Publication Items

Annual AAAS Meeting Offers Many Environmental Stories [1]

This year's meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Feb 16-20 in Vancouver, BC, offers dozens of sessions on environmental topics — climate change, mineral resource dependency, water, critique of science journalism, disaster recovery, science integrity in government agencies, and more.
SEJ Publication Types:
TipSheet [2]
Topics on the Beat:
Science [3]
Region:
Canada [4]
Visibility:
Public [5]
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Tap the Encyclopedia of Life's Vast Reservoir of Knowledge [6]

From the latest issue of SEJ's biweekly TipSheet: EOL, which is searchable by both common and scientific terms, has vastly expanded its content since its launch in 2008 and now provides extensive nitty-gritty on about half of all described species, as laid out in more than 950,000 pages and more than 760,000 images.

SEJ Publication Types:
TipSheet [2]
Topics on the Beat:
Wildlife [7]
Science [3]
Biodiversity [8]
Region:
International [9]
Visibility:
Public [5]
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Big Canadian Fish Farm Firm Seeks to Criminalize, Silence Environmental Critics [10]

Mainstream Canada, the nation's second-largest farmed-salmon producer — and a subsidiary of an even more gargantuan Danish transnational holding company — will try to crush and silence environmental activist Don Staniford, who has had the temerity to criticize their operations publicly.
SEJ Publication Types:
WatchDog TipSheet [11]
Topics on the Beat:
Water & Oceans [12]
Fish & Fisheries [13]
Activism [14]
Region:
Canada [4]
Visibility:
Public [5]
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Access to Environmental Info Will Be an Issue at Rio+20 [15]

In June 2012, the nations of the world will convene in Rio de Janiero for the 20th anniversary of the landmark 1992 Rio Conference on Environment and Development that set the stage for a number of important treaties, including the Montreal Protocol to protect the ozone layer and the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change.
SEJ Publication Types:
WatchDog TipSheet [11]
Topics on the Beat:
Policy [16]
Planning & Growth [17]
Climate Change [18]
Region:
South America [19]
Visibility:
Public [5]
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Report: Canada Has Hot Geothermal Prospects [20]

The Geological Survey of Canada states the best prospects are in British Columbia, Alberta, Yukon, and the westernmost portion of the Northwest Territories, with some good potential also in New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Saskatchewan, and Manitoba, and modest prospects in many other parts of the country.
SEJ Publication Types:
TipSheet [2]
Topics on the Beat:
Energy & Fuel [21]
Region:
Canada [4]
Visibility:
Public [5]
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Appeals Court Orders Release of Timber-Trade Records [22]

Details and documents on the 2006 US-Canada Softwood Lumber Agreement will be released after a federal appeals court ruled Sept. 16, 2011, against claims by the Office of the US Trade Representative that the documents, sought by the Center for Biological Diversity and Conservation Northwest, were exempt from the Freedom of Information Act.
SEJ Publication Types:
WatchDog TipSheet [11]
Topics on the Beat:
Forests [23]
Economy & Business [24]
Region:
National (U.S.) [25]
Canada [4]
Visibility:
Public [5]
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Nuclear Experts Assess How Well Media Covered Fukushima [26]

SEJ Publication Types:
Features [27]
Topics on the Beat:
Disasters [28]
Nuclear Power & Radiation [29]
Region:
Asia [30]
Visibility:
Public [5]
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NRC Publishes List of FOIA Requests Related to Japan Nuke Meltdown [31]

By publishing the list promptly, NRC lived up to the "reading room" provisions of FOIA — which require agencies to actively publish information likely to be the subject of multiple FOIA requests. As a reporter, see what your competitors are doing. As a FOIA requester, you may learn a lot about how to write a FOIA letter that is realistic yet effective.
SEJ Publication Types:
WatchDog TipSheet [11]
Topics on the Beat:
Nuclear Power & Radiation [29]
Energy & Fuel [21]
Disasters [28]
Region:
Asia [30]
Visibility:
Public [5]
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Japan Nuclear Crisis: Non-Disclosure Hides Multitude of Sins [32]

As a quake-stricken Japanese nuclear plant continues to spew radiation into the environment, journalists and people across the world are getting an unwelcome lesson in how secrecy can threaten people's health and safety. A New York Times team finally on March 16 did the story on the withholding of information. Read their coverage, as well as others.
SEJ Publication Types:
WatchDog TipSheet [11]
Topics on the Beat:
Pollution [33]
Energy & Fuel [21]
Disasters [28]
Region:
Asia [30]
Visibility:
Public [5]
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"Japan Meltdown: Could It Happen Here?" [34]

The aging fleet of US nuclear power reactors have some technological similarities to the reactors failing in Japan. Could similar loss-of-cooling events happen at some US reactors — whether caused by earthquake, tsunami, terrorist attack, electrical outage, flooding, equipment failure, or some other problem?
SEJ Publication Types:
TipSheet [2]
Topics on the Beat:
People & Population [35]
Energy & Fuel [21]
Disasters [28]
Region:
Asia [30]
Visibility:
Public [5]
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