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National Science-Health-Environment Reporting Fellowships

Twelve journalists have been selected as 2024 National Science-Health-Environment Reporting Fellows. A collaboration of the Council for the Advancement of Science Writing (CASW), the Association of Health Care Journalists (AHCJ) and the Society of Environmental Journalists (SEJ), early-career US journalists get training, networking, mentoring, new sources and story ideas — while staying at their jobs. Read the announcement.

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"Arab States Call On U.N. Security Council To Meet Over Ethiopian Dam"

"Arab states are calling on the U.N. Security Council to discuss the dispute over Ethiopia’s plan to fill a giant dam it is building on the Blue Nile, Arab League Secretary General Ahmed Aboul Gheit said on Tuesday after a foreign ministers’ meeting."

Source: Reuters, 06/16/2021

G7 Brightens Outlook For New Nature Pact But Pandemic Threatens Deadline

"New pledges by G7 leaders on climate change and biodiversity loss will boost efforts to strike a global pact to protect nature but an October deadline is likely to be missed without in-person talks, officials and observers said on Tuesday."

Source: Thomson Reuters Fdn., 06/16/2021

China Promised To Go Carbon-Neutral By 2060, But Coal Is Still King

"The walls and ceiling of the Nanshan mine shimmer black, carved straight into a 200 million-year-old coal seam running 1,300 feet underground. Black veins of Jurassic-era coal deposits still thread Shanxi province in China's north, enriching public coffers and keeping generations of miners steadily employed."

Source: NPR, 06/16/2021

Judge Says Biden Can't Pause New Leases for Drilling on Public Lands

"A federal judge in Louisiana has blocked the Biden administration’s suspension of new oil and gas leases on federal lands and waters, in the first major legal roadblock for President Biden’s quest to cut fossil fuel pollution and conserve public lands."

Source: NYTimes, 06/16/2021

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