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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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As Logging Intensifies Wildfires, Wet’suwet’en Fight To Protect Old Growth

"Members of Wet’suwet’en Nation in British Columbia want to conserve a pristine old-growth watershed, Caas Tl’aat Twah, in its traditional territory. The nation has obtained a logging deferral for Caas Tl’aat Twah and is planning how to protect it permanently."

Source: Mongabay, 09/30/2024

"They’ve Got a Plan to Fight Global Warming. It Could Alter the Oceans."

"In a quiet patch of forest in Nova Scotia, a company is building a machine designed to help slow global warming by transforming Earth’s rivers and oceans into giant sponges that absorb carbon dioxide from the air."

Source: NYTimes, 09/25/2024
September 24, 2024

#ProtectWhatWeLove: Artifacts From Floods & Fires in Canada — Stories of Loss & Resilience

Presented by Sierra Club Canada during Climate Week NY, this art exhibit reflects how climate change is impacting lives in Canada and underlines the need to cap rising fossil fuel emissions. 10am - 7pm EDT.

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‘Sustainable’ Logging Clear-Cutting Canada’s Climate-Fighting Forests

"Nonprofit environment watchdogs put their stamps of approval on countless wood products that get touted as responsibly produced. But Reuters found that the timber firms these groups certify are harvesting large swaths of Canada’s older forests, which are critical to containing global warming."

Source: Reuters, 09/10/2024

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