Publication Items

Interior Probe of Polar-Bear Scientist Buried with Settlement [1]

As efforts to suppress science go, the Interior Department's dunking-stool investigation of scientist Charles Monnett (who published observations that polar bears were drowning because of ice retreat) was quite a story. Now, with a $100,000 settlement, it is a story that may never be fully told, including whether there was evidence of political interference by top Interior officials.

SEJ Publication Types:
WatchDog TipSheet [2]
Topics on the Beat:
Wildlife [3]
Science [4]
Government [5]
Visibility:
Public [6]
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"The Last Atoll: Exploring Hawai’i’s Endangered Ecosystems" [7]

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BookShelf [8]
Topics on the Beat:
Natural Resources [9]
Planning & Growth [10]
Pollution [11]
Wildlife [3]
Visibility:
Public [6]
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The Tangled Tale of the Endangered Wolf [12]

SEJ Publication Types:
Features [13]
Topics on the Beat:
Wildlife [3]
Visibility:
Public [6]
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News Media Groups Urge Court To Open up Wild-Horse Roundups [14]

In 2010, BLM denied Horseback Magazine photojournalist Laura Leigh access to federal land to photograph a roundup. She went to court, was rejected, then went to a complex chain of appeals. Now the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press and other j-groups have filed friend-of-the-court briefs in support of photojournalists' First Amendment rights to cover government actions.

SEJ Publication Types:
WatchDog TipSheet [2]
Topics on the Beat:
Wildlife [3]
Laws & Regulations [15]
Visibility:
Public [6]
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The Endangered Species Act at 40: Forty Things Journalists Should Know [16]

John Platt, author of Scientific American's Extinction Countdown blog, offers up a great list of things that may help environmental journalists illuminate some of the issues in question as the Act prepares for its second 40 years. Photo: A California condor outfitted with tracking tags, courtesy USFWS.

SEJ Publication Types:
Backgrounders [18]
Topics on the Beat:
Laws & Regulations [15]
Wildlife [3]
Visibility:
Public [6]
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SEJournal Summer 2013, Vol. 23 No. 2 [17]

In this issue: ESA at 40 — 40 things journalists should know; tangled tale of the endangered wolf; SEJ resources for busy enviro journalists; how one freelancer supports a travel addiction; five book reviews; IJNR institute inspires journalists; watershed tipsheet; and SEJ's 2012 individuals donor list.

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SEJournal Online [19]
Topics on the Beat:
Journalism & Media [20]
Laws & Regulations [15]
Water & Oceans [21]
Wildlife [3]
Visibility:
Public [6]
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"Gold Rush in the Jungle: The Race to Discover and Defend the Rarest Animals of Vietnam’s 'Lost World'" [22]

SEJ Publication Types:
BookShelf [8]
Topics on the Beat:
Biodiversity [23]
Journalism & Media [20]
People & Population [24]
Planning & Growth [10]
Wildlife [3]
Region:
Asia [25]
Visibility:
Public [6]
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The Carson Effect [26]

William Souder explains how Rachel Carson's seminal 1962 work Silent Spring shaped (and still shapes) modern environmentalism (from his new book, On a Farther Shore: The Life and Legacy of Rachel Carson).

SEJ Publication Types:
Features [13]
Topics on the Beat:
Chemicals [28]
Environmental Health [29]
Environmental Politics [30]
Health [31]
Science [4]
Wildlife [3]
Visibility:
Public [6]
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Traveling Florida’s Lost Wildlife Highways [32]

Freelance writer and photographer Roger Archibald tells the tale of the 2012 Florida Wildlife Corridor Expedition, which sought to reclaim a tenuous natural migratory route that the state’s surviving endemic wildlife might once again follow.

SEJ Publication Types:
Features [13]
Topics on the Beat:
Natural Resources [9]
Planning & Growth [10]
Transportation [33]
Wildlife [3]
Region:
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [34]
Visibility:
Public [6]
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Polar Bear Scientist Cleared; Interior Dept. Still Under Openness Cloud [35]

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 [2]
Topics on the Beat:
Water & Oceans [21]
Science [4]
Government [5]
Environmental Politics [30]
Climate Change [36]
Wildlife [3]
Region:
Antarctica & Arctic [37]
Visibility:
Public [6]
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