Top Climate Change Stories From SEJournal
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A coal-fired power plant in Cheshire, Ohio, one of the largest in the nation. Greenhouse gas emissions from such facilities are inventoried by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, and that data can be used by journalists to report on local global warming stories. Photo: peggydavis66, Flickr Creative Commons. Click to enlarge. |
Updated September 2023
TipSheets
- Heat Warning — Expect Extreme Temps To Be Local Story This Summer
- Reporters Can Address Uncertainty Over Local Risk of Rising Seas
- Bringing the Climate Crisis Story Home in 2023
- As Concern Over Methane Mounts, Emission Controls Yield Stories
- Extreme Rainfall Offers Journalists a Deluge of Environment, Climate Stories
- Keeping Up With Victims Displaced by Climate Disasters
Toolboxes
- Temperature Shift Tool May Help Journalists Clarify Climate Impacts
- New ‘Climate Trace’ Emissions Database Unveiled at COP27
- Fossil Fuels Registry Promises Global Warming Data. Does It Deliver?
- Newly Released Greenhouse Gas Inventory Offers Local Reporting Opportunities
- NOAA Data Portal Is a Great Home Port for Environmental Journalists
Backgrounders
- How To Power Through Your EPA Power Plant Rule Coverage
- COP 27 Egypt — From Afar, How UN Meeting Will Affect Climate Change Reporting
- Climate Change Action May Depend on Supreme Court
- Climate Crisis May Quickly Confront U.S., World With National Security Threats
- Climate Resiliency — When a Disaster Becomes a Cascade
- As Climate Change Brings Extreme Heat Events, Human Health Is a Casualty
Features
- From TV Meteorologists, More Straight Talk About Climate Change
- Why Journalists Should Investigate the Twin Mental Health and Climate Crises
- Collaborative Journalism Project Reveals Inequities in Escaping Climate Change Hazards
- How — And Why —To Avoid Jargon When Covering Climate
- Covering New IPCC Reports Helps Explain Gravity of Climate Crisis
- How Climate Attribution Science Went Mainstream, and What It Means
- Covering Climate Change in the Forgotten Places: A Moroccan Journalist’s View
Inside Story Q&As
- Reporting on Storm Chasing’s ‘Human Side’ Hints at Climate’s Future
- Climate Change at Core of Beat Reporters’ Award-Winning Coverage
WatchDogs
- Why Nobelists Are Joining the Fight Against Disinformation’s Dangers
- Disinformation Presents New Challenges to Environmental Journalists
- Climate Censorship, Part II, Courtesy Wall Street Journal’s Editorial Board
- Climate ‘Censorship’ Raised in Disinformation Fracas
- Battlefront Emerges Over Disclosure of Financial Climate Risks
- Climate Risk Disclosure Guides Journalists, Not Just Investors
Special Reports
- Covering Climate Solutions
- Covering Your Climate: The South
- Covering Your Climate: The Emerald Corridor
- Climate Change Resource Guide
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