Top Disaster Stories From SEJournal

Updated May 2026

TipSheets

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

Toolboxes

• Hazard Duty — Government Data Portals Help Report Extreme Weather [16]
• Trump Tries (and Fails) To Disappear Climate Disaster Data [17]
• Database of Flood Events Helps Cover Catastrophes, Past or Present [18]
• As One Door Shuts on Climate Risk Data, News Outlet Opens Another [19]
• New-Look Landslide Risk Database Captures Potential Human Costs [20]
• Spill-Tracking Data Sources Help Cover Hazmat Events [21]
• Here’s Your Handy Doomsday Dataviz Dashboard [22]
• Coming Your Way by Rail Today — A Hazmat Rogues’ Gallery [23]
• Hazmat Highway Routes Key to Keeping Public Safe [24]
• Outfit Your News Kit With Disaster Resilience Resources [25]
• Storm Surge Maps Help Envision Potential Hurricane Flood Catastrophes [26]
• Grid Data Can Guide Reporting on Power Disasters [27]
• CAMEO Software Can Help Journalists Cover Chemical Disasters [28]

Backgrounders

• Coastal Flooding Challenges Cities Around the U.S. [29]
• Chemical Safety Board May Have Finally Cleaned Its Slate. What Now? [30]
• Rockets and Bombs and Chemicals — The Environmental Horrors of War [31]
• Climate Resiliency — When a Disaster Becomes a Cascade [32]

Features

• Beyond the Fires and Floods — Comprehensively Covering Disasters [33]
• Chemical Plants, Terrorism and Regulations May Be Back on the Agenda [34]
• Disabilities and Disasters — What Questions Should You Be Asking Planners? [35]
• Storm Warning — How To Prepare for Weather Disaster Reporting [36]
• Reporters Reveal True Toll From Texas Winter Storm, Outages [37]

Inside Story

• Reporters Expose Failed Systems After Hurricane Ian, Maui Fires [38]
• A Town Derailed, a Trust Obtained [39]
• When the Crisis Was Immense, SEJ Award-Winner Went Narrow [40]

Voices of Environmental Justice

• To Cover Climate Equity Well, Journalists Must Maintain Mental Health [41]
• The Community We’ve Long Ignored [42]

EJ InSight

• Can a City on Fire Be Photographed? Yes, Says One Photojournalist [43]
• Capturing the Invisible — Photographing Extreme Heat Waves [44]

WatchDogs

• Wildfire DisInformation Becomes a State Weapon, Aided by AI [45]
• The 9/11 Legacy — Fear Drew Curtain Over Environmental Information [46]
• A Chance To Widen Public Information About Chemical Hazards [47]

SEJ News

• Winter Storm — Reporting Resources From SEJ Publications [48]

Special Report

• Floods, Fires, Dysfunction — Another Year Ahead of Faltering Steps on Environment, Energy [49]

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