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"EPA Loophole Lets 600 Toxic PFAS Chemicals Evade Review, Petition Says"

"A loophole in the federal government’s procedures for reviewing new chemicals has allowed at least 600 so-called forever chemicals into American markets despite evidence they pose serious health risks, according to a petition filed Thursday."

Source: Reuters, 10/17/2022

"20 Nations at High Risk From Global Warming Might Halt Debt Payments"

"Twenty countries most vulnerable to climate change are considering halting their repayment of $685 billion in collective debt, loans that they say are an “injustice,” Mohamad Nasheed, the former president of the Maldives, said on Friday."

Source: NYTimes, 10/17/2022
October 31, 2024

DEADLINE: The Open Notebook Early-Career Fellowship Program

This part-time, remote, 12-month fellowship program is for early-career science journalists anywhere in the world with <three years of regular professional science writing experience. Work with a mentor to plan, report and write articles for publication at The Open Notebook. $6,600 stipend. Apply by Oct 31, 2024.

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February 1, 2026

DEADLINE: New Media Writing Prize

The Media School at Bournemouth University in the UK awards cash prizes for storytelling (fiction or non-fiction) written specifically for delivery and reading/viewing on a PC or Mac, the web or a hand-held device such as an iPad or mobile phone. Deadline is Feb 1, 2026.

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"Germany’s New Hunger for Coal Dooms a Tiny Village"

"For months, die-hard environmental activists have camped in the fields and occupied the trees in this tiny farming village in western Germany, hoping that like-minded people from across the country would arrive and help stop the expansion of a nearby open-pit coal mine that threatened to swallow the village and its farms."

Source: NYTimes, 10/14/2022

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