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Why Now’s the Time To Tell a Good Fish Tale

With fishing season underway across the United States, reporters have a line to an array of great, local environmental stories, whether about the recreation and tourism industries or overfishing and the health of regional ecosystems. The latest TipSheet has more than a dozen story ideas and reporting resources to help you reel in an angle of your own.

#SEJSpotlight on Members

Meet SEJ member Ainsley Platt! Ainsley is a reporter for the Arkansas Advocate based out of Little Rock, where she covers state government with a focus on environment reporting. She covers everything from environmental regulations to lithium extraction efforts to big dam controversies. Want SEJ to promote your work to our social media followers? Here's how.

SEJ's Environmental Events Calendar: Featured Event

Our Calendar lists professional meetings, webinars, press conferences, awards/fellowships/workshops deadlines and more. June 13 deadline (earlybird): The Big Sky Documentary Film Festival seeks submissions for its 23rd annual event in Feb 2026. Open to non-fiction films and videos of all genres, subject matter, lengths and production dates. Cash prizes. Deadlines: Jun 13 (early); Aug 15 (regular); Oct 3 (final).

#SEJ2025 Annual Conference, Arizona, April 23-26

See multimedia coverage of SEJ's 34th annual conference, hosted at Arizona State University, with videos of the Friday plenaries and coverage stories of many sessions. Audio recordings are posted here, for Society of Environmental Journalists members only. Not a member? Join now.

Share How SEJ2025 Is Shaping Your Work: Are you working on a story, series or project sparked or shaped by your time in Arizona and experience at SEJ2025? We’d love to hear about it! SEJ is always looking to highlight the powerful work and collaborations our community produces.

SEJ Publication Highlights

From Fear to Fascination — A New Insect Narrative

06/04/2025 – Media coverage of “bugs” is often sensationalistic and centered on fear and disgust. But conservation photographer and writer Danae Wolfe says journalists should be highlighting the importance, beauty and plight of insects and spiders. Reporting that offers alternative perspectives on these essential creatures can inspire curiosity and admiration, and encourage efforts to protect them. Wolfe on why to write about insects.

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Analysis: Trump Administration Attacks Science, As Environment Suffers

06/04/2025 – It’s not just scientists who are being lost to the new administration’s extensive firings of federal workers. A Backgrounder Analysis argues it’s the science itself. It’s happening at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, but also across agencies that conduct research to protect health and the environment, whether around toxic chemicals or on the battleground of climate change science. A frank look at the reality and what’s being lost for journalists and the communities they serve.

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In West Bank, Hope for Future in Link Between Land and People

05/28/2025 – On a tour of the West Bank this spring, Yessenia Funes found a region where the relationship between land and people serves as a counterweight to occupation and the threat of violence. For her Voices of Environmental Justice column, Funes exhorts fellow environment journalists to report on that struggle, through stories that touch on wildlife, wildfire, food, climate and more.

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EJToday: Headlines

"Why Are So Many Of Canada’s Wildfires Burning ‘Out Of Control’?"

Washington Post, 06/05/2025
"Top CDC Covid Vaccine Adviser Quits After RFK Jr. Ended Recommendations"

Washington Post, 06/05/2025
Supt. Of Crater Lake National Park Resigns, Says Trump Dismantling Agency

KGW8, 06/05/2025
"The Trump EPA Tried To Bury Some Good News"

Yale Climate Connections, 06/05/2025
"Senate to Add Public Land Sales to Help Pay for Trump's Tax Cuts"

Bloomberg, 06/05/2025
Plastic Mulch Promised Better Harvests. It May Be Hurting The Soil Instead.

Yale Climate Connections, 06/05/2025
"Lutnick Says Hurricane Center Is Fully Staffed Despite Key Vacancies"

Bloomberg, 06/05/2025
"USDOT Seeks Comment on Pipeline and Hazmat Regulatory Relief"

Pipeline Technology Journal, 06/05/2025
"A Salt Crisis Is Looming For U.S. Rivers"

Washington Post, 06/05/2025
Joy As 10 Tasmanian Devil Joeys Emerge From Australia’s Breeding Program

Australian AP, 06/05/2025

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