Publication Items

Is the South Confronting Its Climate Threats? [1]

The South is ground zero for the climate crisis in the United States, yet little is being done to prevent impacts or protect communities. Will the South tap its potential to be part of the solution? Our special report, “Covering Your Climate: The South,” helps reporters cover the region, starting with a backgrounder on climate concerns from Texas to Virginia.

SEJ Publication Types:
Special Reports [2]
Topics on the Beat:
Activism [3]
Agriculture [4]
Air [5]
Biodiversity [6]
Climate Change [7]
Consumer [8]
Disasters [9]
Economy & Business [10]
Energy & Fuel [11]
Environmental Health [12]
Environmental Politics [13]
Government [14]
Health [15]
Journalism & Media [16]
Laws & Regulations [17]
Natural Resources [18]
Nuclear Power & Radiation [19]
People & Population [20]
Planning & Growth [21]
Policy [22]
Pollution [23]
Science [24]
Technology [25]
Transportation [26]
Water & Oceans [27]
Region:
National (U.S.) [28]
Mid-Atlantic (DC DE MD PA VA WV) [29]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [30]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [31]
Visibility:
Public [32]
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Biden Faces Environmental Challenges on Multiple International Treaties [33]

As the incoming Biden administration prepares to re-engage on the global stage, environment-related treaties are high on the agenda. The latest Backgrounder, part of our 2021 Guide [34], takes a closer look at 10-plus top treaties, including those focused on climate change, biodiversity, plastics pollution, airplane emissions, the future of the Arctic and more.

SEJ Publication Types:
Backgrounders [35]
Topics on the Beat:
Activism [3]
Air [5]
Biodiversity [6]
Chemicals [36]
Climate Change [7]
Economy & Business [10]
Energy & Fuel [11]
Environmental Politics [13]
Forests [37]
Government [14]
Laws & Regulations [17]
Natural Resources [18]
Policy [22]
Pollution [23]
Transportation [26]
Waste [38]
Water & Oceans [27]
Wildlife [39]
Region:
National (U.S.) [28]
International [40]
Visibility:
Public [32]
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Environmental Justice Stories Will Keep Proliferating in 2021 [41]

The surging racial justice movement has reenergized aspirations to correct the environmental injustices that blemish countless underprivileged U.S. communities. The new TipSheet, another part of our 2021 Guide [34], scans the landscape of trouble spots, from urban to rural, industrial zones to Superfund sites. Plus, story ideas and reporting resources.

SEJ Publication Types:
TipSheet [42]
Topics on the Beat:
Activism [3]
Air [5]
Chemicals [36]
Environmental Health [12]
Environmental Politics [13]
Government [14]
Health [15]
Journalism & Media [16]
People & Population [20]
Policy [22]
Pollution [23]
Waste [38]
Water & Oceans [27]
Region:
National (U.S.) [28]
Great Lakes (IL IN MI MN OH WI) [43]
Great Plains (IA KS ND NE MO SD) [44]
Mid-Atlantic (DC DE MD PA VA WV) [29]
Mountain West (CO ID MT NV UT WY) [45]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [30]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [31]
International [40]
Mexico [46]
Visibility:
Public [32]
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“You Can’t Fool Mother Nature: The Once and Future Triumph of Environmentalism” [47]

It’s been a half-century since the first Earth Day in 1970 and a new book from an old hand catalogues the advances and the setbacks in the decades since. BookShelf contributor Francesca Lyman reviews “You Can’t Fool Mother Nature: The Once and Future Triumph of Environmentalism,” and explores how a long view from a veteran environmentalist informs the field of environmental reporting.

SEJ Publication Types:
BookShelf [48]
Topics on the Beat:
Activism [3]
Air [5]
Climate Change [7]
Consumer [8]
Environmental Politics [13]
Journalism & Media [16]
Laws & Regulations [17]
Natural Resources [18]
People & Population [20]
Policy [22]
Pollution [23]
Waste [38]
Water & Oceans [27]
Region:
National (U.S.) [28]
Visibility:
Public [32]
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2021 Journalists’ Guide to Energy & Environment [34]

SEJournal looks ahead to key issues in the coming year with the launch of its annual "Journalists’ Guide to Energy & Environment." Check out year-ahead Backgrounders, TipSheets and a WatchDog, and stay tuned as we add to the special report in early 2021. Plus, watch for more on the guide at the annual roundtable [49] organized by the Society of Environmental Journalists, hosted (this year virtually, on Jan 27) by National Geographic Society and co-sponsored by the Wilson Center.

