Useful Links

SEJ offers links to environmental websites useful to journalists. If you'd like to suggest a great resource for this page, please send it to SEJ's web content manager Cindy MacDonald.

The Open Notebook's Science Writers Database

This database is a free, public tool to connect science writers of all kinds and help them diversify their networks. You can browse or use the search, sort, and filter tools. Journalists, writers, editors and communicators who cover science, health, environment or technology are invited to join.

Useful Links
Visibility:
Public
National (U.S.)
International
Journalism & Media
Science
- Read more about The Open Notebook's Science Writers Database
Earth HQ

Latest news, science and solutions from across the globe in real time with interactive maps. A joint project of Global Commons Alliance, Resource Watch, earth.nullschool.net and NowThis Earth, powered by environmental news site Mongabay.

Useful Links
Visibility:
Public
National (U.S.)
International
Climate Change
Disasters
Journalism & Media
People & Population
Technology
- Read more about Earth HQ
PHMSA Emergency Response Guidebook (ERG)

The ERG is a potential life-saving tool you can keep on your cell phone. It gives you the 4-digit ID Number for a chemical name, which allows you to find the 3-digit Action Guide number for detailed information about how a spill should be handled.

Useful Links
Visibility:
Public
National (U.S.)
Chemicals
Disasters
Government
Health
- Read more about PHMSA Emergency Response Guidebook (ERG)
Renewables on the Rise Dashboard

Journalists can use this online tool from Environment America and PIRG to track the growth of clean energy state-by-state for wind and solar energy; electric vehicle sales and charging ports; energy savings; and battery storage capacity. Data sources and methodology are provided.

Useful Links
Visibility:
Public
National (U.S.)
Activism
- Read more about Renewables on the Rise Dashboard
GriddingMachine

Climate Modeling Alliance's GriddingMachine provides a way for journalists to more easily reuse public datasets, saving time because you don't have to find, format and read the data yourself.

Useful Links
Visibility:
Public
Technology
- Read more about GriddingMachine
Realtime Climate

Climate Central's Realtime Climate tool will automatically send alerts when unusual weather, tides and other climate phenomena are detected in your area of the US — including information about the climate change context, when it's most relevant and useful, particularly for journalists.

Useful Links
Visibility:
Public
National (U.S.)
Climate Change
Journalism & Media
- Read more about Realtime Climate
Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances (PFAS) – Scientific & Technical Studies/Resources

The Environmental Research & Education Foundation offers free access to their catalog of 600 data-driven, PFAS-related articles and other content material. The catalog is updated regularly and can be downloaded in Excel.

Useful Links
Visibility:
Public
Chemicals
Environmental Health
Health
- Read more about Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances (PFAS) – Scientific & Technical Studies/Resources
Women in Film & Video

Washington, DC-based Women in Film & Video is a peer-to-peer forum for beginners through to advanced, with level-based membership fees. They provide advance notice of jobs, grants, festivals, scholarships, preview screenings, helpful members-only listservs and reduced admission for educational programs.

Useful Links
Visibility:
Public
Mid-Atlantic (DC DE MD PA VA WV)
Diversity
Journalism & Media
- Read more about Women in Film & Video
The Uproot Project

This Grist-supported network is for journalists of color who cover environmental issues, or aspire to. Open to journalists and students of all races, ethnicities and backgrounds, but with a primary directive to grow the careers of journalists of color and to expand diversity in newsrooms, especially those covering communities disproportionately affected by the climate emergency.

Useful Links
Visibility:
Public
National (U.S.)
Climate Change
Diversity
Environmental Health
Environmental Justice
Health
Journalism & Media
People & Population
- Read more about The Uproot Project
Climate Reporting Master Class

This free, online program from Climate Matters in the Newsroom is designed to help journalists up their game in incorporating climate change into their reporting on every beat.

Useful Links
Visibility:
Public
Climate Change
Disasters
Energy & Fuel
Environmental Justice
Journalism & Media
Water & Oceans
- Read more about Climate Reporting Master Class

Pages

Advertisement

Advertise with SEJ