International

November 7, 2024

DEADLINE: Seed Grants to Support Climate and Environmental Journalism by Immigrant, Black, Indigenous and People of Color (BIPOC)-Serving Newsrooms in the US and Canada

Earth Journalism Network is offering three media grants of up to $8,000 each to support innovative, investigative and/or enterprise reporting projects on environmental or climate change issues in the US or Canada that call attention to topics, groups and/or locations lacking representation in mainstream media. Deadline: Nov 7, 2024.

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November 17, 2024

DEADLINE: Journalism Fellowships, Growing Indigenous Storytellers Program

Six Indigenous fellows will have the opportunity to work at APTN News in Winnipeg, Halifax, Montreal, Ottawa, Vancouver or Whitehorse for six months, and attend IJA’s 2025 Indigenous Media Conference. A program of Journalists for Human Rights, the Indigenous Journalists Association and APTN News. Apply by Nov 17.

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"Exported Gas Produces Far Worse Emissions Than Coal, Major Study Finds"

"Exported gas emits far more greenhouse gas emissions than coal, despite fossil-fuel industry claims it is a cleaner alternative, according to a major new research paper that challenges the controversial yet rapid expansion of gas exports from the US to Europe and Asia."

Source: Guardian, 10/08/2024

Photos Of Vast E-Waste Dumping Ground — And Those Who Make A Living Off It

"When he was just 18 years old, Emmanuel Akatire traveled about 500 miles from his home in Zorko, Ghana, to Accra, the nation’s capital, to find the only work he could — sifting through vast piles of discarded electronics to find valuable scrap metal. A week’s worth of painstaking, often dangerous work, earns him the equivalent of about 60 U.S. dollars."

Source: NPR, 10/07/2024

"Helene Knocked Out a Key Facility for Monitoring the Global Climate"

"Among the many pieces of critical infrastructure that Hurricane Helene knocked offline in Asheville, N.C., was a key federal office for monitoring the global climate. Work is underway to get the facility running again, but the outage is likely to delay some agencies’ monthly updates on global warming and other climate indicators."

Source: NYTimes, 10/04/2024

What Happens To Thousands Of Shipping Containers Lost At Sea?

"Russ Lewis has picked up some strange things along the coast of Long Beach Peninsula in Washington state over the years: Hot Wheels bicycle helmets with feather tufts, life-size plastic turkey decoys made for hunters, colorful squirt guns." ... "These items aren’t like the used fishing gear and beer cans that Lewis also finds tossed overboard by fishers or partygoers. They’re the detritus of commercial shipping containers lost in the open ocean."

Source: AP, 10/04/2024

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