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Ready for Climate Change-Induced Grid Blackouts Along With Heat Waves? [1]

Climate change can mean doubling down on disasters, such as a combination of widespread power outages with the kind of extreme heat that kills. The latest TipSheet explores why such simultaneous disasters are so dangerous, where they’ve happened already, why they are increasingly likely to happen again and how to prepare to cover them in your area.

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TipSheet [2]
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Climate Change [3]
Consumer [4]
Disasters [5]
Energy & Fuel [6]
Environmental Politics [7]
Health [8]
Infrastructure [9]
Journalism & Media [10]
Planning & Growth [11]
Region: 
National (U.S.) [12]
California [13]
Great Lakes (IL IN MI MN OH WI) [14]
Mid-Atlantic (DC DE MD PA VA WV) [15]
Northwest (OR WA) [16]
International [17]
Europe [18]
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“Routledge Handbook of Environmental Journalism” [20]

While a “Handbook of Environmental Journalism” might initially sound like a scholarly work on environmental journalism, our BookShelf reviewer finds that the volume reads more like an engaging assembly of accessible accounts on the profession from colleagues across the planet. That makes it a rich resource for working journalists ... and anyone else with a passing interest in environmental issues and how they’re covered.

SEJ Publication Types: 
BookShelf [21]
Topics on the Beat: 
Disasters [5]
Energy & Fuel [6]
Environmental Health [22]
Environmental Politics [7]
Forests [23]
Health [8]
Journalism & Media [10]
Nuclear Power & Radiation [24]
Waste [25]
Wildlife [26]
Region: 
National (U.S.) [12]
Mountain West (CO ID MT NV UT WY) [27]
Northeast (CT MA ME NH NJ NY RI VT) [28]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [29]
International [17]
Africa [30]
South America [31]
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Public [19]

Job Opening: Part-Time Editor, Online Publication, Branches & Roots [32]

This is a brand new project, so you would be involved with launching and shaping this very exciting online publication.

Part-Time Editor, Online Publication, Branches & Roots

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Journalism & Media [10]
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Public [19]

#SEJ2022 Conference Tour Proposals/Attendance [33]

Thank you! We have received your "Virtually" response and appreciate your feedback.

 

#SEJ2022 Annual Conference, Houston, TX, March 30-April 3 [34]

 

 

 

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#SEJSpotlight: Laura Paskus, Environment Reporter, New Mexico Public Broadcast Station [35]

Meet SEJ Board Member Laura Paskus! Laura has covered environment issues in the U.S. Southwest since 2002, and currently works as the environment reporter for the New Mexico Public Broadcast Station (NMPBS), where she covers climate change, water, energy and the military's contamination of groundwater with PFAS.

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Australia Unveils Weapons Of Mouse Destruction To Tackle Rodent ‘Plague’ [36]

"Farmers and rural residents say they’re at their wits end battling the growing tide of mice."

"The Australian state of New South Wales will spend $38.5 million to send a plague of mice eating their way across farms and invading homes “into oblivion,” a move hailed by farmers and rural residents who say they’re at their wits end with a growing tide of rodents.

Agriculture [37]
Biodiversity [38]
Wildlife [26]
Public [19]
Australia & Oceania [39]
Source: HuffPost [40], 05/17/2021

"Chainsaw Massacre: Tree Poaching Hits Canada Amid Lumber Shortage" [41]

"Officials on Vancouver Island say at least 100 trees have been illegally cut down, leaving one stump with a face carved into it".

Economy & Business [42]
Forests [23]
Laws & Regulations [43]
Natural Resources [44]
Public [19]
Canada [45]
Source: Guardian [46], 05/17/2021

$2 Billion Project Would Help Save Louisiana Coast - And Stoke Flooding [47]

"In lower Plaquemines Parish, some fear they are river diversion's 'collateral damage'".

Climate Change [3]
Water & Oceans [48]
Public [19]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [49]
Source: New Orleans Times-Picayune [50], 05/17/2021

DFO Altered Report To Downplay Risks To Imperilled Steelhead: Docs [51]

"Fisheries and Oceans Canada (DFO) watered down a scientific report to downplay threats to endangered Thompson and Chilcotin steelhead, documents obtained by the B.C. Wildlife Federation through access to information legislation reveal."

Environmental Politics [7]
Fish & Fisheries [52]
Laws & Regulations [43]
Science [53]
Public [19]
Canada [45]
Source: The Narwhal [54], 05/17/2021

"Hurricane Season Spurs Hog Waste Worries In North Carolina" [55]

"As experts predict an active storm season, critics say the hog industry has done little to change after recent hurricanes overwhelmed waste lagoons."

Agriculture [37]
Disasters [5]
Environmental Health [22]
Environmental Justice [56]
Pollution [57]
Water & Oceans [48]
Public [19]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [49]
Source: EHN [58], 05/17/2021

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