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July 21, 2025

DEADLINE: World Food Forum Youth Film Festival [1]

The World Food Forum's Global Youth Action Initiative invites fiction and non-fiction entries to this global short film competition. Filmmakers must be 18-39 years old. Winning films may be screened at the festival in Rome from Oct 13-17, 2025. Cash prizes. Enter by Jul 21.

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From Fear to Fascination — A New Insect Narrative [9]

Media coverage of “bugs” is often sensationalistic and centered on fear and disgust. But conservation photographer and writer Danae Wolfe says journalists should be highlighting the importance, beauty and plight of insects and spiders. Reporting that offers alternative perspectives on these essential creatures can inspire curiosity and admiration, and encourage efforts to protect them. Wolfe on why to write about insects.

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Why Now’s the Time To Tell a Good Fish Tale [22]

With fishing season underway across the United States, reporters have a line to an array of great, local environmental stories, whether about the recreation and tourism industries or overfishing and the health of regional ecosystems. The latest TipSheet has more than a dozen story ideas and reporting resources to help you reel in an angle of your own.

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"Is Another Locust Invasion Heading For Africa?" [27]

"The United Nations is warning countries in northwest Africa to boost monitoring and begin early control measures as swarms of desert locusts move into the region."

Agriculture [4]
Biodiversity [12]
Disasters [28]
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Natural Resources [25]
People & Population [29]
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Africa [30]
Middle East [31]
Source: Thomson Reuters Fdn. [32], 05/28/2025
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"Trump Orders Major Revamp Of Agencies’ Handling Of Scientific Research" [33]

"President Donald Trump on Friday ordered a sweeping overhaul of federal agencies’ handling of scientific research, coupled with a requirement to revisit all Biden-era regulations to ensure that they mesh with the new policy."

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Source: E&E News [36], 05/28/2025
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Advocates Applaud MAHA Report On Chemical Harms, But Say It Falls Short [37]

"Exposures to pesticides and other chemicals, ultra-processed foods and over-prescription of medications are among the factors contributing to an epidemic of chronic disease in America’s children, according to a government report issued Thursday by the Trump administration’s controversial “Make America Healthy Again” (MAHA) Commission.'

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Source: The New Lede [39], 05/28/2025
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In West Bank, Hope for Future in Link Between Land and People [40]

On a tour of the West Bank this spring, Yessenia Funes found a region where the relationship between land and people serves as a counterweight to occupation and the threat of violence. For her Voices of Environmental Justice column, Funes exhorts fellow environment journalists to report on that struggle, through stories that touch on wildlife, wildfire, food, climate and more.

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Chemical Exposure From Ultra-Processed Foods May Worsen Health Issues [46]

"Toxic synthetic chemicals that migrate into ultra-processed foods from packaging, processing equipment and other sources may explain why these foods are so bad for our health, according to a new review article."

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Source: The New Lede [47], 05/22/2025
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"EPA Defunds Research Into PFAS Contamination on Farms" [48]

"The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has canceled grant funding to university research teams studying how “forever chemicals” contaminate soil and groundwater, including at least $3 million for two projects specifically looking at contamination on farms."

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Source: Civil Eats [49], 05/22/2025
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"On ‘World Bee Day,’ The Bees Did Not Seem Bothered. They Should Be" [50]

"Bees and other pollinators have been on the decline for years, and experts blame a combination of factors: insecticides, parasites, disease, climate change and lack of a diverse food supply. A significant part of the human diet comes from plants pollinated by bees — not just honeybees, but hundreds of species of lesser-known wild bees, many of which are endangered."

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Source: AP [51], 05/21/2025
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