Green Echoes #49 Environmental reporting, opportunities and more
Welcome to yet another edition of Green Echoes–– your monthly newsletter from the Environmental Reporting Collective (ERC). Our mission is to provide you with an all-encompassing update on the latest investigative stories, data sources, reporting and training opportunities, and noteworthy projects related to environmental issues across Asia and beyond.
♻️ Environmental reporting to take note of
The fourth essay of Reuter’s series on how to fix climate journalism discusses how journalists overcome the challenge of accessing accurate climate data in order to report in-depth on climate change and extreme weather events. Some of the others in the series are:
On covering climate change in coal-mining Poland
On guiding audiences through extreme weather events
On connecting climate change to heritage and culture
On the rationale behind the series
The Amazon, the largest rainforest in the world, is also a source and transit point for illegally extracted jungle resources and narcotics, linking nine countries together. This is the Amazon underworld, where cycles of crime and destruction are fueled by a multibillion-dollar illegal trade in drugs, gold and arms.
Carbon Brief and the Reuters Institute launched the Global South Climate Database, a publicly available, searchable database with hundreds of experts in the fields of climate science, climate policy and energy from Asia, Africa, Latin America and the Pacific.
From the ERC community
Lyse Mauvais’s latest story on a city in Iraqi Kurdistan that decided to ban concrete in the 1990s, in a bid to preserve climate-resilient traditional homes.
Perseverance Javangwe’s video story on Indigenous farmers in Gokwe, the southern region of Zimbabwe engages in enhanced garden projects for income generation and household food security after their fields were destroyed by floods during the rainy season.
Varsha Singh’s report on the Gaurikund landslide in India and the questions it raises again on disaster management
Samuel Ajala reports on the rising seawater and oil pollution and how it devastates the Nigerian fishing community of Ayetoro— a town that is ready to be swallowed by the sea.
Stay in the loop and join the ERC Slack community to connect with the ERC team and also meet and engage with fellow journalists and find journalists to collaborate with
⬆️ Opportunities, grants, training, jobs
Free online courses on digital security in seven languages. Apply here
Local Media for Democracy is a media funding scheme that provides financial support to local, regional and community media who are struggling to serve the public interest in places where access to information has significantly decreased. Apply here
The New York Times is looking for a stringer to help us cover Indonesia. Apply here
The US Embassy in Manila and Climate Tracker Asia are launching its #NextGenClimateBootcamp, a fellowship program to equip young and aspiring journalists, 18 to 25, with the tools for climate reporting. Apply here
The United Nations Environment Program Finance Initiative (UNEP FI) is hosting the webinar "Deep dive on nature-based solutions in urban areas". Learn more
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