The Climate Change Media Partnership, Internews’ Earth Journalism Network and the Stanley Center for Peace and Security is offering fellowships for journalists interested in covering the 28th United Nations Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP28) in Dubai, Nov 30-Dec 12, 2023. Apply by Jun 30.
Meet SEJ member Sarah Sax! Sarah is an award-winning freelance journalist and video producer based in Brooklyn, NY. She covers environmental change and climate justice, with a soft spot for stories at the intersection of food production, land rights and climate change.
"In a church on Chicago's West Side near where he grew up, Marques Jones Jr. is hoping to earn more money and help his family by learning how to install and maintain the solar panels he now sees everywhere he goes."
"Call it a smoke front. That’s what it looks like from space on weather satellites and here on the ground on air quality monitors."
"The Interior and Energy departments will spend the coming months trying to cement some of the White House’s critical energy ambitions, ahead of an election year in which Republicans are likely to attack President Joe Biden’s focus on boosting renewables and cutting planet-warming emissions."
"As it negotiates water rights with tribes, Arizona goes to unique lengths to extract concessions that limit tribes’ opportunities for growth and economic development, according to a ProPublica and High Country News investigation."
"Smoky days can double emergency hospital visits for asthma, which disproportionately affects Black and Latino children. In New York, the Bronx was especially hard hit."
"A steady and remarkable rise in average global ocean temperatures this year is now outpacing anything seen in four decades of satellite observations, causing many scientists to suddenly blare alarm over the risks and realities of climate change."
"A jury on Wednesday ordered the electric utility PacifiCorp to pay punitive damages for causing devastating wildfires in Oregon in 2020 — on top of an earlier verdict already expected to amount to billions of dollars."
"The House voted Wednesday to bar the Energy Department from moving forward with a proposed rule governing efficiency requirements for both gas and electric cooking appliances."
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