This multimedia resource is for journalists interested in covering community-led climate solutions. It features the stories of grassroots organizations that are working at the intersection of climate justice and other social challenges.
This annual program aims to improve science journalism and science itself by providing four $5,000 reporting grants for feature-length magazine articles on the funding and practice of science in the US. Deadline: Nov 15, 2024.
Applicants must be a Canadian citizen, member of an Indigenous community and registered in a media program. The scholarship covers the cost of tuition, up to $10,000 per year for a maximum of 4 years. Apply by Nov 30, 2024.
The National Press Photographers Foundation annually offers the $6,000 Alan Hagman grant to facilitate projects ranging from human rights to environmental issues. A creative approach to important stories that might otherwise go untold is highly valued. Deadline: Oct 10, 2025.
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"There are only about 370 North Atlantic right whales left. Of those, an alarmingly small number are mothers. Squilla is one of them."
"For this October, the month before the presidential election, Yale Climate Connections has identified enough timely titles to fill two bookshelves: one on climate action, the other on electoral politics."
"Almost nothing stood in the way of the pounding waves that crashed into seaside homes in Staten Island’s Tottenville neighborhood when Superstorm Sandy struck the city 12 years ago.... But after years of work, a system of artificial reefs largely completed this summer could help soften the blow of future hurricanes."
"Maine’s traditional fall hunting seasons are in full swing, but hunters are being asked to avoid eating their game in parts of the state because of the possibility of harmful chemicals in animal meat."
"Albania prevented Monday a ship suspected of transferring a huge amount of hazardous waste from docking at Tirana’s main port, officials said, after a watchdog group alerted authorities."
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