Media professionals, age 21-40, from the U.S., Canada and Germany are invited to apply for an opportunity to report from and travel in each other's countries. Share professional expertise with your colleagues across the Atlantic while working as a "foreign correspondent" for your hometown news organization. Deadline: Mar 1, 2025.
"The largest ape to roam Earth died out 100,000 years ago because it failed to tuck into savannah grass after climate change hit its preferred diet of forest fruit, scientists suggest."
"As technology advances, many industries are being disrupted by increased automation. But when it comes to managing and protecting the water supply, there are many tasks that still require a combination of people and technology."
"A survey of economists with climate expertise finds a consensus that climate change is expensive and carbon pollution cuts are needed".
"Rising global temperatures may be affecting the Greenland ice sheet — and its contribution to sea-level rise — in more serious ways that scientists imagined, a new study finds."
FIRE helps independent journalists by providing two services: a complimentary Editorial Consultancy and a Virtual Newsroom. Services and grants of up to $10,000 are available to assist freelance reporters working on investigative stories.
"Environmentalists say that leasing public land for fossil fuel production is one of the Obama administration's biggest carbon-polluting programs."
"LYON, France – Illegal wildlife poaching and trafficking are still going on across Africa, but there are 376 fewer criminals in the trade after an international police operation last year."
"The U.S. Justice Department has sued Volkswagen for up to $90 billion for allegedly violating environmental laws - five times regulators' initial estimate and a reminder of the carmaker's problems nearly four months after its emissions scandal broke."
"Oil prices quickly gave back early gains to close lower on Monday after investor concerns about Middle East tensions gave way to a continued focus on weaknesses in global economies."
Links
[1] https://www.sej.org/calendar/deadline-arthur-f-burns-fellowship
[2] https://www.sej.org/headlines/why-real-king-kong-became-extinct
[3] http://www.terradaily.com/reports/Why_the_real_King_Kong_became_extinct_999.html
[4] https://www.sej.org/headlines/technology-marches-reservoir-caretakers-stay-their-posts
[5] http://www.npr.org/2016/01/05/461847059/as-technology-marches-on-reservoir-caretakers-stay-at-their-posts
[6] https://www.sej.org/headlines/95-consensus-expert-economists-cut-carbon-pollution
[7] http://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2016/jan/04/consensus-of-economists-cut-carbon-pollution
[8] https://www.sej.org/headlines/new-science-greenland-melt-could-be-making-sea-level-rise-even-worse
[9] https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2016/01/04/what-scientists-discovered-in-greenland-could-be-making-sea-level-rise-even-worse/
[10] https://www.sej.org/library/freelance-investigative-reporters-and-editors-fire
[11] https://www.sej.org/headlines/2016-when-climate-activists-aim-halt-federal-coal-leases
[12] http://insideclimatenews.org/news/23122015/coal-natural-gas-oil-leasing-public-land-obama-administration-department-interior-environmentalists-climate-change
[13] https://www.sej.org/headlines/interpol-busts-hundreds-ivory-rhino-horn-crimes
[14] http://ens-newswire.com/2016/01/03/interpol-busts-hundreds-for-ivory-rhino-horn-crimes/
[15] https://www.sej.org/headlines/volkswagen-faces-billions-fines-us-sues-violations
[16] http://www.reuters.com/article/us-volkswagen-usa-idUSKBN0UI1QP20160105
[17] https://www.sej.org/headlines/oil-market-settles-lower-taking-iran-saudi-dispute-stride
[18] http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/05/business/energy-environment/oil-saudi-arabia-iran.html?ref=energy-environment&_r=0
[19] https://www.sej.org/search_results
[20] https://www.sej.org/search_results?page=2953
[21] https://www.sej.org/search_results?page=2950
[22] https://www.sej.org/search_results?page=2951
[23] https://www.sej.org/search_results?page=2952
[24] https://www.sej.org/search_results?page=2955
[25] https://www.sej.org/search_results?page=2956
[26] https://www.sej.org/search_results?page=2957
[27] https://www.sej.org/search_results?page=2958
[28] https://www.sej.org/search_results?page=5015