how to keep track, but also how to bird-dog the numerous ways the incoming Biden administration might try to reverse Trump’s course.

SEJ Publication Types:
TipSheet [26]
Topics on the Beat:
Air [4]
Climate Change [5]
Energy & Fuel [29]
Environmental Politics [7]
Government [31]
Health [45]
Journalism & Media [8]
Laws & Regulations [9]
Natural Resources [10]
Policy [12]
Pollution [13]
Science [34]
Transportation [36]
Region:
National (U.S.) [16]
Alaska and Hawaii [46]
Visibility:
Public [17]
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Time To Flip the Ocean Script — From Victim to Solution [47]

The narrative around the ocean should become a more hopeful one, argues former NOAA administrator Jane Lubchenco. As evidence at the Society of Environmental Journalists’ recent virtual conference, Lubchenco cites a top-level international analysis that suggests the ocean can play a positive role in everything from reducing climate change to securing the future of food. Find out more.

SEJ Publication Types:
SEJ News [48]
Topics on the Beat:
Climate Change [5]
Economy & Business [28]
Energy & Fuel [29]
Environmental Health [21]
Environmental Politics [7]
Environmental Studies [49]
Fish & Fisheries [41]
Food [22]
Government [31]
Health [45]
Laws & Regulations [9]
Natural Resources [10]
Policy [12]
Pollution [13]
Science [34]
Transportation [36]
Waste [14]
Water & Oceans [15]
Region:
National (U.S.) [16]
International [37]
Visibility:
Public [17]
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Climate-Unfriendly Coal May Be Losing Ground in U.S., But Not Worldwide [50]

When it comes to climate change, coal’s carbon emissions mean trouble. But as Backgrounder explains, if the once-powerful coal industry is on the decline in the United States, the fuel’s still finding favor worldwide. And that’s bad news for the Paris climate accord’s hopes of gaining control of runaway warming. The story behind the “exaggerated death” of coal.

SEJ Publication Types:
Backgrounders [51]
Topics on the Beat:
Air [4]
Climate Change [5]
Consumer [6]
Energy & Fuel [29]
Environmental Politics [7]
Laws & Regulations [9]
Natural Resources [10]
Policy [12]
Pollution [13]
Region:
National (U.S.) [16]
Mid-Atlantic (DC DE MD PA VA WV) [52]
Mountain West (CO ID MT NV UT WY) [53]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [43]
International [37]
Asia [54]
Australia & Oceania [55]
Visibility:
Public [17]
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Plant Trackers Help Mark Coal’s Decline [56]

Keeping tabs on the increasingly frequent closing of U.S. coal-fired electric power plants is an important way to follow developments on the larger climate change beat. The latest Reporter’s Toolbox points to several mapping databases that help make the job far easier — whether watching the industry in the United States or abroad.

SEJ Publication Types:
Reporters Toolbox [57]
Topics on the Beat:
Activism [3]
Air [4]
Climate Change [5]
Energy & Fuel [29]
Journalism & Media [8]
Natural Resources [10]
Pollution [13]
Region:
National (U.S.) [16]
International [37]
Visibility:
Public [17]
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Why Reporters Should Catch the Watershed by the Tale [58]

Drainage basin may not be the sexiest of ecosystem designations, but watersheds have essential stories to tell. And environment reporters would be wise to view them as regional beats all their own, argues a long-time watershed reporter, who explains why and offers a series of tips to help journalists get the best of the basin beat.

SEJ Publication Types:
Features [59]
Topics on the Beat:
Fish & Fisheries [41]
Journalism & Media [8]
Natural Resources [10]
Water & Oceans [15]
Region:
National (U.S.) [16]
Mid-Atlantic (DC DE MD PA VA WV) [52]
Visibility:
Public [17]
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‘The Power of Partnerships’ Helps Uncover America’s Energy Gamble [60]

It took teams of journalists to produce an award-winning series of reports digging into environment and climate health effects of massive oil and natural gas production in the Southwestern United States. Our latest Inside Story talks with Jamie Smith Hopkins of the Center for Public Integrity about the benefits of reporting a big story jointly and the project’s sometimes surprising findings.

SEJ Publication Types:
Inside Story [61]
Topics on the Beat:
Climate Change [5]
Economy & Business [28]
Energy & Fuel [29]
Journalism & Media [8]
Natural Resources [10]
Policy [12]
Region:
National (U.S.) [16]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [62]
International [37]
Visibility:
Public [17]
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