Top Disaster Stories From SEJournal

Updated November 2024

Special Report

• Floods, Fires, Dysfunction — Another Year Ahead of Faltering Steps on Environment, Energy [2]

TipSheets

• When Disasters Hit, Nursing Homes Can Be Disasters Waiting To Happen [3]
• Will Your Local Dam Turn Deadly in the Next Big Storm? [4]
• Is Your Community Ready for Tornadoes? Are You? [5]
• New HeatRisk Data Site Helps Warn on Health Threats [6]
• Drainage Infrastructure Leads to Wet Basement Stories [7]
• Do Home Buyers Have a Right to Flood Risk Disclosure? [8]
• Home Insurance Likely To Be a 2024 Climate Story Near You [9]
• Dangerous Inland Flooding in Reporters’ Forecast [10]
• When Extreme Weather Amplifies Hazardous Waste Threats [11]
• Finding the Secret Rail Hazmat Routes Near You [12]
• Keeping Up With Victims Displaced by Climate Disasters [13]
• Ready for Climate Change-Induced Grid Blackouts Along With Heat Waves? [14]

Toolboxes

• New-Look Landslide Risk Database Captures Potential Human Costs [15]
• Spill-Tracking Data Sources Help Cover Hazmat Events [16]
• Here’s Your Handy Doomsday Dataviz Dashboard [17]
• Coming Your Way by Rail Today — A Hazmat Rogues’ Gallery [18]
• Hazmat Highway Routes Key to Keeping Public Safe [19]
• Outfit Your News Kit With Disaster Resilience Resources [20]
• Storm Surge Maps Help Envision Potential Hurricane Flood Catastrophes [21]
• Grid Data Can Guide Reporting on Power Disasters [22]
• CAMEO Software Can Help Journalists Cover Chemical Disasters [23]

Backgrounders

• Chemical Safety Board May Have Finally Cleaned Its Slate. What Now? [24]
• Rockets and Bombs and Chemicals — The Environmental Horrors of War [25]
• Climate Resiliency — When a Disaster Becomes a Cascade [26]

Features

• Chemical Plants, Terrorism and Regulations May Be Back on the Agenda [27]
• Disabilities and Disasters — What Questions Should You Be Asking Planners? [28]
• Storm Warning — How To Prepare for Weather Disaster Reporting [29]
• Reporters Reveal True Toll From Texas Winter Storm, Outages [30]

Voices of Environmental Justice

• To Cover Climate Equity Well, Journalists Must Maintain Mental Health [31]
• The Community We’ve Long Ignored [32]

EJ InSight

• Capturing the Invisible — Photographing Extreme Heat Waves [33]

Inside Story

• When the Crisis Was Immense, SEJ Award-Winner Went Narrow [34]

WatchDogs

• Wildfire DisInformation Becomes a State Weapon, Aided by AI [35]
• The 9/11 Legacy — Fear Drew Curtain Over Environmental Information [36]
• A Chance To Widen Public Information About Chemical Hazards [37]

All Disaster Stories From SEJournal [38]     All Disaster Headlines From EJToday [39]

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