Top Disaster Stories From SEJournal

Updated June 2026

TipSheets

• Is Climate Disaster Insurance a Worsening Disaster? [2]
• Is Disaster Aid Backlog Becoming a (Blue State) Disaster? [3]
• Dam Safety Firings Leave Downstream Residents at Risk [4]
• When Disasters Hit, Nursing Homes Can Be Disasters Waiting To Happen [5]
• Will Your Local Dam Turn Deadly in the Next Big Storm? [6]
• Is Your Community Ready for Tornadoes? Are You? [7]
• New HeatRisk Data Site Helps Warn on Health Threats [8]
• Drainage Infrastructure Leads to Wet Basement Stories [9]
• Do Home Buyers Have a Right to Flood Risk Disclosure? [10]
• Home Insurance Likely To Be a 2024 Climate Story Near You [11]
• Dangerous Inland Flooding in Reporters’ Forecast [12]
• When Extreme Weather Amplifies Hazardous Waste Threats [13]
• Finding the Secret Rail Hazmat Routes Near You [14]
• Keeping Up With Victims Displaced by Climate Disasters [15]
• Ready for Climate Change-Induced Grid Blackouts Along With Heat Waves? [16]

Toolboxes

• Hazard Duty — Government Data Portals Help Report Extreme Weather [17]
• Trump Tries (and Fails) To Disappear Climate Disaster Data [18]
• Database of Flood Events Helps Cover Catastrophes, Past or Present [19]
• As One Door Shuts on Climate Risk Data, News Outlet Opens Another [20]
• New-Look Landslide Risk Database Captures Potential Human Costs [21]
• Spill-Tracking Data Sources Help Cover Hazmat Events [22]
• Here’s Your Handy Doomsday Dataviz Dashboard [23]
• Coming Your Way by Rail Today — A Hazmat Rogues’ Gallery [24]
• Hazmat Highway Routes Key to Keeping Public Safe [25]
• Outfit Your News Kit With Disaster Resilience Resources [26]
• Storm Surge Maps Help Envision Potential Hurricane Flood Catastrophes [27]
• Grid Data Can Guide Reporting on Power Disasters [28]
• CAMEO Software Can Help Journalists Cover Chemical Disasters [29]

Backgrounders

• Coastal Flooding Challenges Cities Around the U.S. [30]
• Chemical Safety Board May Have Finally Cleaned Its Slate. What Now? [31]
• Rockets and Bombs and Chemicals — The Environmental Horrors of War [32]
• Climate Resiliency — When a Disaster Becomes a Cascade [33]

Features

• Beyond the Fires and Floods — Comprehensively Covering Disasters [34]
• Chemical Plants, Terrorism and Regulations May Be Back on the Agenda [35]
• Disabilities and Disasters — What Questions Should You Be Asking Planners? [36]
• Storm Warning — How To Prepare for Weather Disaster Reporting [37]
• Reporters Reveal True Toll From Texas Winter Storm, Outages [38]

Inside Story

• Reporters Expose Failed Systems After Hurricane Ian, Maui Fires [39]
• A Town Derailed, a Trust Obtained [40]
• When the Crisis Was Immense, SEJ Award-Winner Went Narrow [41]

Voices of Environmental Justice

• To Cover Climate Equity Well, Journalists Must Maintain Mental Health [42]
• The Community We’ve Long Ignored [43]

EJ InSight

• Can a City on Fire Be Photographed? Yes, Says One Photojournalist [44]
• Capturing the Invisible — Photographing Extreme Heat Waves [45]

WatchDogs

• Wildfire DisInformation Becomes a State Weapon, Aided by AI [46]
• The 9/11 Legacy — Fear Drew Curtain Over Environmental Information [47]
• A Chance To Widen Public Information About Chemical Hazards [48]

SEJ News

• Winter Storm — Reporting Resources From SEJ Publications [49]

Special Report

• Floods, Fires, Dysfunction — Another Year Ahead of Faltering Steps on Environment, Energy [50]

All Disaster Stories From SEJournal [51]     All Disaster Headlines From EJToday [52]

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