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November 7, 2025 to November 9, 2025

ScienceWriters 2025 [1]

The joint National Association of Science Writers and the Council for the Advancement of Science Writing annual event takes place this autumn in Chicago. For those not attending in person, virtual sessions take place Oct. 22-24. Grants available.

Professional Meetings [2]
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Public [3]
Topics on the Beat: 
Diversity [4]
Journalism & Media [5]
Science [6]
Technology [7]
Region: 
National (U.S.) [8]
Great Lakes (IL IN MI MN OH WI) [9]

"Trump Admin Tried To Blunt EPA Review Of Popular Weedkiller" [10]

"Trump-era political appointees attempted to tamper with the science underpinning an EPA decision for a popular weedkiller now under scrutiny by the Biden administration, according to sources within the agency."

Agriculture [11]
Chemicals [12]
Environmental Health [13]
Environmental Politics [14]
Laws & Regulations [15]
Science [6]
Public [3]
National (U.S.) [8]
Source: E&E News [16], 07/22/2022
  • Read more about "Trump Admin Tried To Blunt EPA Review Of Popular Weedkiller" [10]

"Biden and NASA Share First Webb Space Telescope Image" [17]

"In a brief event at the White House on Monday evening, President Biden unveiled an image that NASA and astronomers hailed as the deepest view yet into our universe’s past."

Science [6]
Public [3]
National (U.S.) [8]
Source: NYTimes [18], 07/12/2022
  • Read more about "Biden and NASA Share First Webb Space Telescope Image" [17]

Reporting Ocean Stories Is Key to Blue Literacy, Planetary Health [19]

As part of a Society of Environmental Journalists publishing project focused on covering climate solutions, we take a closer look at ocean-based solutions. In this special tipsheet, ocean scientist and science writer Juli Berwald offers a primer on the climate-related challenges and possibilities in the global ocean’s physics, chemistry and biology. Plus, check out an expanded toolbox [20] with reporting resources and watch a recent SEJ webinar [21].

SEJ Publication Types: 
Special Reports [22]
Topics on the Beat: 
Biodiversity [23]
Climate Change [24]
Environmental Health [13]
Environmental Politics [14]
Environmental Studies [25]
Fish & Fisheries [26]
Journalism & Media [5]
Laws & Regulations [15]
Natural Resources [27]
Policy [28]
Science [6]
Water & Oceans [29]
Region: 
National (U.S.) [8]
International [30]
Antarctica & Arctic [31]
Visibility: 
Public [3]
  • Read more about Reporting Ocean Stories Is Key to Blue Literacy, Planetary Health [19]

"Huge Underground Search For Mysterious Dark Matter Begins" [32]

"LEAD, S.D. — In a former gold mine a mile underground, inside a titanium tank filled with a rare liquified gas, scientists have begun the search for what so far has been unfindable: dark matter."

Natural Resources [27]
Science [6]
Public [3]
International [30]
Source: AP [33], 07/11/2022
  • Read more about "Huge Underground Search For Mysterious Dark Matter Begins" [32]

Peter Dykstra Column: "Climate Change Denial And Me" [34]

"Since the 1990’s, I’ve had a front row seat for TV news's abject failure in covering climate change."

Climate Change [24]
Energy & Fuel [35]
Environmental Politics [14]
Journalism & Media [5]
Science [6]
Public [3]
National (U.S.) [8]
Source: EHN [36], 07/11/2022
  • Read more about Peter Dykstra Column: "Climate Change Denial And Me" [34]

Photographer Joined Researchers Examining Climate Change In Antarctica [37]

"Earlier this year, photojournalist James Whitlow Delano joined several groups of scientists, from various universities in Chile as part of the Chilean Antarctic Institute’s (INACH) 58th Antarctic Scientific Expedition."

Climate Change [24]
Natural Resources [27]
Science [6]
Public [3]
Antarctica & Arctic [31]
Source: Washington Post [38], 07/07/2022
  • Read more about Photographer Joined Researchers Examining Climate Change In Antarctica [37]

Methane Much More Sensitive To Global Heating Than Thought: Study [39]

"Methane is four times more sensitive to global warming than previously thought, a new study shows. The result helps to explain the rapid growth in methane in recent years and suggests that, if left unchecked, methane related warming will escalate in the decades to come."

Climate Change [24]
Science [6]
Public [3]
International [30]
Source: Guardian [40], 07/06/2022
  • Read more about Methane Much More Sensitive To Global Heating Than Thought: Study [39]

"EPA: Flame Retardant Chemical Poses Unreasonable Risk" [41]

"A controversial substance once commonly used as a flame retardant poses outsize risks to both human health and the environment, according to EPA, in a decision that formalizes a new “whole chemical” approach to assessing the dangers of a compound."

Chemicals [12]
Environmental Health [13]
Laws & Regulations [15]
Science [6]
Public [3]
National (U.S.) [8]
Source: E&E News [42], 06/30/2022
  • Read more about "EPA: Flame Retardant Chemical Poses Unreasonable Risk" [41]

"New Tools May Predict Wildfire Season Severity, Rainfall Months Ahead" [43]

"Researchers are developing ways to predict how much land will burn out West and where ocean heat waves will occur up to a year in advance".

Agriculture [11]
Climate Change [24]
Science [6]
Water & Oceans [29]
Public [3]
National (U.S.) [8]
Source: Washington Post [44], 06/28/2022
  • Read more about "New Tools May Predict Wildfire Season Severity, Rainfall Months Ahead" [43]

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