Publication Items

SEJournal Summer/Fall 2012, Vol. 22 No. 2,3 [1]

In this issue: How Carson's Silent Spring shapes modern environmentalism; Florida's lost wildlife highways; an interview with San Antonio Express-News enviro-adventure reporter Colin McDonald; bridging the journalism/science divide; SEJ Awards winners; EPA's ECHO database, your two-faced best friend; and more.

SEJ Publication Types:
SEJournal Online [2]
Topics on the Beat:
Chemicals [3]
Climate Change [4]
Pollution [5]
Technology [6]
Water & Oceans [7]
Wildlife [8]
Visibility:
Public [9]
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Can You Find Local Stories in FAA Wildlife Strike Database? [10]

Should passengers taking off from — or landing at — your local airport worry about bird strikes? You can find information leading to a few answers in the Federal Aviation Administration's online, searchable FAA Wildlife Strike Database.

SEJ Publication Types:
WatchDog TipSheet [11]
Topics on the Beat:
Wildlife [8]
Transportation [12]
Disasters [13]
Visibility:
Public [9]
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Boots on the Ground at Annual SEJ Gathering [14]

SEJ Publication Types:
SEJ News [15]
Topics on the Beat:
Climate Change [4]
Economy & Business [16]
Energy & Fuel [17]
Environmental Politics [18]
Food [19]
Journalism & Media [20]
Natural Resources [21]
Nuclear Power & Radiation [22]
People & Population [23]
Planning & Growth [24]
Water & Oceans [7]
Wildlife [8]
Region:
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [25]
Visibility:
Public [9]
- Read more about Boots on the Ground at Annual SEJ Gathering [14]
Group Sues Interior for Failure to Disclose Correspondence with Wind Industry [26]

The American Bird Conservancy has gone to court after the Interior Department stonewalled its Freedom-of-Information-Act requests for correspondence between feds and the wind industry on how potential wind projects in 10 states might affect birds and bats.
SEJ Publication Types:
WatchDog TipSheet [11]
Topics on the Beat:
Wildlife [8]
Environmental Politics [18]
Energy & Fuel [17]
Biodiversity [27]
Region:
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [25]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [28]
Mountain West (CO ID MT NV UT WY) [29]
Great Plains (IA KS ND NE MO SD) [30]
Great Lakes (IL IN MI MN OH WI) [31]
California [32]
Visibility:
Public [9]
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Data.gov Keeps on Giving Gifts to Gumshoe Reporters [33]

The federal Data.gov, while not perfect, has grown over three years especially strong in datasets from federal agencies that deal with the environment, energy, natural resources, health, and science. Many of them are downloadable, so that you can crunch them on your own computer. Several are map layers or geo-tagged in some way. See a few randomly chosen examples here.
SEJ Publication Types:
WatchDog TipSheet [11]
Topics on the Beat:
Wildlife [8]
Water & Oceans [7]
Science [34]
Nuclear Power & Radiation [22]
Natural Resources [21]
Health [35]
Government [36]
Energy & Fuel [17]
Disasters [13]
Visibility:
Public [9]
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How Muzzling Scientists Helps the Chemical Industry [37]

A Chicago Tribune investigative series on flame retardant chemicals helps illustrate how federal agency control of what scientists say to reporters can help the chemical and tobacco industries. By reporter Michael Hawthorne.
SEJ Publication Types:
WatchDog TipSheet [11]
Topics on the Beat:
Wildlife [8]
Science [34]
Pollution [5]
People & Population [23]
Health [35]
Environmental Politics [18]
Environmental Health [38]
Chemicals [3]
Visibility:
Public [9]
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Integrity Problems at Interior's Science Integrity Program? [39]

One sign of problems came when Interior's Inspector General office launched what seemed to be a ham-handed investigation, later dropped, into activities of the scientist who sounded the alarm on polar bears losing habitat to global warming. Now Interior has fired one of its scientific integrity officers — who is defending himself by saying he was just doing his job.
SEJ Publication Types:
WatchDog TipSheet [11]
Topics on the Beat:
Wildlife [8]
Water & Oceans [7]
Science [34]
Government [36]
Fish & Fisheries [40]
Environmental Politics [18]
Climate Change [4]
Biodiversity [27]
Visibility:
Public [9]
- Read more about Integrity Problems at Interior's Science Integrity Program? [39]
"Winged Obsession: The Pursuit of the World's Most Notorious Butterfly Smuggler" [41]

SEJ Publication Types:
BookShelf [42]
Topics on the Beat:
Biodiversity [27]
Wildlife [8]
Visibility:
Public [9]
- Read more about "Winged Obsession: The Pursuit of the World's Most Notorious Butterfly Smuggler" [41]
"The Beekeeper's Lament: How One Man and Half A Billion Honeybees Help Feed America" [43]

SEJ Publication Types:
BookShelf [42]
Topics on the Beat:
Biodiversity [27]
Wildlife [8]
Visibility:
Public [9]
- Read more about "The Beekeeper's Lament: How One Man and Half A Billion Honeybees Help Feed America" [43]
USFS Offers Climate Change Bird Atlas [44]

The atlas — a database actually — is based partly on climate-related changes in tree cover. It maps out current distribution of 147 species and modeled distribution resulting from climate change.
SEJ Publication Types:
TipSheet [45]
Topics on the Beat:
Wildlife [8]
Forests [46]
Climate Change [4]
Biodiversity [27]
Visibility:
Public [9]
- Read more about USFS Offers Climate Change Bird Atlas [44]

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