Top Climate Change Stories From SEJournal
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Updated May 2026
TipSheets
- Ski Patrol — How Snow Helps Tell Local Climate Story
- The Polar Vortex Portends … the Planting of Seeds?
- How Ice Fishing Can Break the Ice on Your Local Climate Story
- Climate Health Impacts Can Multiply Local Story Possibilities
- Home Insurance Likely To Be a 2024 Climate Story Near You
- 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
Toolboxes
- Scouring the Skies for Methane Data
- Trump Tries (and Fails) To Disappear Climate Disaster Data
- As Realty Risk Data Is Pulled From Web, Alternatives Are Ready
- Trump Administration Icing Out NSIDC Data
- As COP29 Begins, Where Can You Get Good Climate Emissions Data?
- Is Climate Data at Risk From Natural Disasters?
- Map Model Offers Up Data on Climate Disaster-Proofing
- Student Journalists Show the Way on Data With Methane Flaring Project
- New Climate Vulnerability Index Made for Local, Regional Stories
- 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
- At COP30, Amazon Rainforest Is Center Stage for Climate Catastrophe
- DOE Climate ‘Endangerment’ Report Sparks Stormy Retort
- COP30 — Why It Won’t Save the Planet
- Coastal Flooding Challenges Cities Around the U.S.
- How Climate Change Complicates the Refugee Crisis
- The EPA’s Power Plant Rule … We’ll See You in Court
- How To Power Through Your EPA Power Plant Rule Coverage
- 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 & More
- Graphic Content — Journalistic Lessons From Crossing Genres
- Covering the Health Impacts of Extreme Heat — An Arizona Reporter Weighs In
- Better Communicating for the Climate
- Eat Local for Climate’s Sake? No, Eat Less Meat
- What Francis' Latest Climate Text Means for Upcoming UN Summit
- 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
- How Climate Attribution Science Went Mainstream, and What It Means
- Voices of Environmental Justice: Solutions Stories a Compass for Readers
- Voices of Environmental Justice: Climate Crisis Makes for Real Fashion Emergency
- Voices of Environmental Justice: What’s Ahead on Climate Justice, Climate Crisis Beat
- FEJ StoryLog: Climate Solutions, for Some, May Not Be
- Freelance Files: Covering Food Systems — The Next Climate Action Battleground
- EJ InSight: Capturing the Invisible — Photographing Extreme Heat Waves
- Inside Story: Beat Reporter Spotlights Costs of California's Environmental Reckoning
- Inside Story: Reporter Unravels Complex Dynamic Between Climate Change and Nature
- Inside Story: Reporting on Storm Chasing’s ‘Human Side’ Hints at Climate’s Future
- BookShelf: With Climate, an Undercurrent of Violence
- BookShelf: ‘Carbon Colonialism’ Details the Exporting of Degradation, Climate Collapse
- BookShelf: Between the Lines — Author Explores Experience of Living Through Climate Change
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
Special Reports
- Climate Change Resource Guide
- Covering Climate Solutions
- Covering Your Climate: The South
- Covering Your Climate: The Emerald Corridor
EJ TransitionWatch
- ‘One Big, Beautiful Bill’ Could Undo Biden’s Climate Progress
- Climate Action Looks First To Go Under New Administration
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