UC Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism annually offers multiple $10,000 postgraduate Food and Farming Journalism Fellowships. A project of the Knight Center in Science and Environmental Journalism, is supported by a grant from The 11th Hour Project. Early and mid-career journalists: Apply by Mar 15 for the 2022 fellowship.
The American Society of Journalists and Authors annually recognizes distinguished achievements in articles and books with a series of awards. Some categories are for the public, some for ASJA members only. Cash prizes; entry fees apply. Deadline: May 16, 2025.
Following on the heels of a similar event in DC on Nov 18th, the U.S. Forest Service has arranged a second "open house" Thursday, Nov. 20 about its proposed directive on commercial filming and photography in federal wilderness areas that it manages. The session will be held at Oregon Public Broadcasting in Portland, OR, 5:00-7:00 p.m.
"SYDNEY - More than 400 protesters stuck their heads in the sand on Australia's Bondi Beach on Thursday, mocking the government's reluctance to put climate change on the agenda of a G20 summit this weekend."
"Illicit fishing goes on every day at an industrial scale. But large commercial fishers are about to get a new set of overseers: conservationists — and soon the general public—armed with space-based reconnaissance of the global fleet."
"The controversial government program that funded failed solar company Solyndra, and became a lighting rod in the 2012 presidential election, is officially in the black."
"Halliburton Co. is in talks to buy Baker Hughes Inc. in a deal that would combine two of the largest and oldest names in the energy business as plunging oil prices send the industry into a downturn."
"ANCHORAGE -- Six environmental groups sued Monday to throw out a federal agency rule that concludes oil exploration off Alaska’s northwest coast has a negligible effect on walrus."
"The U.S. State Department must halt plans to expand an oil sands pipeline route from Canada to Wisconsin until possible environmental harm has been closely studied, several green groups said in a lawsuit filed on Wednesday."
"Lightning strikes in the United States will likely increase by nearly 50 percent by the end of the century as the world gets warmer and wetter, a new study says."
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[1] https://www.sej.org/calendar/deadline-uc-berkeley-11th-hour-food-and-farming-journalism-fellowship
[2] https://www.sej.org/calendar/deadline-asja-annual-writing-award
[3] https://www.sej.org/calendar/usfs-discussion-forum-proposed-filmingphotography-directive
[4] https://www.sej.org/headlines/australians-stick-heads-sand-mock-prime-minister-abbotts-climate-stance
[5] http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/11/13/australians-stick-heads-sand_n_6150606.html?utm_hp_ref=mostpopular
[6] https://www.sej.org/headlines/plan-map-illegal-fishing-space
[7] http://www.wired.com/2014/11/plan-map-illegal-fishing-space/
[8] https://www.sej.org/headlines/us-department-energy-loan-program-breaks-even
[9] http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/11/13/us-department-of-energy-loan-program_n_6149690.html?utm_hp_ref=green
[10] https://www.sej.org/headlines/halliburton-baker-hughes-consider-merger
[11] http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-11-13/halliburton-said-to-be-in-talks-to-acquire-baker-hughes.html
[12] https://www.sej.org/headlines/groups-sue-protect-walrus-drilling
[13] http://www.sltrib.com/home/1811055-155/walrus-grafe-groups-sea-agency-drilling
[14] https://www.sej.org/headlines/green-groups-sue-fresh-review-us-sands-pipeline-plan
[15] http://planetark.org/enviro-news/item/72475
[16] https://www.sej.org/headlines/lightning-will-strike-more-often-climate-warms-study-says
[17] http://www.pressherald.com/2014/11/13/lightning-expected-to-increase-by-50-percent-this-century/
[18] https://www.sej.org/search_results
[19] https://www.sej.org/search_results?page=3229
[20] https://www.sej.org/search_results?page=3226
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[22] https://www.sej.org/search_results?page=3228
[23] https://www.sej.org/search_results?page=3231
[24] https://www.sej.org/search_results?page=3232
[25] https://www.sej.org/search_results?page=3233
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[27] https://www.sej.org/search_results?page=4972