Green Echoes #55 Environmental reporting, opportunities and more
Welcome to the latest edition of Green Echoes–– your bi-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 mainly training opportunities, and noteworthy projects related to environmental issues across Asia and beyond.
♻️ Environmental reporting from our community
💥 Ekpali Saint speaks to Niger Delta residents who are bearing the brunt of environmental health impacts with visual by Alex Ip
💥 Tanka Dhakal reports on the electrification of public and private transport in Nepal and highlights the gaps in its infrastructure and policy shortfalls
💥 Soumik Dutta looks at the issues around Sikkim’s Teesta Stage III project in India has been controversial for ignoring environmental impacts, not meeting safety requirements, design changes, and time+cost overruns.
💥 Ian Urbina and his team’s latest investigation was published in partnership with The New Yorker on the extensive use of forced labour and environmental crimes in the global seafood supply, specifically within China’s distant water fishing fleet and processing plants. The first piece focuses on at-sea issues. The second piece focuses on issues on land.
💥 Jay Richardson published a new piece about biodiversity surveys in an area earmarked for mining waste in Norway and the history of rhetoric around mining waste in the North of Norway.
💥 Gladstone Taylor recently reported for Yes Magazine about the largest mangrove forest and protected area in Jamaica. (It's part of a larger ocean reporting series supported by the Pulitzer Center)
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⬆️ Opportunities, grants, training, jobs
Journalismfund is offering professional development grants to foster exemplary independent investigative journalism throughout Europe and beyond and to promote journalistic innovation. Apply here
Pact, in partnership with the International Center for Journalists (ICFJ), is hiring consultants for the new Asia Investigative Reporting Network (AIR Network) program. Individual consultants, research agencies and teams of freelance consultants can apply for several remote positions. Apply here
Midcareer journalists covering science, technology, the environment or medicine can apply for the Knight Science Journalism Fellowships for nine months of personalized study, auditing courses at MIT and Harvard, attending lectures and interviewing faculty members. Apply here
Students from Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan and Tajikistan studying journalism, mass communication, law, cultural studies and anthropology can apply for the School of Peacemaking and Media Technology in Central Asia. Apply here
Journalists from selected countries in the Asia Pacific can apply for story grants to support the production of stories that raise awareness of the interlinkages between human, animal and ecosystem health. Apply here
Free Press Unlimited announces two Climate Change Fellowship Programmes for journalists in Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, Palestine, Egypt, Libya, Algeria and Tunisia. Apply here