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DEADLINE: BigPicture Natural World Photography Competition [9]

Photographers worldwide can contribute their work that celebrates and illustrates the rich diversity of life on Earth and inspires action to protect and conserve it through the power of imagery. Cash prizes in seven categories. Entry fees apply. Deadline: Mar 1, 2026.

DEADLINE: Waldo Proffitt Award for Excellence in Environmental Journalism in Florida [10]

The Zimmerman School of Advertising & Mass Communications at the University of South Florida annually recognizes distinguished examples of reporting and commentary about environmental issues in Florida with a $1,000 award. Deadline: Aug 15, 2025.

How to Protect Yourself Online: Digital Safety Tools & Strategies Against Abuse [11]

Join Future Tense, PEN America and the Freedom of the Press Foundation in Washington, DC, 6:00-8:00 p.m. ET, for drinks and a hands-on cybersecurity self-defense session. Get practical tools and strategies to both prepare for and respond to online harassment. This event is free and open to the public. Can't be there in person? Watch the livestream.

"Oil Industry Tool to Spare Polar Bears Is More Miss Than Hit" [12]

"A new study casts doubt on the effectiveness of what is considered a state-of-the-art tool to help industry avoid injuring or disturbing polar bears by detecting their dens in the snow. Over more than a decade on the North Slope of Alaska, the study found, oil companies located fewer than half of the known dens of maternal bears and their infant cubs using airborne instruments called forward-looking infrared, or FLIR, cameras."

Source: NY Times [13], 02/28/2020

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