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The International Center for Journalists invites applications by Aug 10, 2025 from non-US mid-career journalists for this program comprising four online courses in a final project. Suitable for data journalists looking to advance, as well as for journalists seeking to sharpen their investigative skills.
The Center for Cooperative Media offers 10 awards up to $15,000 each for short-term civic science media projects in the U.S. that can bridge the gap between scientists, media and communities. Includes hands-on coaching. Deadline: Aug 31, 2025.
The Global Heat Health Information Network, in partnership with Internews’ Earth Journalism Network, is launching a global photography competition to showcase the real impacts of extreme heat, and the ways communities around the world are responding to it. Deadline: Aug 29, 2025.
"Some dolphins in Australia have a special technique to flush fish from the seafloor. They hunt with a sponge on their beak, like a clown nose."
"If you were a miner in California during the Gold Rush, you might have dined on a California red-legged frog."
"In the nation’s leading pork-producing state, animal waste fuels crop growth but impairs water quality in a leaky circular system."
"Wynn Radford IV, chief of staff for the Environmental Protection Agency Region 6, previously worked as a spokesperson for the multinational oil company BP following the Deepwater Horizon disaster."
"Extreme weather has stoked food prices around the world in recent years and could lead to more political instability and inflation, with the world’s poor bearing most of the economic pain and health impacts, according to new research."
"Companies feared rules and lawsuits based on the Office of Research and Development’s assessments of the dangers of formaldehyde, ethylene oxide and other substances."
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[5] https://www.sej.org/calendar/deadline-ghhinejn-extreme-heat-photo-contest
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[14] https://www.sej.org/headlines/weather-extremes-caused-climate-change-are-driving-food-prices-report
[15] https://insideclimatenews.org/news/21072025/weather-extremes-driving-up-food-prices/
[16] https://www.sej.org/headlines/dismantling-epa-s-scientific-arm-fulfills-key-chemical-industry-goal
[17] https://insideclimatenews.org/news/21072025/trump-administration-dismantles-epa-office-of-research-and-development/
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