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The Society of Environmental Journalists is pleased to announce the Outstanding Explanatory Reporting, Small winners of the 2023 SEJ Awards for Reporting on the Environment. Read the stories and hear from the first-place winner.

Sheepherders face wage theft, isolation, hunger and alleged abuse.

Liza Gross is a reporter for Inside Climate News based in Northern California. She is the author of The Science Writers’ Investigative Reporting Handbook and a contributor to The Science Writers’ Handbook, both funded by National Association of Science Writers’ Peggy Girshman Idea Grants. She has long covered science, conservation, agriculture, public and environmental health

Despite generating tens of billions in revenue annually, Tyson has been laying off workers around the country.

It remains the most useful social media platform during a climate crisis. But its days seem numbered.

The Biden administration continued a bipartisan, decades-long effort to ensure that health insurance treats mental illnesses the same as other ailments, with a new set of regulations aimed at ensuring that services are actually available without years-long waits or excessive out-of-pocket costs.

President Joe Biden is kicking off his reelection campaign in part by trying to finish a decades-long effort to establish parity in insurance benefits between mental and physical health. Meanwhile, House Republicans are working to add abortion and other contentious amendments to must-pass spending bills. Joanne Kenen of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and Politico, Anna Edney of Bloomberg, and Sarah Karlin-Smith of the Pink Sheet join KFF Health News’ chief Washington corre...

A conservation group is calling on Oregon to do more to protect whales from fishing gear. Ben Enticknap, Pacific campaign manager and senior scientist for the nonprofit Oceana, said Dungeness crab pots off the coast of Oregon entangle whales. There were 333 confirmed whale entanglements off the west coast between 2012 and 2022, according to federal numbers. ...

If you layer climate-related disruptions — such as rising sea levels and shrinking populations of fish and game — on top of economic troubles, it just increases the pressure to migrate. 

Billions of snow crab have vanished. St. Paul Island, a remote Alaskan village, and its Indigenous population need them for survival.