Publication Items

Student Newsroom Returns for Coverage of #SEJ2025 [1]

More than two dozen student reporters and editors from The Arizona Republic will provide coverage of the 34th annual Society of Environmental Journalists conference at Arizona State University from April 23-26. The team will report numerous sessions, workshops, plenaries and tours, with SEJournal carrying special reports in its April 30 and May 7 issues. More on this year’s student newsroom [1] and the conference [2] itself. Stay tuned!

SEJ Publication Types:
SEJ News [3]
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Journalism & Media [4]
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National (U.S.) [5]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [6]
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Public [7]
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Covering Wildfire — Expert Advice on Emerging Issues, Recurring Risks [8]

With wildfires becoming more extreme in every way, reporters covering them face new challenges along with familiar hazards. A pair of experienced wildfire journalists and others on the front lines offer advice on dealing with access restrictions, on-the-ground dangers, toxic exposure risks and traumatized survivors — as climate change speeds up the news cycle and misinformation muddies the reporting landscape.

SEJ Publication Types:
Features [9]
Topics on the Beat:
Climate Change [10]
Disasters [11]
Forests [12]
Government [13]
Health [14]
Infrastructure [15]
Journalism & Media [4]
Laws & Regulations [16]
People & Population [17]
Region:
National (U.S.) [5]
Alaska and Hawaii [18]
California [19]
Mountain West (CO ID MT NV UT WY) [20]
Northwest (OR WA) [21]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [6]
Visibility:
Public [7]
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#SEJ2025 — Confronting the Past, Surviving the Future [22]

Next week, hundreds of environmental journalists are expected to gather in Arizona for #SEJ2025, the Society of Environmental Journalists’ expansive annual conference. Co-chair Kendal Blust has highlights of the four-day event, plus how the challenges facing the Southwest are those of communities across the United States, and why now is a critical time for journalists to come together. Read her rundown [22] and register now [23], before the April 16 midnight deadline.

SEJ Publication Types:
SEJ News [3]
Topics on the Beat:
Agriculture [24]
Biodiversity [25]
Climate Change [10]
Energy & Fuel [26]
Environmental Health [27]
Environmental Justice [28]
Environmental Politics [29]
Fish & Fisheries [30]
Food [31]
Government [13]
Health [14]
Journalism & Media [4]
Natural Resources [32]
People & Population [17]
Planning & Growth [33]
Policy [34]
Pollution [35]
Science [36]
Water & Oceans [37]
Wildlife [38]
Region:
National (U.S.) [5]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [6]
International [39]
Mexico [40]
Visibility:
Public [7]
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Follow the Money … for Lobbying State Legislatures [41]

With many states dominated by a few powerful industries — whether oil, mining or agriculture — the influence of campaign dollars can have an outsize effect on legislation, even to the point of corruption, notes the latest Reporter’s Toolbox. So while the U.S. Congress may be languishing, environmental journalists can dig up stories on lobbying at the state level using a powerful data source.

SEJ Publication Types:
Reporters Toolbox [42]
Topics on the Beat:
Activism [43]
Agriculture [24]
Economy & Business [44]
Energy & Fuel [26]
Environmental Politics [29]
Government [13]
Journalism & Media [4]
Laws & Regulations [16]
Policy [34]
Region:
National (U.S.) [5]
Great Plains (IA KS ND NE MO SD) [45]
Mid-Atlantic (DC DE MD PA VA WV) [46]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [6]
Visibility:
Public [7]
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New Angle for Reporting on Oil and Gas Industry — Radioactive Waste [47]

Industry experts and government regulators have long known that radionuclides reside in oil and natural gas. Yet radioactive emissions and waste continue to threaten the lives of workers and community members across the country. Investigative journalist Justin Nobel on the opportunities and urgent need for reporters to drill into a story steeped in questions of accountability, health and justice.

SEJ Publication Types:
Features [9]
Topics on the Beat:
Activism [43]
Air [48]
Chemicals [49]
Climate Change [10]
Consumer [50]
Economy & Business [44]
Energy & Fuel [26]
Environmental Health [27]
Environmental Politics [29]
Environmental Studies [51]
Government [13]
Health [14]
Journalism & Media [4]
Laws & Regulations [16]
Natural Resources [32]
Nuclear Power & Radiation [52]
People & Population [17]
Policy [34]
Pollution [35]
Science [36]
Technology [53]
Waste [54]
Water & Oceans [37]
Region:
National (U.S.) [5]
Great Lakes (IL IN MI MN OH WI) [55]
Great Plains (IA KS ND NE MO SD) [45]
Mid-Atlantic (DC DE MD PA VA WV) [46]
Mountain West (CO ID MT NV UT WY) [20]
Northeast (CT MA ME NH NJ NY RI VT) [56]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [57]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [6]
International [39]
Canada [58]
South America [59]
Visibility:
Public [7]
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Telling the Stories of the Silent Sentinels [60]

To many, plants are a merely green backdrop, indistinguishable and inconsequential. But, freelancer Karen Mockler says that such “plant blindness” belies an urgent need for our notice. More than a third of the world’s trees and thousands of other plant species face extinction. Their plight — and their many blessings — offer perceptive journalists a wealth of reporting and storytelling opportunities. Mockler on why to write about plants.

