Publication Items

“Saudi America: The Truth About Fracking and How It’s Changing the World” [1]

The economics of fracking may be as big a worry as its environmental impacts, finds a new book on the energy extraction industry. Our latest BookShelf reviews the volume from a seasoned business reporter, who questions conventional views about a renewed U.S. energy “dominance,” probes the financial instability of the industry’s boom and raises the politically destabilizing spectre of a future decline for the fossil fuel market.

SEJ Publication Types:
BookShelf [2]
Topics on the Beat:
Economy & Business [3]
Energy & Fuel [4]
Environmental Politics [5]
Natural Resources [6]
Policy [7]
Technology [8]
Region:
National (U.S.) [9]
International [10]
Africa [11]
Middle East [12]
Visibility:
Public [13]
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Between the Lines: Getting Inside the Head of a Book Editor [14]

“Think big, but keep your feet on the ground” — that’s the kind of sound advice that would-be authors receive behind closed doors at the Society of Environmental Journalists’ annual conference, where book editors offer confidential feedback on author pitches in the yearly “Book Slam.” Now, SEJournal has tapped Slam moderator Meera Subramanian to gather book editors’ top 15 tips from the 2018 SEJ gathering in Flint. We share them with you in our latest Between the Lines.

SEJ Publication Types:
BookShelf [2]
Topics on the Beat:
Journalism & Media [15]
Region:
National (U.S.) [9]
International [10]
Visibility:
Public [13]
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Climate Change Issue Will Heat Up in 2019 [16]

The topic of climate change will certainly heat up in 2019. That’s not just because a Democratic House will push back against the Trump administration, but also because of pressure from a “Green New Deal” clean-energy jobs movement, not to mention ongoing legal action, and corporate and state-level moves to limit carbon emissions. This special edition TipSheet explores the fault lines on climate in the year ahead.

SEJ Publication Types:
TipSheet [17]
Topics on the Beat:
Activism [18]
Climate Change [19]
Energy & Fuel [4]
Environmental Politics [5]
Government [20]
Laws & Regulations [21]
Policy [7]
Science [22]
Technology [8]
Region:
National (U.S.) [9]
International [10]
Visibility:
Public [13]
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The 2019 Journalists’ Guide to Energy & Environment [23]

SEJournal looks ahead to key issues in the coming year with this "2019 Journalists’ Guide to Energy & Environment" special report. Stay tuned as we continue to add elements to the report up through and beyond its formal launch Jan. 25 at an annual roundtable [24], organized by the Society of Environmental Journalists with the Wilson Center in Washington, D.C.

SEJ Publication Types:
SEJ News [25]
Topics on the Beat:
Activism [18]
Air [26]
Chemicals [27]
Climate Change [19]
Consumer [28]
Disasters [29]
Economy & Business [3]
Energy & Fuel [4]
Environmental Health [30]
Environmental Politics [5]
Environmental Studies [31]
Fish & Fisheries [32]
Forests [33]
Government [20]
Health [34]
Journalism & Media [15]
Laws & Regulations [21]
Natural Resources [6]
People & Population [35]
Policy [7]
Pollution [36]
Science [22]
Technology [8]
Transportation [37]
Water & Oceans [38]
Wildlife [39]
Region:
National (U.S.) [9]
International [10]
Visibility:
Public [13]
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‘Cli-Fi’ a New Horizon for Climate Change Writers [40]

It's not often that a new genre of science writing opens up for freelancers. But writer Dan Bloom suggests there's a growing market for freelancers who want to write about climate in the form known as “cli-fi,” a new dystopian fiction that focuses on future impacts of climate change. Freelance Files editor Karen Schaefer invited him to share his perspective on the emerging genre.

SEJ Publication Types:
Freelance Files [41]
Topics on the Beat:
Climate Change [19]
Journalism & Media [15]
Region:
International [10]
Visibility:
Public [13]
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Environmental (In)Justice Coverage Grows, As More Media Take Note [42]

Environmental justice-related stories are expected to get more attention in the news media in 2019. But that’s not because the challenge of protecting marginalized communities from lopsided environmental impacts is being met. This week’s TipSheet explains, in a look-ahead to environmental justice stories making the news, the many forms the problem takes, the many communities affected and the emerging notion of “climate justice.”

