Publication Items

Diving Deeper on the Wetlands Beat Yields Groundbreaking Coverage [1]

Two journalists covering water policy used a wide range of reporting techniques, from FOIA appeals to on-the-ground reporting, to get at the heart of how problems with wetlands and waterways in the United States are tied to climate change concerns. Inside Story spoke with Hannah Northey and Kevin Bogardus of E&E News about their award-winning beat reporting.

SEJ Publication Types:
Inside Story [2]
Topics on the Beat:
Biodiversity [3]
Climate Change [4]
Disasters [5]
Diversity [6]
Economy & Business [7]
Environmental Health [8]
Environmental Justice [9]
Environmental Politics [10]
Government [11]
Health [12]
Infrastructure [13]
Journalism & Media [14]
Laws & Regulations [15]
Policy [16]
Pollution [17]
Science [18]
Technology [19]
Water & Oceans [20]
Region:
National (U.S.) [21]
Great Lakes (IL IN MI MN OH WI) [22]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [23]
Visibility:
Public [24]
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Winning Over Editors and Others with Award Winners’ Multimedia Nuggets [25]

If you’re looking to engage key constituencies for your journalism — whether editors, sources, students or people who have been marginalized — a new set of short videos from award-winning journalists (like KESQ's Angela Chen, at left) can serve as a helpful resource. Inside Story has a roadmap of how to make smart use of these video nuggets to, for instance, convince newsroom powerbrokers to give you more time and support for ambitious stories.

SEJ Publication Types:
Inside Story [2]
Topics on the Beat:
Agriculture [26]
Air [27]
Biodiversity [3]
Chemicals [28]
Climate Change [4]
Diversity [6]
Environmental Health [8]
Environmental Justice [9]
Environmental Politics [10]
Government [11]
Health [12]
Journalism & Media [14]
Natural Resources [29]
Policy [16]
Pollution [17]
Science [18]
Water & Oceans [20]
Wildlife [30]
Region:
National (U.S.) [21]
California [31]
Northwest (OR WA) [32]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [23]
International [33]
Visibility:
Public [24]
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Collaborative Journalism Project Reveals Inequities in Escaping Climate Change Hazards [34]

When U.S. communities become unlivable due to climate change impacts, can residents count on government relocation assistance — and are those most in need of help actually getting it? Those questions kickstarted a year-long investigation led by three high-powered journalism organizations. Now they’re sharing their reporting resources toolkit and inviting other journalists to widen the coverage with more local stories.

SEJ Publication Types:
Features [35]
Topics on the Beat:
Climate Change [4]
Disasters [5]
Diversity [6]
Economy & Business [7]
Environmental Health [8]
Environmental Justice [9]
Environmental Politics [10]
Government [11]
Health [12]
Infrastructure [13]
Journalism & Media [14]
Laws & Regulations [15]
People & Population [36]
Planning & Growth [37]
Policy [16]
Water & Oceans [20]
Region:
National (U.S.) [21]
Alaska and Hawaii [38]
California [31]
Great Lakes (IL IN MI MN OH WI) [22]
Mid-Atlantic (DC DE MD PA VA WV) [39]
Northeast (CT MA ME NH NJ NY RI VT) [40]
Northwest (OR WA) [32]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [23]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [41]
Visibility:
Public [24]
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Coal Ash — An Overlooked Toxic Story That Won’t Go Away [42]

Obama-era regulation of the toxic waste product coal ash, which was watered down in the face of resistance from coal and electric utilities and further weakened by the Trump administration, has meant many coal-fired power plants simply ignore disposal requirements. That’s per a new report that the latest TipSheet writes can offer journalists useful ways to report an overlooked environmental story in their area.

SEJ Publication Types:
TipSheet [43]
Topics on the Beat:
Energy & Fuel [44]
Environmental Health [8]
Environmental Politics [10]
Government [11]
Health [12]
Journalism & Media [14]
Laws & Regulations [15]
Pollution [17]
Waste [45]
Water & Oceans [20]
Region:
National (U.S.) [21]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [23]
Visibility:
Public [24]
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New Kolbert Volume Addresses Value of Human Efforts To Control Nature [46]

When engineers reversed the Chicago River, they also upended a hydrologic system that years later required electrification to repel an invasive species threatening a major fishery. This is but one example from the latest book by New Yorker writer Elizabeth Kolbert of the unintended consequences of human actions to dominate nature that may solve one problem only to create another. BookShelf contributor Gary Wilson has a review.