SEJ Publication Types:
SEJ News [50]
Region:
National (U.S.) [28]
International [40]
Visibility:
Public [32]
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Searching for Narrative in the Groundwater Where It Happens [51]

A graduate field scientist-cum-multimedia storyteller trains her eye on the confounding challenges of western water, with award-winning student reporting on three family farms that face the draining of critical groundwater basins. Could land that drought makes untenable for farming be restored as habitat for endangered species? That, plus how the “ladder of abstraction” helped her tell the tale. The most recent entry in EJ Academy.

SEJ Publication Types:
EJ Academy [52]
Topics on the Beat:
Agriculture [4]
Environmental Health [12]
Food [53]
Journalism & Media [16]
Natural Resources [18]
Planning & Growth [21]
Water & Oceans [27]
Region:
National (U.S.) [28]
California [54]
Visibility:
Public [32]
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Grant Gives Reporter Time To Immerse in Sewage Story [55]

The “underworld” of sewage treatment had fascinated one journalist for years. But it was only after winning a reporting grant that Christine Woodside had the luxury of spending dozens of hours to focus on how one old, malfunctioning plant left a local community appalled and angered. Woodside shares the details in the latest installment of SEJournal’s newest column, FEJ StoryLog.

SEJ Publication Types:
FEJ StoryLog [56]
Topics on the Beat:
Activism [3]
Environmental Health [12]
Journalism & Media [16]
People & Population [20]
Pollution [23]
Waste [38]
Water & Oceans [27]
Region:
National (U.S.) [28]
Northeast (CT MA ME NH NJ NY RI VT) [57]
Visibility:
Public [32]
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Climate Change Policy Likely To Permeate Executive Under Biden [58]

What will climate change policy look like under a Biden administration? If nothing else, it appears it will be broadly based across a wide range of executive branch operations. This week’s TipSheet walks you through the top 10 federal departments, agencies and spending centers and how they will pivot to focus on global warming.

SEJ Publication Types:
TipSheet [42]
Topics on the Beat:
Agriculture [4]
Air [5]
Chemicals [36]
Economy & Business [10]
Energy & Fuel [11]
Environmental Politics [13]
Forests [37]
Government [14]
Laws & Regulations [17]
Military [59]
Natural Resources [18]
Nuclear Power & Radiation [19]
Policy [22]
Pollution [23]
Science [24]
Technology [25]
Transportation [26]
Region:
National (U.S.) [28]
International [40]
Visibility:
Public [32]
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Gratitude and Grit at the End of 2020 [60]

That's what SEJ Board President Meera Subramanian offers — and asks for — in her latest report on the state of the Society of Environmental Journalists. Plus, board elections, bylaw amendments and webinar initiatives.

SEJ Publication Types:
SEJ Presidents Report [61]
Topics on the Beat:
Journalism & Media [16]
Visibility:
Public [32]
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Reporter, Wearing Two Hats, Journeys Into Filmmaking [62]

For Boston Globe environment reporter David Abel, a side project shooting video of the 2013 Boston Marathon sealed his passion for nonfiction filmmaking, one that has since yielded four high-profile nature documentaries. In EJ InSight, Abel traces that path and details how he balances his environment reporting and filmmaking. Plus, view images from Abel’s documentary work [63].

SEJ Publication Types:
EJ InSight [64]
Topics on the Beat:
Climate Change [7]
Environmental Health [12]
Fish & Fisheries [65]
Journalism & Media [16]
Natural Resources [18]
Water & Oceans [27]
Region:
National (U.S.) [28]
Northeast (CT MA ME NH NJ NY RI VT) [57]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [30]
Visibility:
Public [32]
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