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Gloom And Doom? SEJ's Climate Is Anything But

By TIM WHEELER

A reader sent me an email recently asking why my newspaper so often seemed to take a "negative slant" on the day's news. "All we hear is crime, the death of real estate, toxins, and maybe if someone is in a good mood something about how much fun this place is," the frustrated reader lamented.
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'Horror Movie' Approach Reaches Wide TV Audience

By BILL DAWSON

In a time of ever-accelerating change in American journalism, it probably shouldn't have come as that much of a surprise that one of the big winners in SEJ's 6th Annual Awards for Reporting on the Environment was a documentary with the trappings of a cheesy horror movie.
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Editors Focus New Attention On Climate Change, Environment

By CHRIS BOWMAN

The Society of Environmental Journalists broke major ground at this year's national conference in attracting 18 news executives to day-long dialogues with experts on global warming, one of the biggest and most difficult-to-tell stories of our time.
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Bookshelf: The Clean Tech Revolution: The Next Big Growth And Investment Opportunity

The Clean Tech Revolution: the Next Big Growth And Investment Opportunity
by Ron Pernick and Clint Wilder
Reviewed by SUSAN MORAN
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Bookshelf: Exploration Of 'God's Reservoir' Informs and Delights

Sacred Sea: A Journey to Lake Baikal
By Peter Thomson
Reviewed by Krestia DeGeorge

Sometimes, being the biggest, the oldest and the deepest thing can define its fundamental nature.

A case in point: Russia's Lake Baikal. In his new book, "Sacred Sea: A Journey to Lake Baikal," SEJ member Peter Thomson makes a strong case that the lake's superlative features set it apart from the rest of the world's large freshwater seas.

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Undersea Reporting: Reporting Live From Inside Aquarius

By JEFF BURNSIDE

When I heard the anchor in my earpiece introducing me reporting live from an undersea research lab, I could hardly believe all the technical aspects were working.

But they were. So I figured I'd better stop being amazed and actually start talking. On Sept. 20, I was the first reporter ever to broadcast live from Aquarius, the world's only undersea lab, nine miles off Key Largo, Fla. next to a coral reef about 60 feet deep. Don't screw it up, I told myself.
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Network News Going Green: America's TV Networks Racing To Cover Environmental Issues

By JEFF BURNSIDE

America's television network news operations are increasing their coverage of environmental issues, reflecting a pendulum swing of interest among Americans in general.
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Covering Coal Country: Overcoming The Obstacles To Reporting In Rural America

By AL CROSS

Many if not most environmental stories have their roots in rural places. Those are the places where extractive industries do almost all their extracting, where America ultimately puts much of its solid waste, where farm fields get the fertilizers that create dead zones in the sea.
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Reporter's Three Decades On The Beat Bring Awards, Honors

By BILL DAWSON

Jane Kay is one of environmental journalism's most honored and respected reporters. The San Francisco Chronicle's environment writer, she is a two-time winner of the Scripps Howard Foundation's Edward J. Meeman Award.

Last September, for a diverse portfolio of articles, she received the first-place award in the "Outstanding Beat Reporting - Print" category in SEJ's 6th Annual Awards for Reporting on the Environment. The judges said:
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Regulating Trade Could Curtail Invasive Species

By RHITU CHATTERJEE

In 2003, more than 50 people in the Midwest became ill with the monkey pox virus. The source for the African pathogen – pet prairie dogs that were kept next to infected Gambian pouch rats in a pet store.

In the early 1970s, Arkansas aquaculturists imported the Asian Black carp to control fish parasites in aquaculture ponds. Now these mussel-eating fish are happily lurking deep in the waters of the Mississippi River Basin. Scientists fear that they may be driving precious endangered snails and mussels to extinction.
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Publication Items

Gloom And Doom? SEJ's Climate Is Anything But

'Horror Movie' Approach Reaches Wide TV Audience

Editors Focus New Attention On Climate Change, Environment

Bookshelf: The Clean Tech Revolution: The Next Big Growth And Investment Opportunity

Bookshelf: Exploration Of 'God's Reservoir' Informs and Delights

Undersea Reporting: Reporting Live From Inside Aquarius

Network News Going Green: America's TV Networks Racing To Cover Environmental Issues

Covering Coal Country: Overcoming The Obstacles To Reporting In Rural America

Reporter's Three Decades On The Beat Bring Awards, Honors

Regulating Trade Could Curtail Invasive Species

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