Publication Items

Corporations and Climate Change Toolbox [1]

Corporations may be taking steps to address climate change, but are they moving big enough and fast enough? As part of a special initiative from the Society of Environmental Journalists, we offer a resource toolbox on how to cover business-based climate solutions. Plus, insights from a related tipsheet [2].

SEJ Publication Types:
Special Reports [3]
Topics on the Beat:
Climate Change [4]
Economy & Business [5]
Energy & Fuel [6]
Journalism & Media [7]
Policy [8]
Region:
National (U.S.) [9]
International [10]
Visibility:
Public [11]
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Measuring the Impact of Corporate Commitments [12]

Corporations may be taking steps to address climate change, but are they moving big enough and fast enough? As part of a special initiative from the Society of Environmental Journalists, we offer a tipsheet from journalist Megan Myscofski on how to cover business-based climate solutions. Get additional resources [13] and watch this video from an earlier webinar [14]. And see the full Covering Climate Solutions special report [15].

SEJ Publication Types:
Special Reports [3]
Topics on the Beat:
Climate Change [4]
Economy & Business [5]
Energy & Fuel [6]
Journalism & Media [7]
Policy [8]
Region:
National (U.S.) [9]
International [10]
Visibility:
Public [11]
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Bringing the Climate Crisis Story Home in 2023 [16]

Even as national governments scramble to address climate change, including with a new global summit planned for next fall, environmental journalists may find that action (or inaction) by state and local governments will yield an abundance of climate stories in the year ahead. The latest TipSheet offers numerous questions to ask, story ideas and resources to mine for local climate reporting.

SEJ Publication Types:
TipSheet [17]
Topics on the Beat:
Climate Change [4]
Energy & Fuel [6]
Environmental Politics [18]
Government [19]
Journalism & Media [7]
Policy [8]
Region:
National (U.S.) [9]
International [10]
Visibility:
Public [11]
- Read more about Bringing the Climate Crisis Story Home in 2023 [16]
Disinformation Presents New Challenges to Environmental Journalists [20]

An explosion of deliberately misleading information has hit the environmental journalism beat, argues the new Backgrounder. A look at how today’s untruth industry has evolved from that of the past, particularly in the area of climate change, and how reporters have now turned it into its own specialty coverage area. Plus, seven tips on what you can do to handle disinformation on your beat.

SEJ Publication Types:
Backgrounders [21]
Topics on the Beat:
Climate Change [4]
Economy & Business [5]
Environmental Politics [18]
Environmental Studies [22]
Journalism & Media [7]
Policy [8]
Science [23]
Region:
National (U.S.) [9]
Visibility:
Public [11]
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Weather Nerd ‘Looks Up’ and Finds Science, Meaning in Stormy Skies [24]

Gen Z weather hotshot Matthew Cappucci recounts his rapid, if uneven, rise into major media meteorology in his new book, “Looking Up.” Along the way, he talks about weather — and the science behind it — in a way that reporters who cover storms can make good use of. Jenny Weeks reviews the volume for BookShelf.

SEJ Publication Types:
BookShelf [25]
Topics on the Beat:
Climate Change [4]
Disasters [26]
Science [23]
Region:
National (U.S.) [9]
Visibility:
Public [11]
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As Concern Over Methane Mounts, Emission Controls Yield Stories [27]

While carbon dioxide is the greenhouse gas most often in the news, methane has greater warming power and accounts for a big chunk of the current increase in global warming. Now, growing regulatory pressure may help shift that focus and could drive more local environmental reporting, per the latest TipSheet. The backstory, plus reporting ideas and resources.

SEJ Publication Types:
TipSheet [17]
Topics on the Beat:
Agriculture [28]
Air [29]
Climate Change [4]
Energy & Fuel [6]
Environmental Health [30]
Environmental Politics [18]
Journalism & Media [7]
Laws & Regulations [31]
Natural Resources [32]
Policy [8]
Pollution [33]
Waste [34]
Region:
National (U.S.) [9]
International [10]
Visibility:
Public [11]
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Collaborative Journalism Project Reveals Inequities in Escaping Climate Change Hazards [35]

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 [36]
Topics on the Beat:
Climate Change [4]
Disasters [26]
Diversity [37]
Economy & Business [5]
Environmental Health [30]
Environmental Justice [38]
Environmental Politics [18]
Government [19]
Health [39]
Infrastructure [40]
Journalism & Media [7]
Laws & Regulations [31]
People & Population [41]
Planning & Growth [42]
Policy [8]
Water & Oceans [43]
Region:
National (U.S.) [9]
Alaska and Hawaii [44]
California [45]
Great Lakes (IL IN MI MN OH WI) [46]
Mid-Atlantic (DC DE MD PA VA WV) [47]
Northeast (CT MA ME NH NJ NY RI VT) [48]
Northwest (OR WA) [49]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [50]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [51]
Visibility:
Public [11]
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New ‘Climate Trace’ Emissions Database Unveiled at COP27 [52]

A new way for journalists to get more accurate numbers on global greenhouse gas emissions was introduced by former Vice President Al Gore at the recent United Nations’ climate change gathering in Egypt. Reporter’s Toolbox looks under the hood of Climate Trace, which is the result of work by more than 100 collaborators and compiles data from some 300 specialized satellites and 11,000 sensors.

SEJ Publication Types:
Reporters Toolbox [53]
Topics on the Beat:
Climate Change [4]
Journalism & Media [7]
Technology [54]
Region:
National (U.S.) [9]
International [10]
Visibility:
Public [11]
- Read more about New ‘Climate Trace’ Emissions Database Unveiled at COP27 [52]
New Kolbert Volume Addresses Value of Human Efforts To Control Nature [55]

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 [25]
Topics on the Beat:
Climate Change [4]
Environmental Health [30]
Fish & Fisheries [56]
Infrastructure [40]
Natural Resources [32]
Planning & Growth [42]
Policy [8]
Science [23]
Technology [54]
Water & Oceans [43]
Wildlife [57]
Region:
National (U.S.) [9]
Great Lakes (IL IN MI MN OH WI) [46]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [50]
Visibility:
Public [11]
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Journalism Industry Program Supports Reporting on Workers — and Work — in a Warming World [58]

As the economic impacts of climate change intensify, reporting on how individuals are affected, particularly in the Global South, is lagging. Veteran journalist Christine Spolar at The Pulitzer Center for Crisis Reporting details a new initiative to encourage journalists to fill this gap. The story of recent grantees Bhasker Tripathi and Susan Schulman, who have tracked job losses and migrations tied to climate change in India and Iraq.

SEJ Publication Types:
Features [36]
Topics on the Beat:
Activism [59]
Agriculture [28]
Climate Change [4]
Disasters [26]
Economy & Business [5]
Environmental Justice [38]
Environmental Politics [18]
Food [60]
Government [19]
Health [39]
Journalism & Media [7]
People & Population [41]
Policy [8]
Technology [54]
Water & Oceans [43]
Region:
National (U.S.) [9]
International [10]
Africa [61]
Asia [62]
Middle East [63]
Visibility:
Public [11]
- Read more about Journalism Industry Program Supports Reporting on Workers — and Work — in a Warming World [58]

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