The Water Desk invites applications for an expenses-paid, in-person training and workshop for journalists interested in covering the Rio Grande watershed to be held in El Paso, Texas, March 25-27, 2026. Deadline: Jan 12.
"The watershed summit in 2015 was far from perfect, but its impact so far has been significant and measurable"
"The U.S. Energy Secretary said allowing tribes to weigh in on energy projects on their land creates "unnecessary burdens to the development of critical infrastructure.""
"Sometime next year, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) will announce new limits on how much funding grantees can spend on publication fees to make their articles open access, or free to read."
"The EU on Tuesday walked back a 2035 ban on new petrol and diesel cars seen as a milestone in the fight against climate change, as the bloc pivots to bolstering its crisis-hit auto sector."
"Iraq’s famed Tigris is heavily polluted and at risk of drying up. Unless urgent action is taken to save the river, life will be fundamentally altered for the ancient communities who live on its banks."
"A coalition of states sued the Trump administration Tuesday for blocking the full release of $2.5 billion in federal funding for electric car infrastructure, alleging the decision to stop disbursing funds is unlawful."
"Hundreds of Arctic rivers and streams are turning bright red-orange, not from chemical pollution, but from naturally occurring iron spilling from long-frozen ground as temperatures warm."
"Flood, storm and fire survivors gathered in Washington, D.C., Monday to express their alarm over a leaked report from the FEMA Review Council that proposes halving the agency’s workforce and scaling back federal disaster assistance."
"Low snowpack, leftover burn scars, and abnormally warm temperatures are supercharging the atmospheric rivers hitting the Pacific Northwest."
Links
[1] https://www.sej.org/calendar/deadline-rio-grande-basin-journalist-training-workshop
[2] https://www.sej.org/headlines/where-global-emissions-stand-10-years-after-paris-climate-agreement
[3] https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/dec/13/a-shift-no-country-can-ignore-where-global-emissions-stand-10-years-after-the-paris-climate-agreement
[4] https://www.sej.org/headlines/navajo-said-no-hydro-project-trump-doe-doesnt-want-it-happen-again
[5] https://grist.org/indigenous/the-navajo-nation-said-no-to-a-hydropower-project-trump-officials-want-to-ensure-tribes-cant-do-that-again/
[6] https://www.sej.org/headlines/proposed-nih-caps-open-access-publishing-fees-roil-scientific-community
[7] https://www.science.org/content/article/nih-s-proposed-caps-open-access-publishing-fees-roil-scientific-community
[8] https://www.sej.org/headlines/eu-scraps-2035-ban-new-petrol-and-diesel-cars-boost-auto-industry
[9] https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20251216-eu-set-to-scrap-2035-combustion-engine-ban-in-car-industry-boost
[10] https://www.sej.org/headlines/no-water-no-life-iraq-s-tigris-river-danger-disappearing
[11] https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/dec/16/no-water-no-life-iraqs-tigris-river-in-danger-of-disappearing
[12] https://www.sej.org/headlines/states-sue-trump-administration-over-frozen-ev-charger-funds
[13] https://news.bloomberglaw.com/environment-and-energy/states-sue-trump-administration-to-restore-billions-in-ev-funds
[14] https://www.sej.org/headlines/orange-rivers-melting-glaciers-federal-report-shows-rapid-change-arctic
[15] https://www.npr.org/2025/12/16/nx-s1-5639224/arctic-climate-change-noaa-report
[16] https://www.sej.org/headlines/disaster-survivors-denounce-proposed-fema-downsizing
[17] https://insideclimatenews.org/news/15122025/disaster-survivors-denounce-fema-downsizing/
[18] https://www.sej.org/headlines/climate-change-primed-washington-state-historic-flooding
[19] https://grist.org/extreme-weather/climate-change-primed-washington-state-for-historic-flooding/
[20] https://www.sej.org/search_results
[21] https://www.sej.org/search_results?page=4
[22] https://www.sej.org/search_results?page=1
[23] https://www.sej.org/search_results?page=2
[24] https://www.sej.org/search_results?page=3
[25] https://www.sej.org/search_results?page=6
[26] https://www.sej.org/search_results?page=7
[27] https://www.sej.org/search_results?page=8
[28] https://www.sej.org/search_results?page=9
[29] https://www.sej.org/search_results?page=4888