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Society of Environmental Journalists’ president Luke Runyon (pictured, left) looks forward to the upcoming SEJ conference in Boise and announces the SEJ Future Council — a new fundraising initiative aimed at providing financial support for the organization’s efforts to increase and improve environmental journalism.

Register now for SEJ's 2023 Annual Conference, April 19-23, in Boise, Idaho, hosted by Boise State University.

Meet SEJ member Spoorthy Raman! Spoorthy is a science and environment journalist based in Canada with over six years of science writing and two years of journalism experience. She helped start a multilingual science news portal in India called Research Matters, where she was the Managing Editor between 2016 and 2020. Later, Spoorthy started her career as an independent science

Environmental journalists from around the country and beyond will gather in Houston later this month for the Society of Environmental Journalists’ 31st annual conference. Widely known as the energy capital of the world, this highly diverse city is an ideal place to drill down on the causes and consequences of climate change and other environmental issues of the day.

Register now for SEJ's 2020 Virtual Conference (#SEJ2020), September 16, 17, 23 and 30. We'll convene the SEJ community to investigate environmental angles on the 2020 elections and other timely events, celebrate the winners of the SEJ Awards for Reporting on the Environment, and preview workshops, tours and panels for our in-person conference in Boise to June 2-6, 2021 (#SEJ2021).

Register now for SEJ's 2020 Virtual Conference (#SEJ2020), September 16, 17, 23 and 30. We'll convene the SEJ community to investigate environmental angles on the 2020 elections and other timely events, celebrate the winners of the SEJ Awards for Reporting on the Environment, and preview workshops, tours and panels for our in-person conference in Boise to June 2-6, 2021 (#SEJ2021).

Intersectional Environmentalism Is the Urgent Way Forward Leah Thomas, founder of the Intersectional Environmentalist platform, on how BIPOC voices in the sustainability movement have been silenced—but lifting up those voices is the only way to protect people and the planet. By Leah Thomas Getty/ Morgan McMullen In 2017, I was the only Black person in my graduating class to receive an environmental science degree. At times, I felt the pressure to silence parts of my racial identity. ...

The urgency of the Black climate agenda Vox.com 7 hrs ago Jariel Arvin © Steve Sanchez/Pacific Press/LightRocket via Getty Images The Rise and Resist activist group marches to demand climate and racial justice in New York, NY, on September 20, 2020. For a long time, the face of the climate movement was a white one. But with growing public awareness of climate change came the recognition that its impacts are disproportionately experienced by Black, Indigenous, and other comm...

Steve Sanchez/Pacific Press/LightRocket via Getty Images For a long time, the face of the climate movement was white. But with growing public awareness of climate change came the recognition that its impacts are disproportionately experienced by Black, Indigenous, and other communities of color. The problem, according to many Black climate advocates, is that awareness is not enough. Tamara Toles O’Laughlin is one of the best-known advocates for what she calls the “Black climate agenda”: ...