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NASA Earthdata Offers a New Look at What Satellites See Down Here [1]

The capacity to visualize Earth’s ecosystems in detail is an invaluable aid to reporting on the environment. That’s now being bolstered with an ongoing upgrade to NASA’s Earthdata program, fueled by its ranks of satellites. Reporter’s Toolbox says the refurbishment offers treasures for journalists ranging from oceans, groundwater and land surfaces to the biosphere and atmosphere.

SEJ Publication Types: 
Reporters Toolbox [2]
Topics on the Beat: 
Biodiversity [3]
Climate Change [4]
Environmental Health [5]
Journalism & Media [6]
Natural Resources [7]
Science [8]
Technology [9]
Water & Oceans [10]
Region: 
National (U.S.) [11]
International [12]
Visibility: 
Public [13]
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Insect Decline Poses Foundational Ecological Hazards [14]

Bugs may get a bad rap, but a serious possible global decline in their populations is making clearer what may be lost for ecosystems and human societies. Issue Backgrounder peers beneath the detritus to find what insects do, how we try to kill them and how they survive, and why it’s so hard to pin down the data around their shifting numbers.

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Backgrounders [15]
Topics on the Beat: 
Biodiversity [3]
Chemicals [16]
Environmental Health [5]
Natural Resources [7]
Pollution [17]
Science [8]
Region: 
National (U.S.) [11]
International [12]
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Public [13]
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"12 Climate Reads For Women’s History Month" [18]

"These books and reports explore climate change through historical, scientific, social, and political lenses."

Climate Change [4]
Journalism & Media [6]
People & Population [19]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [11]
International [12]
Source: Yale Climate Connections [20], 03/23/2026
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"Record-Torching March Heat ‘Virtually Impossible’ Without Climate Change" [21]

"On Friday, March 20, eight states set an all-time March heat record, and the U.S. national March heat record was set or tied for the third consecutive day"

Climate Change [4]
Disasters [22]
Environmental Health [5]
Environmental Studies [23]
People & Population [19]
Science [8]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [11]
Source: Yale Climate Connections [24], 03/23/2026
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Trump EPA Is Paving The Way For Haze To Return To National Parks, Conservationists Warn [25]

"A year ago, federal environmental regulators told West Virginia officials that their plan to clear sulfur and smog from skies over the state’s national wilderness areas wasn’t good enough because a dozen coal plants didn’t analyze whether they needed better pollution controls." 

Air [26]
Environmental Politics [27]
Laws & Regulations [28]
Pollution [17]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [11]
Source: AP [29], 03/23/2026
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"Trump’s Latest Attempt To Derail EV-Charger Construction" [30]

"States are fighting a requirement that chargers getting federal funding be made with 100% American components — a standard no manufacturers currently meet."

Climate Change [4]
Energy & Fuel [31]
Environmental Politics [27]
Laws & Regulations [28]
Transportation [32]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [11]
Source: Canary Media [33], 03/23/2026
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"EPA Chief to Headline Event by Group That Says There’s No Climate Crisis" [34]

"Lee Zeldin, the administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, will be the opening speaker at a conference next month sponsored by the Heartland Institute, a group that rejects the overwhelming scientific consensus on climate change, the organization has announced."

Activism [35]
Climate Change [4]
Disasters [22]
Energy & Fuel [31]
Environmental Health [5]
Environmental Politics [27]
Journalism & Media [6]
Science [8]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [11]
Source: NYTimes [36], 03/23/2026
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"The First US Coal Plant In A Decade Is On Shaky Ground" [37]

"Trump officials are heralding a potential new coal plant in Alaska, but the project faces mounting opposition and tricky data center politics."

Climate Change [4]
Energy & Fuel [31]
Environmental Politics [27]
Infrastructure [38]
Pollution [17]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [11]
Alaska and Hawaii [39]
Source: E&E News [40], 03/23/2026
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Biogas Project Touted As Climate Fix Emits Thousands Of Tons Of Methane [41]

"A Wisconsin project dubbed the “world’s largest manure biogas project” emits nearly 5,000 metric tons of climate-warming methane annually, roughly equivalent to emissions from 30,000 gasoline-powered vehicles, according to state data that adds to concerns about the impacts of large-scale manure digesters."

Agriculture [42]
Climate Change [4]
Laws & Regulations [28]
Pollution [17]
Waste [43]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [11]
Great Lakes (IL IN MI MN OH WI) [44]
Source: The New Lede [45], 03/23/2026
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Trump DOI Issues Sudden Waiver Allowing Budd-Falen To Work On Grazing [46]

"Ethics officials at President Donald Trump’s Interior Department granted Karen Budd-Falen, the agency’s No. 3 official, a waiver on March 11 — the very day that Public Domain inquired about her recent work on grazing issues — that provides her wide latitude to work on grazing policy and permitting, despite her family’s vast personal holdings in the public lands grazing industry."

Agriculture [42]
Environmental Politics [27]
Laws & Regulations [28]
Natural Resources [7]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [11]
Source: Public Domain [47], 03/23/2026
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