Publication Items

Climate Health Impacts Can Multiply Local Story Possibilities [1]

The connection between global warming and human health is worrying many public health experts, as some climate change-induced ecological shifts have worsened the potential spread of infectious diseases, including in North America. The latest TipSheet takes a closer look at a half-dozen climate-related diseases that environmental journalists might watch for local and regional stories. Plus, resources to report on the issue.

SEJ Publication Types:
TipSheet [2]
Topics on the Beat:
Climate Change [3]
Health [4]
People & Population [5]
Region:
National (U.S.) [6]
International [7]
Visibility:
Public [8]
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Between the Lines — Author Explores Experience of Living Through Climate Change [9]

To make climate change less abstract and more direct, writer Madeline Ostrander traveled the country to speak to those living with its impacts in the places they call home. In a BookShelf “Between the Lines” Q&A, Ostrander discusses her resulting book, “At Home on an Unruly Planet: Finding Refuge on a Changed Earth,” and addresses the lenses she used, the characters she portrayed and the surprises she encountered.

SEJ Publication Types:
BookShelf [10]
Topics on the Beat:
Activism [11]
Climate Change [3]
Disasters [12]
Economy & Business [13]
Environmental Justice [14]
Environmental Politics [15]
Forests [16]
Health [4]
Journalism & Media [17]
People & Population [5]
Policy [18]
Religion, Faith and Spirituality [19]
Science [20]
Wildlife [21]
Region:
National (U.S.) [6]
Alaska and Hawaii [22]
California [23]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [24]
International [7]
Canada [25]
Visibility:
Public [8]
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Gathering Offers Sobering Look Ahead at 2024, But With Glimmers of Hope [26]

Top environmental journalists and others at the Society of Environmental Journalists annual “Journalists’ Guide to Environment and Energy” program foresee some challenging realities to cover in 2024, most notably with the ongoing impacts of climate change. Bright signs emerged as well. Read our take, watch the event video [27] and visit our full “2024 Journalists’ Guide to Environment + Energy [28]” special report.

SEJ Publication Types:
SEJ News [29]
Topics on the Beat:
Air [30]
Biodiversity [31]
Chemicals [32]
Climate Change [3]
Disasters [12]
Environmental Health [33]
Environmental Justice [14]
Environmental Politics [15]
Fish & Fisheries [34]
Forests [16]
Health [4]
Journalism & Media [17]
Natural Resources [35]
People & Population [5]
Policy [18]
Pollution [36]
Water & Oceans [37]
Region:
National (U.S.) [6]
Alaska and Hawaii [22]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [24]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [38]
International [7]
South America [39]
Visibility:
Public [8]
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Covering Food Systems — The Next Climate Action Battleground [40]

Freelance food systems reporter Thin Lei Win believes that if the world doesn’t change the way it produces, processes, transports, consumes and discards food, climate change will worsen and hunger levels will spike. But she also worries that powerful interests want to keep the status quo and cites parallels with the tobacco and fossil fuel industries. More in Freelance Files, including places for freelancers to pitch climate-food stories.

SEJ Publication Types:
Freelance Files [41]
Topics on the Beat:
Agriculture [42]
Climate Change [3]
Consumer [43]
Economy & Business [13]
Energy & Fuel [44]
Food [45]
Journalism & Media [17]
People & Population [5]
Policy [18]
Pollution [36]
Region:
National (U.S.) [6]
International [7]
Visibility:
Public [8]
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High-Risk Reporting Yields Results on Palm Oil Investigation [46]

The devastation caused by the Amazonian palm oil industry was at the heart of an investigation by Mongabay reporter Karla Mendes. But first she had to face hostile sources, intransigent regulators and a robbery attempt. Ultimately, the project not only won a reporting prize from the Society of Environmental Journalists but brought global awareness and government action. Her experience, in Inside Story Q&A.

SEJ Publication Types:
Inside Story [47]
Topics on the Beat:
Agriculture [42]
Chemicals [32]
Economy & Business [13]
Environmental Health [33]
Environmental Justice [14]
Environmental Politics [15]
Food [45]
Forests [16]
Government [48]
Health [4]
Journalism & Media [17]
Natural Resources [35]
People & Population [5]
Pollution [36]
Water & Oceans [37]
Region:
International [7]
South America [39]
Visibility:
Public [8]
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Author Brings Far-Reaching Insight to ‘The Three Ages of Water’ [49]

Leading water expert Peter Gleick’s new book on water’s past, present and future is an ambitious volume that offers a panoramic look at this essential resource — and hope for living in harmony with it in the future. BookShelf Editor Tom Henry calls “The Three Ages of Water” a rare book of breadth and depth, part history and part sustainable remedy. Read his review.

