Top Climate Change Stories From SEJournal

Updated January 2026

EJ TransitionWatch

• ‘One Big, Beautiful Bill’ Could Undo Biden’s Climate Progress [2]
• Climate Action Looks First To Go Under New Administration [3]

TipSheets

• Ski Patrol — How Snow Helps Tell Local Climate Story [4]
• The Polar Vortex Portends … the Planting of Seeds? [5]
• How Ice Fishing Can Break the Ice on Your Local Climate Story [6]
• Climate Health Impacts Can Multiply Local Story Possibilities [7]
• Home Insurance Likely To Be a 2024 Climate Story Near You [8]
• Heat Warning — Expect Extreme Temps To Be Local Story This Summer [9]
• Reporters Can Address Uncertainty Over Local Risk of Rising Seas [10]
• Bringing the Climate Crisis Story Home in 2023 [11]
• As Concern Over Methane Mounts, Emission Controls Yield Stories [12]
• Extreme Rainfall Offers Journalists a Deluge of Environment, Climate Stories [13]

Toolboxes

• Trump Tries (and Fails) To Disappear Climate Disaster Data [14]
• As Realty Risk Data Is Pulled From Web, Alternatives Are Ready [15]
• Trump Administration Icing Out NSIDC Data [16]
• As COP29 Begins, Where Can You Get Good Climate Emissions Data? [17]
• Is Climate Data at Risk From Natural Disasters? [18]
• Map Model Offers Up Data on Climate Disaster-Proofing [19]
• Student Journalists Show the Way on Data With Methane Flaring Project [20]
• New Climate Vulnerability Index Made for Local, Regional Stories [21]
• Temperature Shift Tool May Help Journalists Clarify Climate Impacts [22]
• New ‘Climate Trace’ Emissions Database Unveiled at COP27 [23]
• Fossil Fuels Registry Promises Global Warming Data. Does It Deliver? [24]
• Newly Released Greenhouse Gas Inventory Offers Local Reporting Opportunities [25]
• NOAA Data Portal Is a Great Home Port for Environmental Journalists [26]

Backgrounders

• At COP30, Amazon Rainforest Is Center Stage for Climate Catastrophe [27]
• DOE Climate ‘Endangerment’ Report Sparks Stormy Retort [28]
• COP30 — Why It Won’t Save the Planet [29]
• Coastal Flooding Challenges Cities Around the U.S. [30]
• How Climate Change Complicates the Refugee Crisis [31]
• The EPA’s Power Plant Rule … We’ll See You in Court [32]
• How To Power Through Your EPA Power Plant Rule Coverage [33]
• Climate Crisis May Quickly Confront U.S., World With National Security Threats [34]
• Climate Resiliency — When a Disaster Becomes a Cascade [35]
• As Climate Change Brings Extreme Heat Events, Human Health Is a Casualty [36]

Features & More

• Covering the Health Impacts of Extreme Heat — An Arizona Reporter Weighs In [37]
• Better Communicating for the Climate [38]
• Eat Local for Climate’s Sake? No, Eat Less Meat [39]
• What Francis' Latest Climate Text Means for Upcoming UN Summit [40]
• From TV Meteorologists, More Straight Talk About Climate Change [41]
• Why Journalists Should Investigate the Twin Mental Health and Climate Crises [42]
• Collaborative Journalism Project Reveals Inequities in Escaping Climate Change Hazards [43]
• How — And Why —To Avoid Jargon When Covering Climate [44]
• How Climate Attribution Science Went Mainstream, and What It Means [45]
• Voices of Environmental Justice: Solutions Stories a Compass for Readers [46]
• Voices of Environmental Justice: Climate Crisis Makes for Real Fashion Emergency [47]
• Voices of Environmental Justice: What’s Ahead on Climate Justice, Climate Crisis Beat [48]
• FEJ StoryLog: Climate Solutions, for Some, May Not Be [49]
• Freelance Files: Covering Food Systems — The Next Climate Action Battleground [50]
• EJ InSight: Capturing the Invisible — Photographing Extreme Heat Waves [51]
• Inside Story: Beat Reporter Spotlights Costs of California's Environmental Reckoning [52]
• Inside Story: Reporter Unravels Complex Dynamic Between Climate Change and Nature [53]
• Inside Story: Reporting on Storm Chasing’s ‘Human Side’ Hints at Climate’s Future [54]
• BookShelf: With Climate, an Undercurrent of Violence [55]
• BookShelf: ‘Carbon Colonialism’ Details the Exporting of Degradation, Climate Collapse [56]
• BookShelf: Between the Lines — Author Explores Experience of Living Through Climate Change [57]

WatchDogs

• Why Nobelists Are Joining the Fight Against Disinformation’s Dangers [58]
• Disinformation Presents New Challenges to Environmental Journalists [59]
• Climate Censorship, Part II, Courtesy Wall Street Journal’s Editorial Board [60]
• Climate ‘Censorship’ Raised in Disinformation Fracas [61]

Special Reports

• Climate Change Resource Guide [62]
• Covering Climate Solutions [63]
• Covering Your Climate: The South [64]
• Covering Your Climate: The Emerald Corridor [65]

All Climate Change Stories From SEJournal [66]     All Climate Change Headlines From EJToday [67]

Return to Topics on the Beat main page [68]