Top Biodiversity Stories From SEJournal

Updated November 2025

TipSheets & Toolboxes

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

Issue Backgrounders

• At COP30, Amazon Rainforest Is Center Stage for Climate Catastrophe [9]

Features

• From Fear to Fascination — A New Insect Narrative [10]
• Telling the Stories of the Silent Sentinels [11]
• To Give a Goldfish Agency — The Joys (and Perils) of Writing on Nonhuman Life [12]
• Reporting on Illegal Wildlife Trade – Story Ideas, Safety Tips and More [13]
• Small Fry — How to Tell Compelling Stories About Obscure Species [14]
• Coequal Catastrophes — Quammen on Climate Change, Extinction and Epidemics [15]
• ESA Inaction Spells Trouble for an Iconic Grassland Bird [16]
• How 'Rights of Nature' Is Recasting the Relationship Between Law and the Earth [17]

Inside Story Q&As and FEJ StoryLogs

• Saving Big Cats From Humans [18]
• Reporter Unravels Complex Dynamic Between Climate Change and Nature [19]
• Reporting on the Amazon Rainforest Highlights Accelerating Destruction [20]
• Reporter Navigates Ethical Questions in Project on Endangered Species, Free Markets [21]
• Neither Pandemic Nor Politics Derailed Grantee’s Trophy Hunting Story [22]
• Determined Grantee Weaves Together Unique Project on Ash Trees, Wetlands and Baskets [23]

BookShelf

• Solutions — and Death — in the Rainforest [24]
• Trauma Specialist Offers Ospreys As ‘Gateway Drug’ to Nature [25]
• The Resilient Sea Turtle, Beset by Threats [26]
• Scientist Recounts Great Barrier Reef’s ‘Final Battle’ [27]
• A Renowned Birder Shatters the Audubon Myth [28]
• Roadkill Makes for Jolting Read in ‘Crossings’ [29]
• Ursine Odyssey Seeks Insight Into Future for Bears [30]
• Koalas, Under Pressure From Wildfires and Development, Are Beloved But Undefended [31]
• “Saving America’s Amazon: The Threat to Our Nation’s Most Biodiverse River System” [32]
• ‘Wild Souls’ Explores Paradox of Managing Species To Save Them [33]

SEJ Updates

• SEJ Webinar: All Life, Great and Small — Covering Biodiversity and Climate [34]

 

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