Top Climate Change Stories From SEJournal

Updated June 2026

TipSheets

• Extreme Heat Will Get You This Summer. Watch Out! [2]
• Ski Patrol — How Snow Helps Tell Local Climate Story [3]
• The Polar Vortex Portends … the Planting of Seeds? [4]
• How Ice Fishing Can Break the Ice on Your Local Climate Story [5]
• Climate Health Impacts Can Multiply Local Story Possibilities [6]
• Home Insurance Likely To Be a 2024 Climate Story Near You [7]
• Heat Warning — Expect Extreme Temps To Be Local Story This Summer [8]
• Reporters Can Address Uncertainty Over Local Risk of Rising Seas [9]
• Bringing the Climate Crisis Story Home in 2023 [10]
• As Concern Over Methane Mounts, Emission Controls Yield Stories [11]
• Extreme Rainfall Offers Journalists a Deluge of Environment, Climate Stories [12]

Toolboxes

• Hazard Duty — Government Data Portals Help Report Extreme Weather [13]
• Scouring the Skies for Methane Data [14]
• Trump Tries (and Fails) To Disappear Climate Disaster Data [15]
• As Realty Risk Data Is Pulled From Web, Alternatives Are Ready [16]
• Trump Administration Icing Out NSIDC Data [17]
• As COP29 Begins, Where Can You Get Good Climate Emissions Data? [18]
• Is Climate Data at Risk From Natural Disasters? [19]
• Map Model Offers Up Data on Climate Disaster-Proofing [20]
• Student Journalists Show the Way on Data With Methane Flaring Project [21]
• New Climate Vulnerability Index Made for Local, Regional Stories [22]
• Temperature Shift Tool May Help Journalists Clarify Climate Impacts [23]
• New ‘Climate Trace’ Emissions Database Unveiled at COP27 [24]
• Fossil Fuels Registry Promises Global Warming Data. Does It Deliver? [25]
• Newly Released Greenhouse Gas Inventory Offers Local Reporting Opportunities [26]
• NOAA Data Portal Is a Great Home Port for Environmental Journalists [27]

Backgrounders

• At COP30, Amazon Rainforest Is Center Stage for Climate Catastrophe [28]
• DOE Climate ‘Endangerment’ Report Sparks Stormy Retort [29]
• COP30 — Why It Won’t Save the Planet [30]
• Coastal Flooding Challenges Cities Around the U.S. [31]
• How Climate Change Complicates the Refugee Crisis [32]
• The EPA’s Power Plant Rule … We’ll See You in Court [33]
• How To Power Through Your EPA Power Plant Rule Coverage [34]
• Climate Crisis May Quickly Confront U.S., World With National Security Threats [35]
• Climate Resiliency — When a Disaster Becomes a Cascade [36]
• As Climate Change Brings Extreme Heat Events, Human Health Is a Casualty [37]

Features & More

• How Attribution Science Can Help Reporters on the Heat Beat [38]
• Graphic Content — Journalistic Lessons From Crossing Genres [39]
• Covering the Health Impacts of Extreme Heat — An Arizona Reporter Weighs In [40]
• Better Communicating for the Climate [41]
• Eat Local for Climate’s Sake? No, Eat Less Meat [42]
• What Francis' Latest Climate Text Means for Upcoming UN Summit [43]
• From TV Meteorologists, More Straight Talk About Climate Change [44]
• Why Journalists Should Investigate the Twin Mental Health and Climate Crises [45]
• Collaborative Journalism Project Reveals Inequities in Escaping Climate Change Hazards [46]
• How — And Why —To Avoid Jargon When Covering Climate [47]
• How Climate Attribution Science Went Mainstream, and What It Means [48]
• Voices of Environmental Justice: Solutions Stories a Compass for Readers [49]
• Voices of Environmental Justice: Climate Crisis Makes for Real Fashion Emergency [50]
• Voices of Environmental Justice: What’s Ahead on Climate Justice, Climate Crisis Beat [51]
• FEJ StoryLog: Climate Solutions, for Some, May Not Be [52]
• Freelance Files: Covering Food Systems — The Next Climate Action Battleground [53]
• EJ InSight: Capturing the Invisible — Photographing Extreme Heat Waves [54]
• Inside Story: Beat Reporter Spotlights Costs of California's Environmental Reckoning [55]
• Inside Story: Reporter Unravels Complex Dynamic Between Climate Change and Nature [56]
• Inside Story: Reporting on Storm Chasing’s ‘Human Side’ Hints at Climate’s Future [57]
• BookShelf: With Climate, an Undercurrent of Violence [58]
• BookShelf: ‘Carbon Colonialism’ Details the Exporting of Degradation, Climate Collapse [59]
• BookShelf: Between the Lines — Author Explores Experience of Living Through Climate Change [60]

WatchDogs

• Why Nobelists Are Joining the Fight Against Disinformation’s Dangers [61]
• Disinformation Presents New Challenges to Environmental Journalists [62]
• Climate Censorship, Part II, Courtesy Wall Street Journal’s Editorial Board [63]
• Climate ‘Censorship’ Raised in Disinformation Fracas [64]

Special Reports

• Climate Change Resource Guide [65]
• Covering Climate Solutions [66]
• Covering Your Climate: The South [67]
• Covering Your Climate: The Emerald Corridor [68]

EJ TransitionWatch

• ‘One Big, Beautiful Bill’ Could Undo Biden’s Climate Progress [69]
• Climate Action Looks First To Go Under New Administration [70]

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