People & Population

June 11, 2025

Pulitzer Center Webinar: Unburdening the Climate Generation

Join the Climate Psychology Alliance North America and the Pulitzer Center to discuss how to support the generation that is finding solutions after being born into crisis. Learn strategies to take action and defend climate education; brainstorm ways to build capacity for climate action, even when things feel overwhelming. 6 pm ET.

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June 26, 2025

DEADLINE: ONA's MJ Bear Fellowship Program

This Online News Association fellowship is open to young working journalists worldwide who are leading a digital journalism project on AI, climate or resilience. Includes a scholarship to attend the 2025 ONA annual conference, Sept 10-13 in New Orleans, mentoring, skills development and more. Apply by Jun 26.

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As Summer Approaches, Jersey Shore Towns Confront Sea Level Rise

"“Sunny day” flooding is now a thing down the shore, where the tides have risen at twice the global average. Sooner or later, “we’re not going to be able to protect everything everywhere,” one state official says." 

Source: Inside Climate News, 06/04/2025

Deep Cuts Erode Basics Of US Public Health System, Threaten Worse To Come

"Americans are losing a vast array of people and programs dedicated to keeping them healthy. Gone are specialists who were confronting a measles outbreak in Ohio, workers who drove a van to schools in North Carolina to offer vaccinations and a program that provided free tests to sick people in Tennessee."

Source: AP, 06/04/2025

Worry Swirls Over Cuts To Key Federal Agencies As Hurricane Season Begins

"With predictions for a busy hurricane season beginning Sunday, experts in storms and disasters are worried about something potentially as chaotic as the swirling winds: Massive cuts to the federal system that forecasts, tracks and responds to hurricanes."

Source: AP, 06/03/2025

"Is The Oil And Gas Boom Harming New Mexico’s Students?"

"Fossil fuel revenues bankroll education spending in this state, but schools exposed to industry pollution face environmental risks that can affect children’s health and performance." 

Source: Searchlight NM/AP, 06/02/2025

Ancestral Eyes: Storytelling Under The Night Skies Of The Stargazer Highway

"Against the black night, the darker-than-night silhouettes of Monument Valley buttes graced the horizon. Overhead, stars were scattered across the sky—a prank by Coyote, according to Navajo legend—and the stripe of Milky Way stars arced brilliantly across the sky from the southwest to the northeast horizon."

Source: National Parks Traveler, 05/30/2025

"HHS Cancels Funding For Moderna To Develop Vaccines To Combat Bird Flu"

"The Department of Health and Human Services is pulling millions of dollars it had committed to give Moderna to aid the effort to develop a vaccine to combat the bird flu in humans, the company announced Wednesday.

Source: Washington Post, 05/30/2025

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