The first of Mongabay's 2023 webinars will feature expert panelists who have reported on, studied and worked on issues related to infrastructure development and its impacts on the environment and local communities. The webinar will focus on regions such as Southeast Asia and Latin America. 7pm ET.
Internews' Earth Journalism Network is offering story grants of USD $1,500 - 2,000 to journalists to produce stories on transnational conservation crimes in the Amazon Region and the threats faced by Indigenous peoples and local communities in Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru. Deadline: Jan 27, 2025.
The Pulitzer Center’s Rainforest Journalism Fund launched this grant in honor of murdered journalist Dom Phillips. Selected proposals for ambitious, wide-reaching journalism projects that investigate the future of the Amazon and how to prevent its collapse will receive the necessary funds to carry out their project. Deadline: Jan 18, 2023.
Anton L. Delgado is a reporter for The Southeast Asia Globe covering news and the environment. He's currently based in Phnom Penh, Cambodia and passionately reports on coastal conditions, renewable energy development, water resources, forest health and more.
Journalismfund.eu's Earth Investigations Programme will award €75,000 for projects on collective development and support services for environmental investigative journalism in Europe. Incorporated legal entities worldwide can apply. Next deadline: Jan 22, 2026.
Registration for journalists is free to attend Ten Across' third in-person summit, in Houston. Panels will examine pressing resilience, sustainability and equity issues impacting the region including climate change challenges related to water, heat and energy; infrastructure and equity; the future of democracy; and risk planning.
"A lungful of air is like a multifunction toolkit for humpback whales."
"Many companies and investors are eager to recycle batteries, but it could take a decade or more before enough used lithium-ion batteries become available."
"Federal environmental enforcement, as measured by Environmental Protection Agency civil cases closed against polluters, hit a two-decade low in 2022, per a report released last week by a national environmental group that blames budget cuts, staff shortages and the U.S. Senate’s failure to confirm key leaders."
"The Arizona Department of Water Resources this week put a limit on the amount of land that can be watered, designating the Hualapai Valley as an irrigation non-expansion area. That means anyone who hasn’t farmed more than 2 acres there during the past five years can’t."
