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Reporters Can Address Uncertainty Over Local Risk of Rising Seas [10]

U.S. coastal counties are home to 127 million people, making the risk to life and property of flooding from sea level rise a serious one. But how great that risk is varies widely from place to place. So the latest TipSheet makes the case for environmental journalists to explain the local reality to their audiences. Get context, story ideas and resources to do just that.

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TipSheet [11]

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Diversity [6]

Environmental Studies [12]

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April 22, 2023

#SEJ2023 Plenary: Covering Gender and Environment Connections, at Home and Abroad [16]

Join the livestream of this #SEJ2023 lunch plenary examining how can we accurately and sensitively cover the connections between climate and gender, and how they intersect in people’s lives, both here in the U.S. and abroad. Noon-2:00 p.m. MT.

SEJ Regional Conferences [17]

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International [19]

April 21, 2023

#SEJ2023: Interior Secretary Deb Haaland Keynote and Q&A [20]

Join the livestream of this #SEJ2023 discussion hosted by Interior Secretary Deb Haaland on how the Department is honoring Indigenous communities through co-stewardship and an emphasis on Indigenous Knowledge, employing nature-based solutions and investing in ecosystem restoration, and tackling the fundamental challenges of climate change. 3:45-4:45 a.m. MT.

SEJ Regional Conferences [17]

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Biodiversity [21]

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Energy & Fuel [22]

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Mountain West (CO ID MT NV UT WY) [18]

#SEJ2023 Boise: SEJ Stands With Members Impacted by Restrictions to Reproductive Healthcare and Anti-LGBTQ+ Legislation [26]

March 31, 2023 — The Society of Environmental Journalists is holding its annual conference in Boise, Idaho this April. In light of concerns raised by members, the SEJ Board of Directors issued a statement [26] in recognition of how participants may be affected by recent Idaho state legislation seeking to restrict reproductive health care and LGBTQ+ rights.

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April 12, 2023 to April 13, 2023

Webinar: Unfence the Future — Taking Down Fortress Conservation and Its Enduring Legacy [27]

The Natural History Museum, Survival International and CUNY Center for the Humanities invite you to a free two-day virtual symposium on the logic of fencing wilderness (“fortress conservation”) to expel perceived threats to ecological balance — from Indigenous Peoples to predator species.

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Activism [4]

Biodiversity [21]

Disasters [28]

Diversity [6]

Environmental Health [29]

Environmental Politics [30]

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Infrastructure [32]

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People & Population [8]

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2023 Gathering Goes Big in Boise [35]

The Society of Environmental Journalists’ annual conference is back to Boise, two-and-a-half years after the first attempt to meet in the mountainous Northwestern state was sidetracked by the COVID pandemic. Co-chairs Tom Michael and Christy George outline the rich schedule of plenaries, panels, tours and other events that are drawing record interest to the April 19-23 program.

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SEJ News [36]

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Agriculture [37]

Biodiversity [21]

Diversity [6]

Energy & Fuel [22]

Environmental Health [29]

Environmental Politics [30]

Fish & Fisheries [38]

Forests [31]

Government [23]

Natural Resources [24]

Policy [39]

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Great Plains (IA KS ND NE MO SD) [40]

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Northwest (OR WA) [41]

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"Much Of West Coast Faces Ban To Fish Salmon Amid Low Stocks" [42]

"As drought dried up rivers that carry California’s newly hatched Chinook salmon to the ocean, state officials in recent years resorted to loading up the fish by the millions onto trucks and barges to take them to the Pacific."

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Fish & Fisheries [38]

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Source: AP [44], 03/27/2023

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SEJ Stands With Environmental Journalists of Color Affected by Systemic Racism [45]

March 9, 2023 — In June 2020, SEJ’s board of directors issued a statement titled “SEJ Stands With Journalists of Color Speaking Out About Systemic Racism.” The statement included steps SEJ planned on taking to further its diversity, equity and inclusivity initiatives. In an effort to be transparent about those steps, we are updating those commitments here.

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From Swine Waste, Student Journalist Extracts Prize-Winning Story [46]

Industrial hog farmers tout swine biogas as a clean, green energy source, but others point to its messy side. A young journalist who investigated the underreported stench of environmental racism associated with this technology learned valuable lessons along the way to producing a feature story that won her a Society of Environmental Journalists’ award for outstanding student reporting.

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EJ Academy [47]

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Agriculture [37]

Air [48]

Chemicals [49]

Diversity [6]

Economy & Business [50]

Energy & Fuel [22]

Environmental Health [29]