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DEADLINE: #SEJ2024 Philadelphia Conference Travel Diversity Fellowships [1]

SEJ and The Uproot Project are partnering to offer diversity fellowships (worth up to $2800) to support journalists' attendance at #SEJ2024 in Philadelphia, Apr 3-7. Apply by January 5!

Water-Sharing in the West: An Urgent and Complicated Environmental Story [2]

Water has always been a precious commodity in the western states. Now, with rapid population growth and a drying climate, the way this resource is shared and distributed is becoming more contentious across the region. Freelance journalist Jennifer Oldham talks about the tensions between supply and demand and how to drill down into water rights laws and policies.

On Flooded Island Of Homeless People, Climate Change Gets Real [3]

"The raft to Bannon Island does not inspire confidence. But Dyrone Woods climbed aboard the piece of crumbling Styrofoam secured to the remains of a wood pallet anyway."

Source: LA Times [4], 01/10/2023

Louisiana Coastal Plan Update Promises Billions In Hurricane-Damage Savings [5]

"A draft update of the state’s $50 billion coastal master plan predicts that 61 new projects to build or protect land, a dozen new levees, and new efforts to elevate, flood-proof or relocate flood-prone homes will reduce annual hurricane storm surge damages by at least $11 billion per year by 2073."

Source: New Orleans Times-Picayune [6], 01/10/2023

"Global Pollinator Losses Causing 500,000 Early Deaths A Year – Study" [7]

"The global loss of pollinators is already causing about 500,000 early deaths a year by reducing the supply of healthy foods, a study has estimated."

Source: Guardian [8], 01/10/2023

"U.S. Greenhouse Gas Emissions Rose 1.3% In 2022 - Rhodium" [9]

"Greenhouse gas emissions increased slightly from the previous year in 2022 by 1.3%, keeping the U.S. just 15.5% below 2005 levels and off track to meet its global pledge to slash emissions 50-52% by 2030, according to estimates published on Tuesday by research group Rhodium."

Source: Reuters [10], 01/10/2023

"The Last 8 Years Were the Hottest on Record" [11]

"The world remained firmly in warming’s grip last year, with extreme summer temperatures in Europe, China and elsewhere contributing to 2022 being the fifth-hottest year on record, European climate researchers said on Tuesday."

Source: NYTimes [12], 01/10/2023

DEADLINE: Edward R. Murrow Press Fellowship [13]

U.S. journalists or editors who cover international news can apply for the Council on Foreign Relations' fellowship. Spend ten months full time in residence at CFR's headquarters in New York, engaging in sustained analysis, writing and more. $100,000 stipend plus travel grant. Apply by Mar 1, 2025.

"India Expects Utilities' Annual Coal Demand To Surge About 8%" [14]

"India expects its power plants to burn about 8% more coal in the fiscal year ending March 2024, according to a senior government official and a power ministry presentation, after the country missed its 2022 renewable energy goal by more than 30%."

Source: Reuters [15], 01/10/2023

Low Salt Marsh Habitats Release More Carbon in Response to Warming: Study [16]

"Salt marshes, excellent reservoirs of carbon, are living ecosystems with vegetation and microscopic organisms that live, breathe, poop and die in the marsh mud."

Source: Inside Climate News [17], 01/10/2023

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