SEJ Publication Types:
TipSheet [17]
Topics on the Beat:
Activism [18]
Air [26]
Chemicals [27]
Climate Change [19]
Disasters [29]
Environmental Health [30]
Environmental Politics [5]
Government [20]
Health [34]
Journalism & Media [15]
Laws & Regulations [21]
People & Population [35]
Pollution [36]
Region:
National (U.S.) [9]
Alaska and Hawaii [43]
California [44]
Great Lakes (IL IN MI MN OH WI) [45]
Great Plains (IA KS ND NE MO SD) [46]
Mid-Atlantic (DC DE MD PA VA WV) [47]
Mountain West (CO ID MT NV UT WY) [48]
Northeast (CT MA ME NH NJ NY RI VT) [49]
Northwest (OR WA) [50]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [51]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [52]
International [10]
Mexico [53]
Central America & the Caribbean [54]
Visibility:
Public [13]
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“Diet for a Changing Climate: Food for Thought” [55]

As our BookShelf column moves to a monthly schedule, we take a look at an imaginative take on how to deal with the spread of invasive species — eating them! A pair of children’s book authors offers insight into the problem for young adult readers (and the rest of us), along with recipes. Read our review.

SEJ Publication Types:
BookShelf [2]
Topics on the Beat:
Activism [18]
Agriculture [56]
Climate Change [19]
Consumer [28]
Food [57]
Region:
National (U.S.) [9]
International [10]
Visibility:
Public [13]
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Field Reporting Yields ‘Impact’ for Poaching Package [58]

A freelancer’s coverage of the international wildlife trade won one of the Society of Environmental Journalists’ top journalism awards this year for its combination of “fearless reporting and graceful writing.” SEJournal Online talks with award-winner Rachel Nuwer about the series, the benefits of field reporting and the project’s challenges, such as securing funding, all in the latest Inside Story Q&A. And good news for Inside Story fans — the quarterly feature is now upping its frequency to bi-monthly!

SEJ Publication Types:
Inside Story [59]
Topics on the Beat:
Biodiversity [60]
Economy & Business [3]
Journalism & Media [15]
Wildlife [39]
Region:
International [10]
Africa [11]
Asia [61]
Visibility:
Public [13]
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Bear Stories Should Go Beyond Bare Facts [62]

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 [17]
Topics on the Beat:
Climate Change [19]
Environmental Health [30]
Forests [33]
Journalism & Media [15]
Laws & Regulations [21]
Natural Resources [6]
People & Population [35]
Wildlife [39]
Region:
National (U.S.) [9]
Alaska and Hawaii [43]
California [44]
Great Lakes (IL IN MI MN OH WI) [45]
Great Plains (IA KS ND NE MO SD) [46]
Mountain West (CO ID MT NV UT WY) [48]
Northeast (CT MA ME NH NJ NY RI VT) [49]
Northwest (OR WA) [50]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [51]
International [10]
Canada [63]
Antarctica & Arctic [64]
Visibility:
Public [13]
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Will Hackers Crash U.S. Energy, Environment Infrastructure? [65]

The vulnerability of critical U.S. infrastructure to cyberattacks has been a growing worry for years, as electric utilities, drinking water systems, chemical plants, nuclear plants, pipelines and more are the target of a burgeoning cadre of hackers. But for environmental and other journalists focused on the story, another problem has emerged: The secrecy that has long been part of the U.S. cybersecurity policy. In this comprehensive Backgrounder, SEJournal takes a look at the risk, the response and the resources to let reporters go deep on cyber warfare as an energy and environment story.

SEJ Publication Types:
Backgrounders [66]
Topics on the Beat:
Disasters [29]
Energy & Fuel [4]
Government [20]
Journalism & Media [15]
Laws & Regulations [21]
Military [67]
Nuclear Power & Radiation [68]
People & Population [35]
Planning & Growth [69]
Policy [7]
Technology [8]
Region:
National (U.S.) [9]
International [10]
Canada [63]
Asia [61]
Europe [70]
Visibility:
Public [13]
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