Publication Items

"Tigers Forever: Saving the World’s Most Endangered Big Cat" [1]

SEJ Publication Types:
BookShelf [2]
Topics on the Beat:
Biodiversity [3]
Climate Change [4]
Consumer [5]
Environmental Health [6]
Wildlife [7]
Region:
Asia [8]
Visibility:
Public [9]
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Between the Lines: Telling the Tiger’s Story [10]

SEJ Publication Types:
BookShelf [2]
Topics on the Beat:
Biodiversity [3]
Consumer [5]
Environmental Health [6]
Wildlife [7]
Region:
Asia [8]
Visibility:
Public [9]
- Read more about Between the Lines: Telling the Tiger’s Story [10]
Feds Raise Fee Barrier to FOIA about Shipbreaking of US Ship Abroad [11]

Maritime historian Jon Ottman has been denied a fee waiver on records he's requested about an aged U.S. Coast Guard cutter that was auctioned to a shipbreaker in Mexico without, he says, being thoroughly checked for toxic and hazardous materials. Photo: America's Queen — Coast Guard Cutter Storis, [12] courtesy US Coast Guard.

SEJ Publication Types:
WatchDog TipSheet [13]
Topics on the Beat:
Water & Oceans [14]
Environmental Politics [15]
Region:
Mexico [16]
Alaska and Hawaii [17]
Visibility:
Public [9]
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Environment Canada Denied 22% of Requests for Scientist Interviews in 2013 [18]

The startling admission only bolsters critics who say the conservative Harper government is suppressing science which does not support its politics — for example, its policies on global warming or oil sands.

SEJ Publication Types:
WatchDog TipSheet [13]
Topics on the Beat:
Science [19]
Environmental Politics [15]
Region:
Canada [20]
Visibility:
Public [9]
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Top Photo Winners Span the Globe [21]

SEJ Publication Types:
Features [22]
Topics on the Beat:
Journalism & Media [23]
Laws & Regulations [24]
Wildlife [7]
Region:
Africa [25]
Asia [8]
Visibility:
Public [9]
- Read more about Top Photo Winners Span the Globe [21]
Ugandan Farmers Face Climate Adaptation Challenges [26]

Special Report: Part Five

By LISA MEERTS-BRANDSMA

Uganda’s fertile soils and mild climate not only support a rich diversity of flora and fauna, but also allow 80 percent of the country’s land to be under cultivation, and more than 80 percent of its citizens to live as farmers.
Topics on the Beat:
Agriculture [27]
Climate Change [4]
Natural Resources [28]
Region:
Africa [25]
Visibility:
Public [9]
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Canadian Scientists Can't Speak Freely: Survey [29]

Eighty-six percent of the 4,069 scientists surveyed by the Professional Institute of the Public Service of Canada said "that, if faced with a political decision putting public health, safety or the environment at risk, they do not believe they could speak out without repercussions."

SEJ Publication Types:
WatchDog TipSheet [13]
Topics on the Beat:
Science [19]
Government [30]
Region:
Canada [20]
Visibility:
Public [9]
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"Gold Rush in the Jungle: The Race to Discover and Defend the Rarest Animals of Vietnam’s 'Lost World'" [31]

SEJ Publication Types:
BookShelf [2]
Topics on the Beat:
Biodiversity [3]
Journalism & Media [23]
People & Population [32]
Planning & Growth [33]
Wildlife [7]
Region:
Asia [8]
Visibility:
Public [9]
- Read more about "Gold Rush in the Jungle: The Race to Discover and Defend the Rarest Animals of Vietnam’s 'Lost World'" [31]
"Continental Divide: Wildlife, People, and the Border Wall" [34]

SEJ Publication Types:
BookShelf [2]
Topics on the Beat:
Biodiversity [3]
Journalism & Media [23]
People & Population [32]
Planning & Growth [33]
Region:
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [35]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [36]
Mexico [16]
Visibility:
Public [9]
- Read more about "Continental Divide: Wildlife, People, and the Border Wall" [34]
Canadian Info Watchdog Probes Harper Govt's Muzzling of Scientists [37]

Canada's Information Commissioner Suzanne Legault will be investigating the muzzling of Canadian scientists — a perennial complaint of SEJ's Canadian members who can not freely interview tax-funded scientists about subjects like climate. SEJ has twice urged Environment Canada to end such media policies, receiving no answer.

SEJ Publication Types:
WatchDog TipSheet [13]
Topics on the Beat:
Science [19]
Government [30]
Region:
Canada [20]
Visibility:
Public [9]
- Read more about Canadian Info Watchdog Probes Harper Govt's Muzzling of Scientists [37]

Special Report: Part Five

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