Guides: STIA 396: Environmental Writing for the Public: News & Current Events

Major News Aggregators

Nexis Uni This link opens in a new window
Nexis Uni (formerly LexisNexis Academic) provides access to more than 17,000 news, business and legal sources from LexisNexis. Nexi Uni has three primary collections: 1) full-text access to thousands of news sources in the U.S. and abroad back to the 1970s; 2) aggregated economic data on businesses, corporations, and industries in the U.S. and abroad; 3) full-text legal documents, including U.S. Federal and State court cases, and law reviews from the late 18th century to present.
Factiva This link opens in a new window
Limited to 5 concurrent users.
Provides worldwide full-text coverage of local and regional newspapers, trade publications, business newswires, media transcripts, news photos, business-rich websites, investment analyst reports, market research reports, country and regional profiles, company profiles, and historical market data.
ProQuest News & Newspapers This link opens in a new window
Searches all ProQuest newspaper databases: Alt-PressWatch, Ethnic NewsWatch, GenderWatch, Latin American Newsstand, ProQuest Civil War Era, ProQuest Historical Newspapers, ProQuest Newsstand, and The Wall Street Journal.
NewsBank This link opens in a new window
Includes Access World News, America's Historical Imprints, Electronic Image Editions, and Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS) Daily Reports and Index.

Google News
Aggregated headlines and a search engine of many of the world's news sources. Advanced search allows you to limit sources by date, source or location. Use the Archive Search for older stories. Note: Most of the older material is not free.

New York Times: Climate and Environment
News about environmental topics, including commentary and archival articles published in The New York Times
The Guardian: Environment
Follow The Guardian's coverage of topics such as climate change, energy, wildlife, pollution, and more.
Nature News
News and commentary from Nature, an international science publication.
NASA Climate News
A feed of press releases for news and features from NASA on climate topics.
Yale Environment 360
Published at the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies, Yale E360 is an online magazine offering opinion, analysis, reporting, and debate on global environmental issues. It features original articles by scientists, journalists, environmentalists, academics, policy makers, and business people, as well as multimedia content and a daily digest of major environmental news.
Mongabay
This resources is a non-profit provider of conservation and environmental science news.
Grist Magazine
A non-profit online magazine offering reporting, interviews, opinion pieces, daily news, book reviews, food and agricultural coverage, and green advice. Its stated mission is "to inform, entertain, provoke, and encourage its readers to think creatively about environmental problems and solutions."

WHO Disease Outbreak News
World Health Organization updates on outbreaks of infectious diseases.
HealthMap
This online international map delivers real-time intelligence on a broad range of emerging infectious diseases for a diverse audience including libraries, local health departments, governments, and international travelers. HealthMap brings together disparate data sources, including online news aggregators, eyewitness reports, expert-curated discussions and validated official reports, to achieve a unified and comprehensive view of the current global state of infectious diseases and their effect on human and animal health.
NIH Newsletter
The current public monthly newsletter from the National Institutes of Health.