SELC's Magazine
SELC’s magazine celebrates our region, its extraordinary natural places and communities, and the inspiring work SELC staff and partners are doing to protect this place we call home. The magazine publishes twice per year.
Current Issue – 07 – Spring/Summer 2026
This issue travels from coastal Virginia to the western North Carolina mountains and into the Okefenokee Swamp, weaving together stories of history, recovery, and environmental stewardship.
Read the MagazineWant to receive SELC’s magazine? Sign up below.
Issue – 06 – Fall 2025/Winter 2026
Better understand the ties between today’s polluted places and yesterday’s plantations, explore the caves of the Cumberland Plateau, and hear what one rural community learned in their fight against a proposed project with a massive data center and gas power plant.
Read the magazineIssue – 05 – Spring/Summer 2025
Hear firsthand about the impacts, and rebuilding, after Helene, explore from the headwaters of the Conasauga River to the Gulf, and learn about the power of shade.
Read the magazineIssue – 04 – Fall 2024/Winter 2025
Meet five Southerners using their talents to protect our wetlands, along with Richmonders showing the power of free buses and rural residents coming together to fight pollution and build the future they want to see.
Read the magazineIssue 03 – Spring/Summer 2024
Renowned author and cultural ornithologist J. Drew Lanham explores the ties between horseshoe crabs, the red knot migration and us. Also visit frontline communities across the South through photographer Julie Dermansky’s lens and learn about saving Georgia sea turtles.
Read the magazineIssue 02 – Fall 2023/Winter 2024
In Issue 2, we tell the story of building a national model for fighting forever chemicals and transport you to the forests of western North Carolina, home to the oldest trees east of the Mississippi River.
Read the magazineIssue 01 – Spring/Summer 2023
In this issue, we’ll expose the climate lie bolstering the biomass industry’s expansion efforts and take readers to explore the unparalleled biodiversity of Alabama’s Mobile-Tensaw Delta. We’ll also introduce the new leader of our Climate Change Initiative, Alys Campaigne.
Read the magazine