Publication Items

Bear Stories Should Go Beyond Bare Facts [1]

Bears, particularly the plentiful black bears that are the source of much human-bear conflict, can serve as a opening to larger environmental stories, such as habitat destruction and the challenges of the “wildland-urban interface.” This week’s TipSheet has some of the good news/bad news on bears, with story ideas and resources for your reporting.

SEJ Publication Types:
TipSheet [2]
Topics on the Beat:
Climate Change [3]
Environmental Health [4]
Forests [5]
Journalism & Media [6]
Laws & Regulations [7]
Natural Resources [8]
People & Population [9]
Wildlife [10]
Region:
National (U.S.) [11]
Alaska and Hawaii [12]
California [13]
Great Lakes (IL IN MI MN OH WI) [14]
Great Plains (IA KS ND NE MO SD) [15]
Mountain West (CO ID MT NV UT WY) [16]
Northeast (CT MA ME NH NJ NY RI VT) [17]
Northwest (OR WA) [18]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [19]
International [20]
Canada [21]
Antarctica & Arctic [22]
Visibility:
Public [23]
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How Others Are Practicing Multimedia [24]

As part of SEJournal's new EJ InSight column, a quarterly section that will explore the range of photojournalism, videography, information graphics and data visualization for environmental journalism, read a short piece on how print environmental journalists are experimenting with photography.

SEJ Publication Types:
EJ InSight [25]
Topics on the Beat:
Journalism & Media [6]
People & Population [9]
Region:
International [20]
Antarctica & Arctic [22]
Asia [26]
Visibility:
Public [23]
- Read more about How Others Are Practicing Multimedia [24]
Reporting Science, Side-by-Side with the Scientists [27]

An award-winning radio series takes us along for the ride as reporter and editor work to cover the cutting edge of climate change research. Inside Story interviews the pair to explore not only how they pulled the package together, but also how you can advance your own reporting, working directly with scientists in the field.

SEJ Publication Types:
Inside Story [28]
Topics on the Beat:
Climate Change [3]
Region:
Antarctica & Arctic [22]
Visibility:
Public [23]
- Read more about Reporting Science, Side-by-Side with the Scientists [27]
Leaked: New Secret CRS Explainers for the Environment-Energy Beat [29]

Here are some recent Congressional Research Service reports relevant to the environment and energy beat, thanks to the Federation of American Scientists' Government Secrecy Project.

SEJ Publication Types:
WatchDog TipSheet [30]
Topics on the Beat:
Air [31]
Disasters [32]
Energy & Fuel [33]
Health [34]
Transportation [35]
Region:
Antarctica & Arctic [22]
Visibility:
Public [23]
- Read more about Leaked: New Secret CRS Explainers for the Environment-Energy Beat [29]
"Future Arctic: Field Notes from a World on the Edge" [36]

SEJ Publication Types:
BookShelf [37]
Topics on the Beat:
Biodiversity [38]
Climate Change [3]
Economy & Business [39]
Environmental Politics [40]
Natural Resources [8]
People & Population [9]
Region:
Antarctica & Arctic [22]
Visibility:
Public [23]
- Read more about "Future Arctic: Field Notes from a World on the Edge" [36]
Secret Reports to Congress — Revealed for Environmental Reporters [41]

New expert background reports of interest to environmental journalists and the public have been published by the Federation of American Scientists Project on Government Secrecy.

SEJ Publication Types:
WatchDog TipSheet [30]
Topics on the Beat:
Energy & Fuel [33]
Natural Resources [8]
Nuclear Power & Radiation [42]
Water & Oceans [43]
Region:
National (U.S.) [11]
California [13]
Africa [44]
Antarctica & Arctic [22]
Visibility:
Public [23]
- Read more about Secret Reports to Congress — Revealed for Environmental Reporters [41]
Feds Open Unclassified Spy Satellite Data on Arctic to Public [45]

The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, which runs satellites collecting geodata both classified and unclassified, has put up a new Web page with Arctic information. It just went up, and it's as little geeky, but it shows promise for longer-term utility.

SEJ Publication Types:
WatchDog TipSheet [30]
Topics on the Beat:
Technology [46]
Region:
Antarctica & Arctic [22]
Visibility:
Public [23]
- Read more about Feds Open Unclassified Spy Satellite Data on Arctic to Public [45]
Need to Know? Eight Reports from the Congressional Research Service [47]

Congress does not release reports done by the Congressional Research Service to the public, even though taxpayers fund them. Thanks to the Federation of American Scientists' Government Secrecy Project, you can read them anyway.

SEJ Publication Types:
WatchDog TipSheet [30]
Topics on the Beat:
Disasters [32]
Economy & Business [39]
Energy & Fuel [33]
Natural Resources [8]
Nuclear Power & Radiation [42]
Science [48]
Technology [46]
Region:
Antarctica & Arctic [22]
Visibility:
Public [23]
- Read more about Need to Know? Eight Reports from the Congressional Research Service [47]
"The Last Ocean: Antarctica's Ross Sea Project: Saving the Most Pristine Ecosystem on Earth" [49]

SEJ Publication Types:
BookShelf [37]
Topics on the Beat:
Journalism & Media [6]
Natural Resources [8]
Region:
Antarctica & Arctic [22]
Visibility:
Public [23]
- Read more about "The Last Ocean: Antarctica's Ross Sea Project: Saving the Most Pristine Ecosystem on Earth" [49]
Polar Bear Scientist Cleared; Interior Dept. Still Under Openness Cloud [50]

Five years after wildlife biologist Charles Monnett's 2006 observations of dead polar bears, believed to have drowned because of disappearing Arctic ice, Interior started an investigation of Monnett's science. The findings — partially published September 28, 2012 — were confused and contained no findings of scientific misconduct.

SEJ Publication Types:
WatchDog TipSheet [30]
Topics on the Beat:
Water & Oceans [43]
Science [48]
Government [51]
Environmental Politics [40]
Climate Change [3]
Wildlife [10]
Region:
Antarctica & Arctic [22]
Visibility:
Public [23]
- Read more about Polar Bear Scientist Cleared; Interior Dept. Still Under Openness Cloud [50]

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