3+ hour, 14+ min ago  (348+ words) By Joseph A. Davis In order to prove yourself as an environmental journalist, you may just have to put on your boots and start hiking on a national trail." Consider it a happy, healthy and (hopefully) paid vacation. Tell your editor…...

1+ week, 3+ hour ago  (691+ words) By Joseph A. Davis PFAS are a class of some 20, 000 fluorinated chemicals that can be toxic to humans and that persist in the environment. Removing them from drinking water is expensive." The U. S. Environmental Protection Agency began regulating them under the Biden…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago  (207+ words) Paul Ehrlich in 2010. Paul R. Ehrlich/Wikipedia, CC BY Paul Ehrlich, a pioneering scientist, influential public voice on environmental issues and a longtime supporter of SEJ, died March 13, 2026. SEJ mourns his loss." Ehrlich, a Stanford University conservation biologist, was one of…...

3+ week, 3+ hour ago  (302+ words) By Joseph A. Davis A big share of data about our earthly environment comes from satellites. A lot of the time, it comes from National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration satellites flown on NASA rockets. But not always. NASA actually flies its…...

3+ week, 1+ day ago  (1262+ words) By Joseph A. Davis During the Great Permian Extinction 250 million years ago, 70% of all land species went extinct. But not cockroaches. Actually, some 99% of all species that ever lived on Earth have gone extinct. But, again, not cockroaches. (It is believed…...

4+ week, 1+ day ago  (469+ words) By Joseph A. Davis You haven't lived until you've kayaked or rafted through the boiling eddies of a Class 3 rapids or camped in the evening river mist as the froggy drone of spring peepers envelops you. That, and environmental journalists can…...

2+ mon, 5+ day ago  (665+ words) An ambitious investigation into an under-regulated chemical used everywhere from children's art projects to construction sites earned Meg Wilcox's reporting a second place prize for outstanding explanatory reporting, small, in the Society of Environmental Journalists' 23rd Annual Awards for Reporting on…...

2+ mon, 4+ day ago  (670+ words) By Joseph A. Davis Canadian forests are a global resource, with more forest land (at roughly 912 million acres) than even its neighbor, the United States (at roughly 811 million acres)." But it's about more than statistics. For instance, before climate heating took…...

2+ mon, 2+ week ago  (1052+ words) A farm in Ontario installing wildlife hedges. A group of volunteers in Minnesota gathering and distributing native seeds. The pros and cons of various ways to remove your lawn. A community-led pollinator corridor in Melbourne, Australia. A couple planting millions…...

2+ mon, 2+ week ago  (209+ words) As a major winter storm dumped snow and ice across much of the United States this weekend, taking lives, leaving many without power and stalling transportation, the SEJ Publications team offers resources for winter storm reporting in your region. We've…...