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What big energy issues will emerge on the reporting agenda for the year to come? To find out, the SEJ convened a panel of top-flight environmental journalists at the Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington D.C. Jan. 25, 2013.

As SEJournal editors started to put together seemingly disparate stories for this issue on climate change and energy policy, we began to see how deeply interconnected they actually were. To help our readers reflect on their interlocking facets, we’ve grouped a series of stories together in this special report to help make your reporting on energy and climate change more effective.

 

Peter Dykstra's analysis helps environmental journalists sort through the convergence of money, politics, ideology and nature.

William Souder explains how Rachel Carson's seminal 1962 work Silent Spring shaped (and still shapes) modern environmentalism (from his new book, On a Farther Shore: The Life and Legacy of Rachel Carson).

Freelance writer and photographer Roger Archibald tells the tale of the 2012 Florida Wildlife Corridor Expedition, which sought to reclaim a tenuous natural migratory route that the state’s surviving endemic wildlife might once again follow.

 

JoAnn Valenti reports on the best of the 2012 Sundance Film Fest offerings on pesticides, climate change, nuclear power, interactive art installations, and more. © Photo by Yoni Brook of women on a dying lake in India, topic of "Valley of Saints," co-winner of the Sloan science award and a Sundance award winner.