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International

April 13, 2025

DEADLINE: East-West Center's Jefferson Fellowships

The East-West Center's Jefferson Fellowships comprise a three-week reporting and study tour with the goal of leveraging news media to enhance public understanding of cultures, issues, and trends in the Indo-Pacific region. 2025 theme is The Future of Food Security: Lessons from Southeast Asia. Deadline: Apr 13.

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"12 Books That Demonstrate Women’s Leadership On Climate"

"From explorations of motherhood to climate fiction, women are setting the tone in climate literature and action." "The Yale Climate Connections bookshelf for March, also known as Women’s History Month, began to take shape when I saw the announcement for “Mother Creature Kin: What We Learn from Nature’s Mothers in a Time of Unraveling” by Chelsea Steinauer-Scudder."

Source: Yale Climate Connections, 03/14/2025

‘Global Weirding’: Climate Whiplash Hitting World’s Biggest Cities: Study

"Climate whiplash is already hitting major cities around the world, bringing deadly swings between extreme wet and dry weather as the climate crisis intensifies, a report has revealed." "Swings between drought and floods striking from Dallas to Shanghai, while Madrid and Cairo are among cities whose climate has flipped".

Source: Guardian, 03/13/2025

Plastic Pollution Leaves Seabirds With Brain Damage Similar To Alzheimer’s

"Ingesting plastic is leaving seabird chicks with brain damage “akin to Alzheimer’s disease”, according to a new study – adding to growing evidence of the devastating impact of plastic pollution on marine wildlife."

Source: Guardian, 03/13/2025

"Majority Of The World’s Population Breathes Dirty Air, Report Says"

"Most of the world has dirty air, with just 17% of cities globally meeting air pollution guidelines, a report Tuesday found. Switzerland-based air quality monitoring database IQAir analyzed data from 40,000 air quality monitoring stations in 138 countries and found that Chad, Congo, Bangladesh, Pakistan and India had the dirtiest air."

Source: AP, 03/13/2025
March 19, 2025

See The Solutions: How Photojournalism Can Better Capture Stories of Hope, Resilience and Climate Solutions

This webinar from Project Drawdown and Solutions Journalism Network will explore how compelling visuals can transform climate solutions into engaging stories, the role of diverse storytellers and subjects in illuminating community-led solutions, and practical insights for capturing solutions. 2 p.m. ET.

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With Climate, an Undercurrent of Violence

In his ambitious first book, “The Heat and the Fury: On the Frontlines of Climate Violence,” journalist Peter Schwartzstein explores how climate change explains conflict, even war. BookShelf editor Tom Henry calls it a deeply researched volume that makes a strong case for the connections between global warming, political instability and violence, not just in poorer regions but for the richer West as well.

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"US Withdraws From UN Climate Damage Fund"

"Establishment of the fund in 2023 was a victory for climate change activists from developing nations."

"The Trump administration has withdrawn the United States from the United Nations climate damage fund that was established in 2023 to help developing countries most vulnerable to climate change when natural disasters strike.

Source: Politico, 03/10/2025

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