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DEADLINE: A Digital Path to Entrepreneurship and Innovation for Latin America...

Event Date: Friday, June 25, 2021This twice-yearly virtual program on entrepreneurship and innovation for young journalists in Latin America is accepting applications until Jun 25 for the 15-week Fall...

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St. Croix Refinery That Rained Oil On Neighbors Shuts Down Indefinitely

"Limetree Bay, a massive oil refinery in the Caribbean, announced Monday that it is ceasing operations following a number of catastrophic errors that rained oil droplets on St. Croix, sent residents to...

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Journalists Team Up To Continue Colleagues’ Work Exposing Mining Risks

Environmental journalists around the world sometimes pay for their work with their freedom, safety or even their lives. The Forbidden Stories network continues the reporting of some of those...

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"Honduran Court Finds Construction Exec Guilty In Activist's Murder"

"A former top executive of a Honduran construction firm was found guilty on Monday of being a collaborator in the 2016 murder of indigenous environmental activist Berta Caceres, a judge said in a court...

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"Deadly Coral Disease Sweeping Caribbean Linked To Wastewater From Ships"

"A virulent and fast-moving coral disease that has swept through the Caribbean could be linked to waste or ballast water from ships, according to research."BiodiversityPollutionWater &...

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Sea Turtles: "The Pandemic Poaching Pandemic"

"In Costa Rica, Panama, and elsewhere, COVID-19 lockdowns caused suddenly desperate people to begin poaching sea turtle eggs and meat, threatening hard-won conservation achievements."BiodiversityLaws...

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"Storm Fred Causes Power Outages In Dominican Republic, Heads To Florida"

"Thousands of people in the Dominican Republic were left without electricity or running water on Thursday in the wake of Tropical Storm Fred, which weakened to a depression as it grazed the northern...

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"Rescuers Racing In Haiti As Storm Threatens To Follow Earthquake"

"The death toll from a magnitude 7.2 earthquake in Haiti soared on Sunday as rescuers raced to find survivors amid the rubble ahead of a potential deluge from an approaching tropical storm."Climate...

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Exxon Guyana Coast Oil Drilling Gamble ‘Poses Major Environmental Risk’

"ExxonMobil’s huge new Guyana project faces charges of a disregard for safety from experts who claim the company has failed to adequately prepare for possible disaster, the Guardian and Floodlight have...

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"Haiti Earthquake Survivors, Stranded By Storm, Search For Shelter"

"Survivors of the powerful earthquake that shook Haiti scrambled for shelter, food and medical supplies Wednesday as officials acknowledged that the deadly temblor had disrupted vaccination efforts....

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‘We Can’t Live Like This’: Climate Shocks Rain On Honduras’s Poorest

"Rural communities like Chapagua that have done least to stoke the climate crisis barely have time to recover from one disaster before another hits".Climate ChangeDisastersEnvironmental JusticePeople...

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New Reporting Network Aims To Make Connections in the Mississippi Basin

The Mississippi River and its tributaries drain more than 40% of the continent, but most coverage of environmental stories within the Mississippi Basin is localized and siloed. The recently launched...

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Plans to Reopen St. Croix’s Limetree Refinery Raise Residents' Concern

"An accident-prone oil refinery in the U.S. Virgin Islands with a history of serious environmental violations could soon reopen under new ownership, despite strong objections from nearby communities, a...

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The Call of the Conch — How Seashells Tell Nature’s Story

Cynthia Barnett’s deeply researched and engagingly written new book, “The Sound of the Sea: Seashells and the Fate of the Oceans,” brilliantly weaves together mollusk anecdotes, ocean science and human...

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Climate Crisis May Quickly Confront U.S., World With National Security Threats

The climate-security nexus has drawn attention from the Biden administration, but less so elsewhere, even as security experts worry about climate change as a threat multiplier that can exacerbate other...

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Houston Plays Host to First On-Site SEJ Conference Since 2019

Environmental journalists from around the country and beyond will gather in Houston later this month for the Society of Environmental Journalists’ 31st annual conference. Widely known as the energy...

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A Castoff Bumper Leads to a Literary ‘Autobiography’ of Plastic

Environmental writer Allison Cobb, in “Plastic: An Autobiography,” tells the story of the ubiquitous material through a series of interwoven narratives that range from her own experiences with it...

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DEADLINE: Y. Eva Tan Conservation Reporting Fellowship Program

Event Date: Saturday, September 10, 2022Mongabay's new six-month, twice-yearly remote program will support up to 12 young and aspiring journalists from the world's biodiversity hotspots — six at their...

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"Fuel Spills In The Bahamas Near White Sand Beaches Of Great Exuma"

"A vessel delivering diesel to The Bahamas resort island of Great Exuma spilled around 35,000 gallons of the fuel early on Wednesday, according to the country's acting prime minister."DisastersEnergy...

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"The Barbados Rebellion"

"Caribbean nations are trapped between the global financial system and a looming climate disaster. One country’s leaders have been fighting to find a way out."Climate ChangeCentral America & the...

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