Trellis is a business-to-business media company that focuses on corporate sustainability practice and strategy, covering topics related to the environment, sustainability, climate, business management, and careers. Their target audience is senior leaders in large corporations. They seek contributors with expertise and practical on-the-ground knowledge about sustainability work across sectors and companies. According to a hidden tweet by their editorial director, they pay $200 to $500 per piece. To learn more, refer to this page.

The Earth Island Journal is a quarterly magazine that discusses the environment and how it relates to present-day issues, including climate change, environmental justice, and wildlife and land conservation. They are particularly interested in stories that explore the intersections between the environment and other social and human rights issues. According to their guidelines, pay is $0.50/word for print features up to 4,000 words, though 2,800 words is most common, and $400 for stories published online. To learn more, refer to their submission guidelines.

The Revelator is “an online news and ideas initiative of the Center for Biological Diversity.” They cover climate change, endangered species, wildlife, conservation, pollution, and more. They take submissions for limited categories. They have previously indicated to pay $300 to $500 per article. To learn more, refer to their submission guidelines.

Grist is a non-profit online publication that covers climate and sustainability. They welcome “a wide range of freelance pitches, from reported essays to in-depth investigations to changemaker profiles and Q&As.” Their “core topics include clean energy, sustainable food, environmental justice, livable communities, and reinventing the economy through cutting-edge science and cleantech.” Articles range between ​800 to 2,000 words. According to their guidelines, pay starts at $0.80 per word. Details here.

It's Freezing in LA! (IFLA!) is an independent magazine about climate justice, art and science. They are looking for pitches for articles about environmental issues. They publish essays, reviews, graphic novels, interviews and more. According to their guidelines, they typically pay £130 for print articles that are around 1,000 words in length. For details, refer to this page.

Nexus Media News is a nonprofit news service dedicated to climate change. They are always seeking pieces on how communities across the United States are responding to the climate crisis. They are especially interested in solutions-oriented stories centering on frontline and BIPOC communities. According to their guidelines, rates start at $500 for reported features (1,000 to 1,200 words) and short profiles. For details, refer to their pitch guide.

Climate Home News covers global climate politics. They accept news stories that have a climate change angle as well as an international outlook. Topics of interest include “climate finance, major energy projects, land use conflicts, loss and damage attributable to climate change, greenwash, climate diplomacy and geopolitics.” The standard word count for news is 600 words, and for comment pieces, 800. According to their guidelines, rates begin at £0.35/word. For more information, refer to this page.

Acres USA is a magazine written by people deeply invested in ‘principles of sustainable and organic agriculture.’ They welcome submissions about ‘farmers, ranchers and market gardeners who have found ways to survive and thrive in an agribusiness climate that favours vertical integration and the demise of individual thinkers.’  Feature length is expected to be 1,000-2,500 words. Payment rates are not mentioned, but according to a payment report, they paid $300 for 1000-words. To learn more, refer to their submission guidelines.

Atmos is a nonprofit media organization focused on the cross-pollination of climate and culture, delivering award-winning journalism and creative storytelling through a biannual print magazine, daily digital features, original newsletters, and more. They seek compelling, thought-provoking content that explores the intersection of climate and culture. They have previously indicated the standard digital rate for writers to be $.50/word. To learn more, refer to their editorial guidelines and website.

The Women's Media Center is a nonprofit organization that is working to make women and girls more visible and powerful in the media. They publish articles written by a diverse group of journalists on their website every week. They look for stories on a wide range of topics including feminism, violence, online harassment, freedom of expression, digital security, and climate change. They also look for stories written by Latinx women. The article length should be between 600 and 1500 words. According to an old tweet, they pay $200 per story. To learn more, refer to their pitch guidelines.

The Lever is a nonpartisan, reader-supported investigative news outlet that holds accountable the people and corporations manipulating the levers of power. They welcome freelance pitches, and are looking for in-depth investigative reporting on matters related to local and national politics, business and political corruption, consumer and worker protections, climate change, and health care. Pay rates are not mentioned. To learn more, refer to this page.

National Wildlife is a magazine published by the National Wildlife Federation, the largest private conservation group in the United States. It is quarterly, has an average circulation per issue of more than 300,000 and focuses on storytelling related to wildlife and habitat conservation, environmental justice, climate change, and more. They are looking for features from 1,000 to 2,000 words and departments (short pieces) from 350 to 900 words. According to their pitch guide, they pay $1.50 a word for print. For web, pay is negotiated per article and typically starts at $250. To learn more, refer to this page.

Long Now is a non-profit organization that fosters long-term thinking. Their pitch guide says, “Our work encourages imagination at the timescale of civilization — the next and last 10,000 years — a timespan we call the long now.” They want stories that explore the ‘long now’ of climate change, the rise and fall of civilizations, biotechnology and artificial intelligence, economics, architecture, and more. They accept pitches for essays (1,200 - 3,000 words), reported features (1,200 to 3,000 words), interviews (2,000 to 3,000 words), book reviews, shorter articles, fiction, and poems for Ideas, their living archive of long-term thinking. According to their pitch guide, rates begin at $600 for features and essays and range between $300 and $600 for interviews, reviews, science journalism, and news articles. They pay $100 for science fiction stories and $25 for poems.

The Lead is a micro-mag about politics and culture. They cover “the sharp angles that define our life in the UK today: poverty, racism, climate change, corporate and government malfeasance, the breakdown of our healthcare system and the fracturing of the state.” According to their pitch guide, op-eds start at £200 for 800-1200 words, features are paid from £400 for around 1500 words, and fees for investigations and long reads are negotiated individually. To learn more, refer to this page.

Vox is a general interest website that covers public policy, politics, world affairs, climate, culture, technology, science, health, and business. They accept pitches in a variety of categories, including money, technology, culture, and climate. According to a pitch guide document posted by their deputy editor, rates are $0.50 to $1.00 a word or more for their Future Perfect section. They also accept pitches for their climate section. To learn more, refer to this page.