Publication Items

"The Hidden Half of Nature: The Microbial Roots of Life and Health" [1]

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BookShelf [2]
Topics on the Beat:
Agriculture [3]
Environmental Health [4]
Health [5]
Science [6]
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Public [7]
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"DDT Wars: Rescuing Our National Bird, Preventing Cancer, and Creating the Environmental Defense Fund" [8]

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BookShelf [2]
Topics on the Beat:
Activism [9]
Chemicals [10]
Laws & Regulations [11]
Wildlife [12]
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Public [7]
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"DDT Wars: Rescuing Our National Bird, Preventing Cancer, and Creating the Environmental Defense Fund" [13]

In April of 1963, Charles Wurster anda small group of fellow scientists decidedthey would monitor a planned DDTspraying in Hanover, N.H. They hadn’tread Rachel Carson’s “Silent Spring,” published the year before; norhad they looked at much of the scientific literature.“We were unbiased and empty-headed,” Wurster recalls in acompelling new memoir, “DDT Wars,” about the early days of theEnvironmental Defense Fund and the fight to ban most uses of persistentorganic pollutants such as DDT.With a Ph.D.
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Public [7]
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"Almost Anywhere: Road Trip Ruminations on Love, Nature, National Parks, and Nonsense" [14]

SEJ Publication Types:
BookShelf [2]
Topics on the Beat:
Journalism & Media [15]
Natural Resources [16]
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Public [7]
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Journalism and Science Students Take to Field Together [17]

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EJ Academy [18]
Topics on the Beat:
Environmental Studies [19]
Journalism & Media [15]
Science [6]
Water & Oceans [20]
Region:
Great Lakes (IL IN MI MN OH WI) [21]
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Public [7]
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Between the Lines: Author Spends Two Decades ‘Hooked on a Character’ [22]

Rarely does a writer get so deeply into the heart of his or her subject while also avoiding the pitfalls of sentimentality. So began the judges’ comments for “Untamed: The Wildest Woman in America and the Fight for Cumberland Island,” winner of SEJ’s 2015 Rachel Carson Environment Book Award. [23] The book’s author, Will Harlan, spent 19 years developing a bold, unflinching portrayal of Cumberland Island, Ga.’s most ardent defender, the brilliant-yet-eccentric Carol Ruckdeschel. For the latest edition of SEJournal’s Between the Lines author Q & A, Harlan spoke with our book editor, Tom Henry.

SEJ Publication Types:
BookShelf [2]
Topics on the Beat:
Activism [9]
Environmental Studies [19]
Journalism & Media [15]
Natural Resources [16]
Water & Oceans [20]
Wildlife [12]
Region:
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [24]
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Public [7]
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The Life, and Why I’m Sticking It Out (for Now) [25]

Journalist and author Angela Posada-Swafford shares the ups and downs of her two-decades-long (so far) freelance life based in Florida.

SEJ Publication Types:
Freelance Files [26]
Topics on the Beat:
Journalism & Media [15]
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Public [7]
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Congressional Think Tank Reports Leaked Again [27]

Although you, as a taxpayer, pay for reports by the Congressional Research Service, Congress does not allow you to read them. Fortunately, somebody leaked these reports of interest to environmental journalists.

SEJ Publication Types:
WatchDog TipSheet [28]
Topics on the Beat:
Energy & Fuel [29]
Fish & Fisheries [30]
Food [31]
Natural Resources [16]
Technology [32]
Transportation [33]
Water & Oceans [20]
Visibility:
Public [7]
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National Atlas Is a Trove for Environmental Journalism Projects [34]

Because it is digital, the Atlas can be overlaid with many kinds of information: data on abandoned mines, coalfields, butterflies, aquifers, or invasive plants — to mention only a few examples. And because scale is variable, you can zoom in or out to customize it to your story and audience.

SEJ Publication Types:
WatchDog TipSheet [28]
Topics on the Beat:
Technology [32]
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Public [7]
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Where's That Meat From? One Problem with Trade Treaties [35]

Do consumers have a right to know where their food comes from? What if there is a federal law decreeing that they have that right? Not anymore. None of that matters. International trade treaties — nowadays often negotiated in secret — trump United States law aimed at protecting consumers.

SEJ Publication Types:
WatchDog TipSheet [28]
Topics on the Beat:
Agriculture [3]
Economy & Business [36]
Food [31]
Health [5]
Laws & Regulations [11]
Visibility:
Public [7]
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