SEJ Publication Types:
BookShelf [10]
Topics on the Beat:
Climate Change [3]
Environmental Health [33]
Environmental Justice [14]
Food [45]
Health [4]
Natural Resources [35]
People & Population [5]
Planning & Growth [50]
Policy [18]
Science [20]
Water & Oceans [37]
Region:
National (U.S.) [6]
Great Lakes (IL IN MI MN OH WI) [51]
International [7]
Africa [52]
Asia [53]
Visibility:
Public [8]
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Home Insurance Likely To Be a 2024 Climate Story Near You [54]

In the first of a two-parter for our 2024 Journalists’ Guide to Environment & Energy, TipSheet looks at what climate-driven disasters mean for the home insurance market. Storms, floods and fire rip through communities, yet a federal insurance program falls short, lawmakers shy away from real reform and insurers grow hesitant to cover the risks, while homeowners often attempt to rebuild in the same problematic locales. Plus, see part two [55] on extreme weather and insurance.

SEJ Publication Types:
TipSheet [2]
Topics on the Beat:
Climate Change [3]
Consumer [43]
Disasters [12]
Economy & Business [13]
Environmental Politics [15]
Government [48]
Journalism & Media [17]
Laws & Regulations [56]
People & Population [5]
Planning & Growth [50]
Policy [18]
Region:
National (U.S.) [6]
California [23]
Northeast (CT MA ME NH NJ NY RI VT) [57]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [24]
Visibility:
Public [8]
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Unique Podcast Team Gives Voice to Troubled Communities Near Declining Salton Sea [58]

In the Coachella Valley east of Los Angeles, the massive Salton Sea is rapidly drying up, threatening vulnerable immigrant communities in a growing toxic environment. The Living Downstream podcast reported extensively on these hazards, winning third place in the Society of Environmental Journalists’ Awards for Reporting on the Environment’s explanatory reporting, small, category, in 2022. Inside Story spoke with one of the prizewinners.

SEJ Publication Types:
Inside Story [47]
Topics on the Beat:
Activism [11]
Agriculture [42]
Climate Change [3]
Disasters [12]
Environmental Health [33]
Environmental Justice [14]
Environmental Politics [15]
Health [4]
Journalism & Media [17]
Natural Resources [35]
People & Population [5]
Water & Oceans [37]
Region:
National (U.S.) [6]
California [23]
Visibility:
Public [8]
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Disabilities and Disasters — What Questions Should You Be Asking Planners? [59]

As hurricane season ramps up, how are the disaster planners considering those with disabilities in your community? Texas-based journalist Greg Harman shares the story of one group that sued their city over claims it failed to properly prepare. And he extracts some rules of thumb to help determine if emergency planners are taking those with disabilities into consideration where you are.

SEJ Publication Types:
Features [60]
Topics on the Beat:
Activism [11]
Climate Change [3]
Disasters [12]
Diversity [61]
Environmental Health [33]
Environmental Justice [14]
Environmental Politics [15]
Government [48]
Health [4]
Infrastructure [62]
Journalism & Media [17]
Laws & Regulations [56]
People & Population [5]
Policy [18]
Region:
National (U.S.) [6]
Northeast (CT MA ME NH NJ NY RI VT) [57]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [38]
Visibility:
Public [8]
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Uncovering the Environmental Impacts of a Controversial Water Project [63]

Months spent gathering thousands of documents and talking to local residents led reporter Dheeraj Mishra to uncover the negative environmental impacts of a major hydro project in a water-scarce region of India. And his resulting investigative reporting got him noticed in the 2022 Society of Environmental Journalists’ 2022 awards contest. Mishra shares his insights in the new Inside Story Q&A.

SEJ Publication Types:
Inside Story [47]
Topics on the Beat:
Environmental Health [33]
Environmental Justice [14]
Environmental Politics [15]
Government [48]
Infrastructure [62]
Journalism & Media [17]
Natural Resources [35]
People & Population [5]
Planning & Growth [50]
Policy [18]
Pollution [36]
Water & Oceans [37]
Region:
International [7]
Asia [53]
Visibility:
Public [8]
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