SEJ Publication Types:
BookShelf [47]
Topics on the Beat:
Climate Change [4]
Environmental Health [8]
Fish & Fisheries [48]
Infrastructure [13]
Natural Resources [29]
Planning & Growth [37]
Policy [16]
Science [18]
Technology [19]
Water & Oceans [20]
Wildlife [30]
Region:
National (U.S.) [21]
Great Lakes (IL IN MI MN OH WI) [22]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [23]
Visibility:
Public [24]
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Extreme Rainfall Offers Journalists a Deluge of Environment, Climate Stories [49]

The increased frequency and intensity of extreme precipitation presents environmental reporters with challenging coverage of flooding, property damage, insurance shortfalls and risk to human life, as well as about the climate change driving the downpours. The latest TipSheet offers context, story ideas and resources to cover such big storms in your area.

SEJ Publication Types:
TipSheet [43]
Topics on the Beat:
Climate Change [4]
Disasters [5]
Government [11]
Health [12]
Infrastructure [13]
Journalism & Media [14]
Laws & Regulations [15]
People & Population [36]
Planning & Growth [37]
Water & Oceans [20]
Region:
National (U.S.) [21]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [23]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [41]
Visibility:
Public [24]
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ESA Inaction Spells Trouble for an Iconic Grassland Bird [50]

The lesser prairie-chicken is in dire need of protection, but a decision on listing it under the Endangered Species Act is months overdue. Environmental reporter Mike Smith looks at the causes and potential consequences of the bureaucratic delay and muses on whether this unique bird will go the way of its even more imperiled relative, the Attwater’s prairie-chicken [51].

SEJ Publication Types:
Features [35]
Topics on the Beat:
Activism [52]
Agriculture [26]
Biodiversity [3]
Economy & Business [7]
Energy & Fuel [44]
Environmental Politics [10]
Government [11]
Laws & Regulations [15]
Natural Resources [29]
Policy [16]
Science [18]
Wildlife [30]
Region:
National (U.S.) [21]
Great Plains (IA KS ND NE MO SD) [53]
Mountain West (CO ID MT NV UT WY) [54]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [23]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [41]
Visibility:
Public [24]
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Could Biodiversity Be Bee’s Knees for Environmental Journalists This Fall? [55]

While a global gathering on biodiversity this winter will be news in itself, enterprising reporters can also find many biodiversity stories in their own backyards. The latest TipSheet offers insight into the domestic U.S. battle over endangered species, with a tale of a Tennessee dam, and a better understanding of the biodiversity-habitat connection. Plus, story ideas and reporting resources.

SEJ Publication Types:
TipSheet [43]
Topics on the Beat:
Activism [52]
Biodiversity [3]
Environmental Health [8]
Environmental Politics [10]
Fish & Fisheries [48]
Forests [56]
Government [11]
Journalism & Media [14]
Laws & Regulations [15]
Natural Resources [29]
Policy [16]
Water & Oceans [20]
Wildlife [30]
Region:
National (U.S.) [21]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [23]
International [33]
Visibility:
Public [24]
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On the Persistence of Ocean Plastics [57]

Concerns about seaborne plastic waste go back decades, but science writer Juli Berwald suggests that myths and disinformation about sources and solutions continue to cloud the waters. From lentil-sized nurdles to sprawling fishing nets, 200 million tons of plastic now fill the ocean and, for her, it has become evident that the ocean plastics story is really a land story. But will the newly signed international treaty on plastics offer relief?

SEJ Publication Types:
Features [35]
Topics on the Beat:
Activism [52]
Biodiversity [3]
Chemicals [28]
Climate Change [4]
Consumer [58]
Economy & Business [7]
Energy & Fuel [44]
Environmental Health [8]
Environmental Studies [59]
Fish & Fisheries [48]
Government [11]
Infrastructure [13]
Journalism & Media [14]
Laws & Regulations [15]
Natural Resources [29]
Policy [16]
Pollution [17]
Science [18]
Technology [19]
Waste [45]
Water & Oceans [20]
Wildlife [30]
Region:
National (U.S.) [21]
Alaska and Hawaii [38]
California [31]
Northeast (CT MA ME NH NJ NY RI VT) [40]
Northwest (OR WA) [32]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [23]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [41]
International [33]
Mexico [60]
Africa [61]
Asia [62]
Europe [63]
Visibility:
Public [24]
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Author Shares Unorthodox Look at the Ways of Water [64]

How water moves through the global ecosystem and shapes our landscapes is the subject of a must-read new book by writer Erica Gies, according to BookShelf editor Tom Henry. A significant part of water’s story is how humanity invariably fails when trying to manipulate it. But hope may reside with Gies’ various “water detectives,” who explore how to “let water go where it wants to go.”

SEJ Publication Types:
BookShelf [47]
Topics on the Beat:
Climate Change [4]
Environmental Health [8]
Natural Resources [29]
Water & Oceans [20]
Wildlife [30]
Region:
National (U.S.) [21]
California [31]
Great Lakes (IL IN MI MN OH WI) [22]
Great Plains (IA KS ND NE MO SD) [53]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [23]
International [33]
Canada [65]
Africa [61]
Asia [62]
Europe [63]
Middle East [66]
South America [67]
Visibility:
Public [24]
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