Interesting links
Interesting links for environmental journalists

• A Land on Fire, the Environmental Consequences of the Southeast Asian Boom, by EJN Executive Director James Fahn
  An investigative journalist discovers that Southeast Asia's fight to protect its environment is inextricably intertwined with its difficult struggles for democracy and economic modernization.
   
• Assignment Earth Video
  Former CNN correspondent Gary Strieker has struck out on his own and formed the non-profit Environment News Trust. Strieker draws upon his decades of experience to script, shoot, edit and produce a series of 2-4 minute video stories on environmental issues that can be viewed on Yahoo.
   
• Center for Environmental Journalism
  The CEJ was established in 1992 by the School of Journalism and Mass Communication (SJMC) at the University of Colorado at Boulder to enrich public understanding of environmental issues by elevating the quality, range and depth of coverage by journalists.
   
• China Dialogue
  CHINA AND THE WORLD DISCUSS THE ENVIRONMENT 
   
• Climate Change Media Partnership
  Internews, Panos and IIED have joined forces to support developing world journalism and perspectives from the heart of the international climate negotiations. 
   
• Colectivo de Investigacion Desarrollo y Educacion entre Mujeres (CIDEM)
  CIDEM was founded by eight Mexican female leaders who decided to unite their capacities and experience in a set of projects, proposals and actions, aimed at improving the quality of life for women.
   
• Environment News Trust
  Former CNN correspondent Gary Strieker has struck out on his own and formed the non-profit Environment News Trust, which is dedicated to producing video news reports on environmental issues. 
   
• Environment Writer
  The Environment Writer website offers many resources on environment and natural resource issues for journalists, schools of journalism, and others. Ethiopian Environmental Journalists Association (EEJA) - Contact Argaw Ashine, Chairman, P.O. Box 17684, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
   
• International Federation of Environmental Journalists
  The mission of IFEJ is to improve public understanding of environment and sustainable development issues worldwide by supporting environmental journalists internationally through networking, training and promoting free access to information.
   
• Knight Center for Environmental Journalism
  The Knight Center for Environmental Journalism at Michigan State University's School of Journalism trains student and professional journalists to cover the environment.
   
• Mexican Network of Environmental Journalists (REMPA)
  The objective of this page is to offer a reference site for journalists who cover environmental issues in Mexico. PA-online is also designed to help environmental journalists abroad interested on Mexican environmental issues. 
   
• Network of Climate Journalists in the Greater Horn of Africa (NECJOGHA)
  NECJOGHA seeks to enhance interaction between climate scientists and journalists in the Greater Horn of Africa. 
   
• Society of Environmental Journalists
  The mission of the Society of Environmental Journalists is to strengthen the quality, reach and viability of journalism across all media to advance public understanding of environmental issues
   
• The Biodiversity Media Alliance
  The Biodiversity Media Alliance aims to boost the quantity and quality of media coverage of biodiversity issues.  
   
• Third Pole Project
  A collaboration with China Dialogue that supports coverage of climate change and related issues in the Himalayan and downstream countries 
   
• Vietnam Forum of Environmental Journalists
  Vietnam Forum for Environmental Journalism (VFEJ) is a forum where environmental journalists, scientists, and officials exchange information, expertise and experiences to increase awareness and knowledge on environment and natural resources issues and to help journalists response effectively to environment related information/events.
   

Climate Change
Here are some of the useful climate change links.

• Climate Change Network
  An online network of climate experts and journalists. 
   
• Climate-L
  A knowledgebase for the UN and intergovernmental activities addressing climate activities. 
   
• European Environment Agency Climate Change Page
  The European Environment Agency (EEA) is an agency of the European Union. Our task is to provide sound, independent information on the environment. We are a major information source for those involved in developing, adopting, implementing and evaluating environmental policy, and also the general public. Currently, the EEA has 32 member countries. 
   
• The Guardian page on climate change
  Latest news, comment and analysis on climate change and global warming from the Guardian, the world's leading liberal voice.
   
• The Intergovernmental Panel of Climate Change
  The Intergovernmental Panel of Climate Change is the leading body for the assessment of climate change, established by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) to provide the world with a clear scientific view on the current state of climate change and its potential environmental and socio-economic consequences. 
   
• U.S. EPA Climate Change
  EPA's Climate Change Site offers comprehensive information on the issue of climate change in a way that is accessible and meaningful to all parts of society – communities, individuals, business, states and localities, and governments. 
   
• United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
  The UNFCCC secretariat supports all institutions involved in the climate change process, particularly the COP, the subsidiary bodies and their Bureau.  
   
• US NOAA climate service
  This is a must visit resource site for climate sciences 
   
• World Meteorological Organization
  Weather forecasts and warnings with official observations and official warnings.The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) is a specialized agency of the United Nations. It is the UN system's authoritative voice on the state and behaviour of the Earth's atmosphere, its interaction with the oceans, the climate it produces and the resulting distribution of water resources. 
   

Online courses
Intended for journalists from all countries and beats, regardless of medium.

• Covering Climate Change
  Once a novelty, the climate change story is now as big as the world, and as local as your back yard. As the story itself has been expanding, so has the journalistic coverage. Today, it is no longer owned by journalists on science and environmental beats. In addition to government and political beats, global warming can be found in beats ranging from international affairs (think climate treaties), to technology (think solar panels), to business (think green industries) and even to the simple general assignment beat (think forest fires, and deaths and illness from heat waves).