New Books About Public Lands, the Threats They Face, and Their Importance
"These new books cover challenges to our shared land, ranging from Indigenous appropriation to current corporate grabs."
Source: The Revelator, 04/22/2025
Journalism & Media
"Indigenous River Campaigner From Peru Wins Prestigious Goldman Prize"
"An Indigenous campaigner and women’s leader from the Peruvian Amazon has been awarded the prestigious Goldman prize for environmental activists, after leading a successful legal campaign that led to the river where her people, the Kukama, live being granted legal personhood."
Source: Guardian, 04/22/2025
"Wave of Earth Day Protests As Americans Mobilize Against Trump"
"Hundreds of marches, pickets and cleanup events are taking place across the US in the run-up to Earth Day on Tuesday, as environmental and climate groups step up resistance to the Trump administration’s authoritarianism and its “war on the planet”."
Source: Guardian, 04/22/2025
"EPA Withholds Layoff, Restructuring Plan"
"EPA rebuffed attempts to make public its initial downsizing and reorganization plan submitted for White House review." "The Phase 1 “Agency RIF and Reorganization Plan,” which was due at the White House on March 13, remains shrouded in secrecy."
Source: E&E News, 04/21/2025
"DOJ Questions Science Journal About Bias, Triggering Free-Speech Concerns"
"Amid brewing conflict between scientists and the administration of President Donald Trump, the U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia sent an unusual letter this week to a scientific journal focused on diseases and medicine related to the chest, asking about its editorial policies."
Source: Washington Post, 04/21/2025
"Trump May Target Environmental Nonprofits in Executive Orders"
"Sources in Washington, including within the Department of Justice and on Capitol Hill, have told Inside Climate News that White House officials are preparing executive orders on environmental issues. One order, they say, would target the tax exempt status of environmental nonprofits, particularly those that do legal work."
Source: Inside Climate News, 04/21/2025
Can a City on Fire Be Photographed? Yes, Says One Photojournalist
Will images of a burning Los Angeles last in our consciousness? EJ InSight editor Andrew Cullen makes a powerful argument that they will, illustrating the point with potent photographs of that disaster, as well as from recent hurricanes. An exploration of how photojournalists, working amid the destruction, strive to document not just the devastation but its deeper significance and its human toll.
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Student Newsroom Returns for Coverage of #SEJ2025
More than two dozen student reporters and editors from The Arizona Republic will provide coverage of the 34th annual Society of Environmental Journalists conference at Arizona State University from April 23-26. The team will report numerous sessions, workshops, plenaries and tours, with SEJournal carrying special reports in its April 30 and May 7 issues. More on this year’s student newsroom and the conference itself. Stay tuned!
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Covering Wildfire — Expert Advice on Emerging Issues, Recurring Risks
With wildfires becoming more extreme in every way, reporters covering them face new challenges along with familiar hazards. A pair of experienced wildfire journalists and others on the front lines offer advice on dealing with access restrictions, on-the-ground dangers, toxic exposure risks and traumatized survivors — as climate change speeds up the news cycle and misinformation muddies the reporting landscape.
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