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November 15, 2024

DEADLINE: Good Science Project–Johns Hopkins MA in Science Writing's Reporting Grants

This annual program aims to improve science journalism and science itself by providing four $5,000 reporting grants for feature-length magazine articles on the funding and practice of science in the US. Deadline: Nov 15, 2024.

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November 7, 2024

DEADLINE: NPPF Alan Hagman Photojournalism Grant

The National Press Photographers Foundation annually offers the $6,000 Alan Hagman grant to facilitate projects ranging from human rights to environmental issues.  A creative approach to important stories that might otherwise go untold is highly valued. Deadline: Nov 7, 2024.

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November 8, 2024

IIJ: The Impact of Layoffs — and How to Weather Them

The Institute for Independent Journalists started collecting data on newsroom layoffs in early 2024, in an effort to uncover patterns of race, class and gender. Join a virtual conversation on the true impacts of these layoffs, including the survey findings and real life experiences from survivors. Noon ET.

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Toxic Contamination Of S. Calif. Coast Lives On Decades Later: Study

"Toxic pesticides dumped off Southern California’s coast decades ago are staying put — deep in adjacent ocean sediments and in the fish that reside in these habitats, a new study has found."

Source: The Hill, 10/29/2024

"New Survey Puts Human Face On Pollution Caused By U.S. Wood Pellet Mills"

"A new groundbreaking survey highlights the human toll from pollution and other quality of life impacts connected to those living near the forest biomass industry’s wood pellet mills in the U.S Southeast. Door-to-door interviews were conducted by a coalition of NGOs, with 312 households surveyed in five mostly poor, rural and minority communities located near pellet mills"

Source: Mongabay, 10/29/2024
October 31, 2024

SciLine Experts on Camera: Environmental Contamination After Hurricanes With Dr. Weihsueh Chiu

Dr. Weihsueh Chiu of Texas A&M will be available from 10 a.m-noon ET for 15-minute 1-on-1 Zoom interviews. He can discuss types of hurrican-damage pollution; how preparations for hurricanes and damage to infrastructure lead to pollution; environmental remediation; and how hurricane-related pollution impacts human health.

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