The Society of Environmental Journalists is pleased to announce the Kevin Carmody Award for Outstanding Investigative Reporting, Large winners of the 2024 SEJ Awards for Reporting on the Environment. Read/watch the stories.
Biodiversity loss can seem like a remote and abstract problem that pales in comparison to climate worries. But award-winning author David Quammen sees them as coequal threats, along with emerging diseases, and encourages journalists to illuminate the relationships between them. His advice includes getting out of big cities to see the extinction crisis firsthand and weaving humor and hope into your writing.
"A comprehensive review of dodo science offers new insights into the biology and behavior of the much-ridiculed bird."
"The GOP-controlled House approved a resolution Friday that would overturn a new Biden administration rule on automobile emissions that Republicans say would force Americans to buy unaffordable electric vehicles they don’t want."
"A new study suggests osprey chicks are starving in parts of the Chesapeake Bay because of a lack of menhaden, a primary source of food but also a major industry."
"Soon after Ashanta Laster reached the hospital, she was ushered into the emergency room where she saw doctors performing CPR on her teenage son. Laster had gotten a call that 17-year-old Phillip Laster Jr., a lineman who played for a top Mississippi high school, had collapsed on the field during an August 2022 practice."
"The board of The Fund for Responding to Loss and Damage to help countries ravaged by climate-driven disasters named Senegalese finance specialist Ibrahima Cheikh Diong as its first director, the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change announced on Saturday."
"The Department of Energy gave the Confederated Tribes and Bands of the Yakama Nation what seemed like very good news earlier this year: It had won a $32 million grant for a novel solar energy project in Washington state. ... Months after announcing the grant, the same department is making it nearly impossible for the tribal nation to access the money."
"The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission approved on Friday the first guidelines for trading voluntary carbon credit derivative contracts in the country, a move expected to help bolster the nascent market."
"Unbearable heat and worsening storms prompt residents of states such as Florida to move elsewhere"
"As a Rust belt town of 65,000 people in eastern Indiana, Muncie may not be the most exciting place in the world. It doesn’t have beaches, year-round warm weather or much in the way of cosmopolitanism.
But for Laura Rivas, a cybersecurity engineer formerly of North Miami Beach, Florida, Muncie is perfect.
Before she moved there in 2022, life in Florida had become unbearable.
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