Top Biodiversity Stories From SEJournal

Updated September 2026

TipSheets & Toolboxes

• Oysters, Boisterous or Scarce, Fuel Local Environment Stories [2]
• Spring Is Coming. How Silent Will It Be? [3]
• Seabed Mining May Dredge Up Real Minerals, Fishy Worries in 2024 [4]
• As Bird Populations Crash, Local Reporting Can Help Untangle Why [5]
• Cascadia Bioregion Rife With Energy, Environment Troubles To Report in 2023 [6]
• NASA Set To Ditch Satellite-Based Environmental Data Source [7]
• When Sizing Up Threats to Biodiversity, Databases Can Help [8]
• Could Biodiversity Be Bee’s Knees for Environmental Journalists This Fall? [9]
• Bird Migration Explorer Can Help Hatch Environmental Stories [10]

Issue Backgrounders

• Insect Decline Poses Foundational Ecological Hazards [11]
• At COP30, Amazon Rainforest Is Center Stage for Climate Catastrophe [12]

Features

• Why I Write About Extinction [13]
• The Joy of Rewilding [14]
• Even in This Toxic River — A Salmon Story [15]
• From Fear to Fascination — A New Insect Narrative [16]
• Telling the Stories of the Silent Sentinels [17]
• To Give a Goldfish Agency — The Joys (and Perils) of Writing on Nonhuman Life [18]
• Reporting on Illegal Wildlife Trade – Story Ideas, Safety Tips and More [19]
• Small Fry — How to Tell Compelling Stories About Obscure Species [20]
• Coequal Catastrophes — Quammen on Climate Change, Extinction and Epidemics [21]
• ESA Inaction Spells Trouble for an Iconic Grassland Bird [22]
• How 'Rights of Nature' Is Recasting the Relationship Between Law and the Earth [23]

Inside Story Q&As and FEJ StoryLogs

• Saving Big Cats From Humans [24]
• Reporter Unravels Complex Dynamic Between Climate Change and Nature [25]
• Reporting on the Amazon Rainforest Highlights Accelerating Destruction [26]
• Reporter Navigates Ethical Questions in Project on Endangered Species, Free Markets [27]
• Neither Pandemic Nor Politics Derailed Grantee’s Trophy Hunting Story [28]
• Determined Grantee Weaves Together Unique Project on Ash Trees, Wetlands and Baskets [29]

BookShelf

• The Case for Hope in Saving the World’s Birds [30]
• Kelp — The Understory, Underwater [31]
• In Subzero Temperatures, Protecting a Tiger in the Snow [32]
• Solutions — and Death — in the Rainforest [33]
• Trauma Specialist Offers Ospreys As ‘Gateway Drug’ to Nature [34]
• The Resilient Sea Turtle, Beset by Threats [35]
• Scientist Recounts Great Barrier Reef’s ‘Final Battle’ [36]
• A Renowned Birder Shatters the Audubon Myth [37]
• Roadkill Makes for Jolting Read in ‘Crossings’ [38]
• Ursine Odyssey Seeks Insight Into Future for Bears [39]
• Koalas, Under Pressure From Wildfires and Development, Are Beloved But Undefended [40]
• “Saving America’s Amazon: The Threat to Our Nation’s Most Biodiverse River System” [41]
• ‘Wild Souls’ Explores Paradox of Managing Species To Save Them [42]

SEJ Updates

• SEJ Webinar: All Life, Great and Small — Covering Biodiversity and Climate [43]

 

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