Publication Items

Why Now’s the Time To Tell a Good Fish Tale [1]

With fishing season underway across the United States, reporters have a line to an array of great, local environmental stories, whether about the recreation and tourism industries or overfishing and the health of regional ecosystems. The latest TipSheet has more than a dozen story ideas and reporting resources to help you reel in an angle of your own.

SEJ Publication Types:
TipSheet [2]
Topics on the Beat:
Activism [3]
Biodiversity [4]
Climate Change [5]
Environmental Health [6]
Fish & Fisheries [7]
Food [8]
Journalism & Media [9]
Natural Resources [10]
Water & Oceans [11]
Wildlife [12]
Region:
National (U.S.) [13]
Visibility:
Public [14]
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In West Bank, Hope for Future in Link Between Land and People [15]

On a tour of the West Bank this spring, Yessenia Funes found a region where the relationship between land and people serves as a counterweight to occupation and the threat of violence. For her Voices of Environmental Justice column, Funes exhorts fellow environment journalists to report on that struggle, through stories that touch on wildlife, wildfire, food, climate and more.

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Voices of Environmental Justice [16]
Topics on the Beat:
Agriculture [17]
Climate Change [5]
Environmental Justice [18]
Environmental Politics [19]
Food [8]
Government [20]
Journalism & Media [9]
Military [21]
People & Population [22]
Policy [23]
Water & Oceans [11]
Region:
International [24]
Middle East [25]
Visibility:
Public [14]
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Environmentalists Will Be Seeing Trump Forces in Court — Often [26]

The judiciary is looking to become a major environmental battleground for journalists to watch in the coming months and years, as activists confront the Trump administration over its deregulatory campaign. The new Issue Backgrounder maps out the action, explaining how key laws foster citizen suits, while numerous nonprofits are staffed up to sue. Plus, some ways to track the action.

SEJ Publication Types:
Backgrounders [27]
Topics on the Beat:
Activism [3]
Air [28]
Biodiversity [4]
Chemicals [29]
Climate Change [5]
Consumer [30]
Environmental Justice [18]
Environmental Politics [19]
Government [20]
Infrastructure [31]
Journalism & Media [9]
Laws & Regulations [32]
Natural Resources [10]
Policy [23]
Pollution [33]
Waste [34]
Water & Oceans [11]
Wildlife [12]
Region:
National (U.S.) [13]
Visibility:
Public [14]
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Can a City on Fire Be Photographed? Yes, Says One Photojournalist [35]

Will images of a burning Los Angeles last in our consciousness? EJ InSight editor Andrew Cullen makes a powerful argument that they will, illustrating the point with potent photographs of that disaster, as well as from recent hurricanes. An exploration of how photojournalists, working amid the destruction, strive to document not just the devastation but its deeper significance and its human toll.

SEJ Publication Types:
EJ InSight [36]
Topics on the Beat:
Climate Change [5]
Disasters [37]
Journalism & Media [9]
People & Population [22]
Region:
National (U.S.) [13]
California [38]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [39]
Visibility:
Public [14]
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Covering Wildfire — Expert Advice on Emerging Issues, Recurring Risks [40]

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 [41]
Topics on the Beat:
Climate Change [5]
Disasters [37]
Forests [42]
Government [20]
Health [43]
Infrastructure [31]
Journalism & Media [9]
Laws & Regulations [32]
People & Population [22]
Region:
National (U.S.) [13]
Alaska and Hawaii [44]
California [38]
Mountain West (CO ID MT NV UT WY) [45]
Northwest (OR WA) [46]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [47]
Visibility:
Public [14]
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As One Door Shuts on Climate Risk Data, News Outlet Opens Another [48]

Even as U.S. government agencies rush to wipe climate change information (or even the mention of the word climate) from their websites, others are racing to reconstruct lost data elsewhere. Case in point is a rescued database on climate risks preserved by The Guardian. The latest Reporter’s Toolbox has more on the preserved database and how best to use it.

SEJ Publication Types:
Reporters Toolbox [49]
Topics on the Beat:
Climate Change [5]
Disasters [37]
Environmental Health [6]
Environmental Politics [19]
Government [20]
Journalism & Media [9]
Policy [23]
Region:
National (U.S.) [13]
Visibility:
Public [14]
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#SEJ2025 — Confronting the Past, Surviving the Future [50]

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 [50] and register now [51], before the April 16 midnight deadline.

SEJ Publication Types:
SEJ News [52]
Topics on the Beat:
Agriculture [17]
Biodiversity [4]
Climate Change [5]
Energy & Fuel [53]
Environmental Health [6]
Environmental Justice [18]
Environmental Politics [19]
Fish & Fisheries [7]
Food [8]
Government [20]
Health [43]
Journalism & Media [9]
Natural Resources [10]
People & Population [22]
Planning & Growth [54]
Policy [23]
Pollution [33]
Science [55]
Water & Oceans [11]
Wildlife [12]
Region:
National (U.S.) [13]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [47]
International [24]
Mexico [56]
Visibility:
Public [14]
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With Scientific Research Under Attack, Journalists Must Up Their Game [57]

The Trump administration’s offensive against evidence-based research is making clear, accurate reporting on science more important than ever — because people who understand how scientific research works and what it tells us are less likely to be duped by misinformation or pseudoscience. SciLine director Matt DeRienzo on the challenges of the time and new resources to help journalists understand and explain evidence-based research.

SEJ Publication Types:
Features [41]
Topics on the Beat:
Climate Change [5]
Consumer [30]
Environmental Studies [58]
Government [20]
Health [43]
Journalism & Media [9]
Laws & Regulations [32]
Pollution [33]
Science [55]
Region:
National (U.S.) [13]
Visibility:
Public [14]
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U.S. Fuel Exports To Profit Industry, Slam Consumers [59]

‘Energy dominance’ is a Trump catchphrase whose meaning may be vague — since the U.S. is already the world’s top producer of oil and natural gas. But one thing that does seem clear, per the new Backgrounder, is that a flood of new U.S. permits to export gas will likely mean higher energy prices for U.S. customers.

SEJ Publication Types:
Backgrounders [27]
Topics on the Beat:
Climate Change [5]
Consumer [30]
Energy & Fuel [53]
Environmental Politics [19]
Policy [23]
Region:
National (U.S.) [13]
International [24]
Canada [60]
Mexico [56]
Europe [61]
Visibility:
Public [14]
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Desperately Seeking Data? OECD Has Loads [62]

If the possibility of a politically driven dearth of data for your climate and environment reporting has you on edge, the new Reporter’s Toolbox just may have something to soothe your nerves: A data source from beyond the grasp of the Trump administration and outside the boundaries of the United States. Take a quick tour of environmental data from the OECD.

SEJ Publication Types:
Reporters Toolbox [49]
Topics on the Beat:
Agriculture [17]
Air [28]
Biodiversity [4]
Chemicals [29]
Climate Change [5]
Energy & Fuel [53]
Environmental Studies [58]
Fish & Fisheries [7]
Health [43]
Journalism & Media [9]
Natural Resources [10]
Pollution [33]
Transportation [63]
Waste [34]
Water & Oceans [11]
Region:
National (U.S.) [13]
International [24]
Europe [61]
Visibility:
Public [14]
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