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Highlights from the latest #SEJournal are here. A quick roundup of three new articles from #SEJReporterToolbox, #SEJBackgrounder, and #SEJBookShelf.

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Looks like a great investigative reporting tool!

Keeping tabs to see how this will play out with the partial shutdown with DHS and disaster aid!

Drones are a critical tool for journalist; this threatens that!

Boreal forest shrouded in smoke from a forest fire, in the Salt Plains section of Wood Buffalo National Park, Canada’s largest, in northeastern Alberta and the southern Northwest Territories.

Millions of acres of #Canadian #forest are a big North American story, and the latest #SEJournalReportersToolbox points you to a central data source that can help quantify, analyze and visualize the numbers: www.sej.org/publications... @sejorg.bsky.social @ejtodaynews.bsky.social

Author Meg Wilcox

An #endocrine #disruptor found in widely used epoxy resins remains largely unregulated. We spoke with reporter @megwilcox.bsky.social about her prizewinning reporting on the topic, in #SEJournalInsideStory www.sej.org/publications... @sejorg.bsky.social @ejtodaynews.bsky.social

The author, CD Davidson-Hiers, with student journalist Tarryn Nichols, hiking in the woods in Gainesville, Florida, in 2025.

Two nonprofit teach young writers the basics #environmental #journalism — FL Student News Watch w. @davidsonhiers.bsky.social and IN Youth Environmental Press Team. #SEJournalEJAcademy: www.sej.org/publications... @sejorg.bsky.social @ejtodaynews.bsky.social

A tank removal at the Industriplex Federal Superfund Site in Woburn, Massachusetts, in 2009.

Every U.S. state has at least one #Superfund site and millions live near them. #SEJournalTipSheet has a look at the state of the cleanup program under Trump and how reporters can generate local stories: www.sej.org/publications... @sejorg.bsky.social @ejtodaynews.bsky.social

A winter landscape in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, where a well drilled four decades ago may hold secrets about the potential for oil in this long-protected ecosystem.

Journalists love a secret. And #SEJournalWatchDog has a whopper from one of the most contested ecosystems in the U.S., the #ArcticNationalWildlifeRefuge, reopened for #oilleasing by the Trump administration: www.sej.org/publications... @sejorg.bsky.social @ejtodaynews.bsky.social

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Purple poppy mallow and Missouri evening primrose in a front-yard native-plant garden. Replacing lawns with native plants is one form of rewilding.

#Rewilding: a global movement to restore natural processes and boost biodiversity + an online magazine designed to expose more people to the concept. @kattancock.bsky.social explains: www.sej.org/publications... @sejorg.bsky.social @ejtodaynews.bsky.social @johnrplatt.bsky.social

A satellite image shows Hurricane Ian approaching Florida in late September 2022. Climate disaster data maintained by Climate Central put the cost of damage from the tropical cyclone at $122 billion, with 152 dead

Even though the U.S. suffers multiple billion-$ #climatechange-related catastrophes, the gov't has ceased sharing the #data, per #SEJournalReportersToolbox. But in this case, civil society has rescued the info: www.sej.org/publications... @sejorg.bsky.social @ejtodaynews.bsky.social

Cleanup after the Eaton Fire in Los Angeles County, California, in January 2025.

Writer @yessfun.com calls on #climate reporters to offer a sense of hope by leaning into #solutions narratives — hard-hitting, data-driven stories that hold the powerful accountable. www.sej.org/publications... #SEJournalVoicesofEnvironmentalJustice @sejorg.bsky.social @ejtodaynews.bsky.social

On point! From my FPF colleague on real meaning of charges against Don Lemon and Georgia Fort:

A map showing geothermal resources across the United States. Image:

More heat pumps than ever are going into homes and businesses in the U.S. these days. But they're just one small-scale use of #geothermal #energy, a promising utility-scale technology. #SEJournalBackgrounder explains: www.sej.org/publications... @sejorg.bsky.social @ejtodaynews.bsky.social

Government surveillance of whistleblowers, ordinary citizens, even journalists, could be about to get much worse. Worth the quick watch to find out why.

National Guard soldiers push a stuck motorist’s vehicle in Oakland City, Indiana, during January snowstorms.

In the wake of the massive snowstorm across the U.S., #SEJournalSEJNews offers resources for winter storm reporting in your region. Headlines, Toolboxes and TipSheets for local climate coverage: www.sej.org/publications... @sejorg.bsky.social @ejtodaynews.bsky.social

The Kirtland's warbler, a black and grey bird with yellow breast, sits on a budding flower branch with greenery seen behind.

#Bird populations remain in steep decline, mostly thanks to human activity. But as #SEJournalTipSheet reports, reporting on their disappearance can lead journalists to some bread-and-butter environmental stories: sej.org/publications...
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Approximately 450,000 polluted industrial sites called brownfields are spread across the United States, mapped in this government database. Screenshot: U.S. EPA EnviroAtlas for Brownfields.

Hundreds of thousands of polluted, abandoned industrial sites — #brownfields — dot the U.S. For reporters seeking local environmental stories, these problem spots cry out for coverage: www.sej.org/publications... #SEJournalReportersToolbox bsky.app/profile/sejo... bsky.app/profile/ejto...

Image depicting the cover of the book, "Moving Mountains," for a Q&A in the SEJournal column, BookShelf "Between the Lines."

Writers w. #disabilities & chronic #illnesses explore perspectives on #nature & #environment in a unique anthology, “Moving Mountains.” Editor @louisekenward.bsky.social discusses the recent volume in a new #SEJournalBookShelf Q&A: www.sej.org/publications... @sejorg.bsky.social

This is the second of a new weekly, 90-second press freedom debrief from my boss. Worth checking out and following @Freedom.press, while you're at it!

The author with his first pink salmon, caught off a Seattle bridge with the city’s industrial facilities surrounding him.

Seattle’s heavily polluted Duwamish River is no place to catch fish — except for #salmon. With fishing pole in hand, environmental journalist Alex Brown has this unexpected story. #SEJournalFeature @sejorg.bsky.social @ejtodaynews.bsky.social www.sej.org/publications...

A U.S. Forest Service map showing snow depth on Jan. 2, 2026. Image: U.S. Department of Agriculture screenshot.

Winter weather can reveal a lot about climate change's impacts on your locale. For environmental journalists, an outing to nearby ski slopes could be a smart reporting trip. #SEJournalTipSheet offers up story angles, resources. @sejorg.bsky.social @ejtodaynews.bsky.social www.sej.org/publications...

Such an important perspective from my colleague at SEJournal!

The newly installed Interior Dept head hails from a top fossil fuel-producing state and has close oil industry ties, reports #SEJournalEJTransitionWatch. What former ND Gov. Doug Burgum had to say at his Senate confirmation about U.S. “energy dominance.” www.sej.org/publications...

Good stuff from folks in my shop!

My old shop, kicking butt!

Third-highest annual arrest total for journalists since Tracker started cataloging them. That's a problem.

A must-follow for those who value the ongoing work of journalists in the U.S.!