“Indigenous worldviews hold solutions the world needs in order to be able to tackle the climate catastrophe at our doorsteps.”
We’re thrilled to bring SEJ’s global community to Halifax for our first international conference. Stay tuned for details!
✉️If you’re ready to share ideas for SEJ2027, drop us a line: [email protected]
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Is the United States in the midst of a “nuclear renaissance”? This two-part #SEJournalBackgrounder explores the question, from next-generation reactor design and the independence of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to the ongoing challenge of nuclear waste. Plus, revisit Part 1 for a look at the government’s role in developing nuclear power and an earlier push to revive the industry.
#nuclearenergy #journalism #energytransition
Read: /publications/backgrounders/what-half-life-nuclear-revival-part-2
Emissions of the #globalwarming gas #methane are widely tracked through #satellite sensors, despite some unexpected bumps in the data-gathering effort. But a big challenge is how to interpret and use the resulting insights in your coverage. The latest #SEJournalReportersToolbox points out several important methane datasets and offers useful insights into how to turn them into stories.
Read: #linkinbio
Scouring the skies for
#methane data, unpacking the “nuclear renaissance,” and a powerful BookShelf read on protecting Siberian tigers — highlights from the latest SEJournal.
Full stories at #linkinbio New issues every Wednesday.
Check out our library of videos on the SEJournal Youtube Channel.
#SEJReportersToolbox #SEJBackgrounder #SEJBookShelf
Is the United States in the midst of a “nuclear renaissance”?
This two-part Issue #SEJournalBackgrounder explores that question, beginning in Part 1 with a look at the government’s part in developing #nuclear power, including through subsidies, as well as why the new reactors built earlier in the 2000s didn’t really make the case for the industry’s rebirth.
Read: #linkinbio
SEJournal’s second round of #SEJ2026 tour coverage is now live, featuring reporting from day-long excursions across the #Chicago region during the Society of Environmental Journalists’ annual conference, held April 15–18, 2026.
Early-career freelance #journalists joined #SEJournal editors to report on environmental stories unfolding on the ground — from infrastructure and industry to ecosystems and community impacts.
Explore all eight tour reports at #linkinbio
The population of Siberian tigers, the second-largest subspecies in the world, took a turn for the worse after the fall of the Soviet Union. But an international team of #biologists in remote #Russia has been working to try to save the big cats. “Tigers Between Empires” traces that effort, in a new #SEJournalBookShelf review from contributing editor @jenniferweeks83 Weeks.
Read: #linkinbio
#SEJ2026 highlights are here! This week: on-the-scene coverage from the conference tours in Chicago — plus a post-conference spoof, “War and Pizza,” roasting the earnest sessions, blown-up tours, and beat dinners.
Read: #linkinbio
#SEJournal #EnvironmentalJournalism #SEJ2026 #Chicago #ConferenceReporting
Nearly as rejuvenating as attending the Society of Environmental Journalists’ annual gathering is perusing the après-conference spoof by contributing quipster David Helvarg. While it seemed he was mostly there unabashedly preselling his forthcoming book, he somehow found time to send up SEJ’s earnest sessions, lambast its blown-up tours and rib its beat dinners. Read his #Chicago roast.
Read more: #linkinbio
Go on the scene of day-long tours from the annual Society of Environmental Journalists’ conference, April 15-18, in #Chicago. Contributing journalists provide the first round of tour coverage from a conference newsroom of early-career freelance journalists who joined the #SEJournal team for live #SEJ2026 coverage.
Read More: #linkinbio
And the Nina Mason Pulliam Award goes to… 🏆
This year, it belongs to Erin McCormick and Verónica García de León Robles of The Guardian and Quinto Elemento Lab for their investigation into how U.S. hazardous waste is poisoning communities across the border in Mexico and Canada.
“Partnering with Quinto Elemento opened up worlds for us that we never knew existed — and created a channel to the people in Mexico who needed to know about this reporting,” McCormick said.
García de León Robles described how residents living near the Monterrey facility had long raised concerns about pollution without seeing action.
The Nina Mason Pulliam Award recognizes the best of the best — one first-place winner selected across all categories. Their investigation sparked protests in two countries, prompted five plant closures, led to the cleanup of 30,000 tons of hazardous material and caused the company at the center of the story to relocate its most polluting operations.
One judge called it among the best public service work they’d ever read.
Congratulations, Erin and Verónica 🎉
Read the full investigation at the link in bio. 🔗#SEJAwards
#SEJ2026 brought together reporters, editors, students, scientists, communicators, community voices and partners for learning, connection and urgent conversation about the reporting our planet and communities need now.
Thank you to every attendee, speaker, moderator, sponsor, volunteer and partner who made our 35th annual conference possible. Special appreciation to our hosts @thisisuic and MacArthur Foundation for bringing us to Chicago, especially to @uicchancellor Marie Lynn Miranda, MacArthur Foundation President @johnpalfrey for joining @WBEZChicago 's @sosassee on our plenary stage!
From workshops and plenaries to awards, beat dinners and field tours, this year’s conference showed the depth, urgency and reach of the environmental journalism community.
Attendees, watch your inbox for the post-conference survey. Your feedback will help shape what comes next in Halifax!
See you April 14-17 in Nova Scotia for #SEJ2027 🇨🇦
