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The field of environmental journalism covers a wide variety of topics. According to The Reporter’s Environmental Handbook, environmental journalists perceive water concerns as the most important environmental issue, followed by atmospheric air pollution concerns, endocrine disruptors, and waste management issues. The journalists surveyed were more likely to prioritize specific, local environmental issues than global environmental concerns.
Environmental journalism can include, but is not limited to, some of the following topics:
From The Reporter’s Environmental Handbook:
- Air Pollution (Indoor)
- Air Pollution (Outdoor)
- Animal Waste Management
- Biodiversity
- Brownfields (“former industrial and commercial sites” (104))
- Cancer and Other Disease Cluster Claims
- Chemical Emergencies
- Chemical weapons (Disarmament)
- Children's health (Asthma)
- Children's health (Lead)
- Cross-Border Environmental Issues (U.S.-Mexico)
- Dioxin
- Disposal of Dredged Materials
- Endocrine Disruptors (“also called a hormonally active agent, is a chemical that interferes with the functioning of the endocrine system” (172))
- Environmental Justice and Hazardous Waste
- Food irradiation
- Genetically Modified Crops
- Global warming and climate change
- Groundwater Pollution
- Naturally Occurring and Technology-Based Disasters
- Occupational Health
- Ozone Depletion
- Pesticides
- Pollution Prevention/Source Reduction
- Population growth
- Sprawl and Environmental Health
- Surface Water Quality
- Water Supply
From EnviroLink:
- Agriculture
- Air quality
- Climate Change
- Ecosystems
- Energy
- Environmental Disasters
- Environmental Economics
- Environmental Education
- Environmental Ethics
- Environmental Legislation and Environmental Policy
- Forests
- Ground pollution
- Habitat conservation
- Natural History
- Outdoor Recreation
- Population
- Sciences
- Social Sciences and Humanities
- Sustainable Development
- Sustainable Living
- Transportation
- Urban Issues
- Vegetarianism
- Waste Management
- Water Quality
- Wildlife
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