SEJ Publication Types:
Features [9]
Topics on the Beat:
Agriculture [24]
Air [48]
Biodiversity [25]
Climate Change [10]
Environmental Health [27]
Environmental Justice [28]
Environmental Politics [29]
Environmental Studies [51]
Food [31]
Forests [12]
Government [13]
Health [14]
Journalism & Media [4]
Laws & Regulations [16]
Natural Resources [32]
Pollution [35]
Religion, Faith and Spirituality [61]
Science [36]
Water & Oceans [37]
Wildlife [38]
Region:
National (U.S.) [5]
California [19]
Northwest (OR WA) [21]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [6]
International [39]
Canada [58]
Visibility:
Public [7]
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How Climate Change Complicates the Refugee Crisis [62]

The displacement of populations by climate impacts, while not a new phenomenon in human history, is worsening in the face of global warming’s extreme weather patterns. Yet the extensive international regime to aid refugees doesn’t cover those migrating due to flooding, drought, natural disasters or climate change. Backgrounder considers the implications and how nations will respond to the new realities.

SEJ Publication Types:
Backgrounders [63]
Topics on the Beat:
Climate Change [10]
Disasters [11]
Environmental Politics [29]
People & Population [17]
Policy [34]
Region:
National (U.S.) [5]
California [19]
Great Plains (IA KS ND NE MO SD) [45]
Mid-Atlantic (DC DE MD PA VA WV) [46]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [57]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [6]
International [39]
Mexico [40]
Africa [64]
Antarctica & Arctic [65]
Asia [66]
Central America & the Caribbean [67]
Europe [68]
Middle East [69]
South America [59]
Visibility:
Public [7]
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Investigation Explores Dueling Narratives for Addressing Climate Change [70]

Is carbon capture a climate solution or a dangerous distraction? That was the question that Inside Climate News reporter Nicholas Kusnetz asked in his award-winning explanatory series, “Pipe Dreams.” For Inside Story, Kusnetz talks of the challenges of writing about a technology that largely doesn’t yet exist, and the variety of story forms he used to explore the reality of industry promises.

SEJ Publication Types:
Inside Story [71]
Topics on the Beat:
Climate Change [10]
Economy & Business [44]
Energy & Fuel [26]
Environmental Justice [28]
Environmental Politics [29]
Government [13]
Infrastructure [15]
Journalism & Media [4]
Laws & Regulations [16]
Natural Resources [32]
People & Population [17]
Policy [34]
Pollution [35]
Technology [53]
Region:
National (U.S.) [5]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [6]
International [39]
Visibility:
Public [7]
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Sea Surface Temperature Data Tells Many Environmental Stories [72]

With hurricane season expected to kick into high gear, a key data source for reporters is sea surface temperatures. But this widely available information can also tell reporters something about many other water-related environment stories, whether algal blooms, bacterial risks to public health or the prospects for entire estuarine systems. The latest Reporter’s Toolbox helps you dip your toe into this important data pool.

SEJ Publication Types:
Reporters Toolbox [42]
Topics on the Beat:
Climate Change [10]
Environmental Health [27]
Fish & Fisheries [30]
Health [14]
Journalism & Media [4]
Science [36]
Water & Oceans [37]
Region:
National (U.S.) [5]
Mid-Atlantic (DC DE MD PA VA WV) [46]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [57]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [6]
International [39]
Visibility:
Public [7]
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‘Green’ Steel: Five Things To Know About the U.S. Transition [73]

Plans for two new U.S. facilities that will use hydrogen instead of coal to make steel hold the promise of decarbonizing this essential but dirty industry. But don’t expect overnight change. Reporter Maria Gallucci looks at the complexities of making the switch, from ditching the blast furnace to reducing pollution all along the supply chain.

SEJ Publication Types:
Features [9]
Topics on the Beat:
Activism [43]
Air [48]
Chemicals [49]
Climate Change [10]
Economy & Business [44]
Energy & Fuel [26]
Environmental Health [27]
Environmental Justice [28]
Environmental Politics [29]
Government [13]
Natural Resources [32]
Policy [34]
Pollution [35]
Science [36]
Technology [53]
Region:
National (U.S.) [5]
Great Lakes (IL IN MI MN OH WI) [55]
Mid-Atlantic (DC DE MD PA VA WV) [46]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [6]
International [39]
Europe [68]
Visibility:
Public [7]
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