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Climate Change at Core of Beat Reporters’ Award-Winning Coverage [1]

Beat reporters Hal Bernton and Mark Kaufman both found the dramatic changes wrought by climate change to be at the center of their coverage — as their work was elevated to prize-winning heights. Bernton, covering climate impacts in northwestern Alaska at a large newspaper, and Kaufman, covering CO2 globally for a digital platform, talk about the lessons of their recent beat coverage with SEJournal’s Inside Story.

SEJ Publication Types: 
Inside Story [2]
Topics on the Beat: 
Climate Change [3]
Energy & Fuel [4]
Environmental Health [5]
Fish & Fisheries [6]
Journalism & Media [7]
Natural Resources [8]
Policy [9]
Water & Oceans [10]
Region: 
National (U.S.) [11]
Alaska and Hawaii [12]
International [13]
Visibility: 
Public [14]

Will 2022 See the Start of Formal Negotiations Toward a Global Plastics Treaty? [15]

Plastic waste, already the subject of preliminary international talks, could be increasingly targeted after UN meetings in early 2022. Meanwhile, this ubiquitous product is polluting land, ocean and air in its various forms, as well as through little-understood microplastic particles. The latest TipSheet has the backstory on efforts to forge an international plastics treaty, as well as ideas for how to cover plastic pollution locally.

SEJ Publication Types: 
TipSheet [16]
Topics on the Beat: 
Activism [17]
Air [18]
Chemicals [19]
Climate Change [3]
Consumer [20]
Economy & Business [21]
Environmental Health [5]
Environmental Politics [22]
Fish & Fisheries [6]
Food [23]
Government [24]
Health [25]
Journalism & Media [7]
Policy [9]
Pollution [26]
Waste [27]
Water & Oceans [10]
Wildlife [28]
Region: 
National (U.S.) [11]
International [13]
Visibility: 
Public [14]

"Fishery Closures and the Ghosts of Past Mistakes" [29]

"Canada is closing fisheries and buying back licenses. Will this latest scheme save salmon or sink fishers?"

Fish & Fisheries [6]
Laws & Regulations [30]
Public [14]
Canada [31]
Source: Hakai [32], 10/25/2021

"White House Taps Martha Williams To Head FWS" [33]

"The White House announced last night the intention to nominate Martha Williams as director of the Fish and Wildlife Service, capping nine months in which she has already been leading the agency as the administration overhauls key policies."

Biodiversity [34]
Fish & Fisheries [6]
Wildlife [28]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [11]
Source: E&E News [35], 10/25/2021

"Salmon Need Trees" [36]

"A new study stands as a striking reminder that logging watersheds has an outsized impact on salmon and trout."

Biodiversity [34]
Fish & Fisheries [6]
Forests [37]
Water & Oceans [10]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [11]
Canada [31]
Source: Hakai [38], 10/21/2021

"US Formally Removes Colorado River Fish’s Endangered Status" [39]

"The humpback chub, a rare fish found only in the Colorado River basin, has been brought back from the brink of extinction after decades of protection, though work must continue to ensure its survival, federal authorities said Monday in reclassifying the species from endangered to threatened status."

Biodiversity [34]
Fish & Fisheries [6]
Laws & Regulations [30]
Water & Oceans [10]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [11]
Source: AP [40], 10/19/2021

"6 Aspects of American Life Threatened by Climate Change" [41]

"Two dozen federal agencies flagged the biggest dangers posed by a warming planet. The list spreads across American society."

Agriculture [42]
Air [18]
Biodiversity [34]
Climate Change [3]
Disasters [43]
Economy & Business [21]
Energy & Fuel [4]
Environmental Health [5]
Environmental Justice [44]
Environmental Politics [22]
Environmental Studies [45]
Fish & Fisheries [6]
Forests [37]
Water & Oceans [10]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [11]
Source: NYTimes [46], 10/08/2021

"14% Of World’s Coral Lost In Less Than A Decade, Study Shows" [47]

"In the largest analysis of coral reef health ever undertaken, scientists found that between 2009 and 2018 the world lost about 11,700 sq km of coral – the equivalent of more than all the living coral in Australia."

Fish & Fisheries [6]
Science [48]
Water & Oceans [10]
Public [14]
International [13]
Source: Guardian [49], 10/05/2021

"Great Wall of Lights: China's Sea Power On Darwin's Doorstep" [50]

"It’s 3 a.m., and after five days plying through the high seas, the Ocean Warrior is surrounded by an atoll of blazing lights that overtakes the nighttime sky."

Fish & Fisheries [6]
Water & Oceans [10]
Public [14]
International [13]
Source: AP [51], 10/04/2021

"Crews Race To Limit Damage From Major California Oil Spill" [52]

"Crews on the water and on shore worked feverishly Sunday to limit environmental damage from one of the largest oil spills in recent California history, caused by a suspected leak in an underwater pipeline that fouled the sands of famed Huntington Beach and could keep the beaches there closed for weeks or longer."

Disasters [43]
Energy & Fuel [4]
Fish & Fisheries [6]
Natural Resources [8]
Pollution [26]
Water & Oceans [10]
Wildlife [28]
Public [14]
California [53]
Source: AP [54], 10/04/2021

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