"2 Firefighters Working On Bear Gulch Fire Arrested By Border Patrol"
"Two firefighters working on the Bear Gulch Fire [Wash.] were arrested by U.S. Border Patrol agents on Wednesday."
Source: KING5, 08/29/2025
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AP Freelancer Among 5 Journalists Killed In Israeli Strikes On Gaza Hospital
"Israeli strikes on a hospital in southern Gaza killed five journalists Monday, according to health officials, including one who days earlier had reported for The Associated Press on children being treated for starvation at the same facility."
Source: AP, 08/26/2025
"Interior Deputizes Border Agents To National Park Sites Amid DC Takeover"
"The Interior Department is deputizing federal border agents and sending them to National Park Service sites amid the federal law enforcement takeover of Washington, D.C., Interior Secretary Doug Burgum said Wednesday."
Source: The Hill, 08/21/2025
Ecofiction — A Novel Approach to Environmental Truth-Telling
Fiction and journalism might seem like polar opposites, but some environmental journalists find writing ecofiction is an ideal complement to their day jobs. Drawing on journalistic research skills and curiosity, ecofiction lets them explore environmental issues from a different angle while enjoying an opportunity to unleash their imaginations. Journalist-fictioneers Valerie Brown and Meg Turville-Heitz on working across genre boundaries.
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Press Safety: Police Face Lawsuits Over Attacks On Journalists In La Protests
"Lawsuits after ICE raids and No Kings march say officers targeted reporters, raising alarms about press freedom even in states with strong protections"
Source: Poynter, 07/10/2025
"Iran Threatens To Close Strait of Hormuz: What Would Happen?"
"Iran has warned that it could shut the Strait of Hormuz, one of the world's most critical oil transit chokepoints, in retaliation for U.S. involvement in its conflict with Israel."
Source: Newsweek, 06/20/2025
"Journalists Come Under Fire Covering L.A. Protests"
"Reporters say they were struck with less-lethal rounds fired by law enforcement. Advocates worry it will inhibit vital journalism."
Source: Washington Post, 06/10/2025
"A Court Debates Whether a Climate Lawsuit Threatens National Security"
"Two teams of high-powered lawyers clashed this week in Charleston, S.C., over a global-warming question with major implications: Do climate lawsuits against oil companies threaten national security, as President Trump has claimed?"
Source: NYTimes, 06/03/2025
In West Bank, Hope for Future in Link Between Land and People
On a tour of the West Bank this spring, Yessenia Funes found a region where the relationship between land and people serves as a counterweight to occupation and the threat of violence. For her Voices of Environmental Justice column, Funes exhorts fellow environment journalists to report on that struggle, through stories that touch on wildlife, wildfire, food, climate and more.
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"How Dried-Out Wetlands On The Iran/Iraq Border Threaten The Region"
"The dust storms that have choked Iranians and Iraqis for weeks and hospitalised thousands, are the canary in the coalmine for a complex environmental disaster unfolding in wetlands straddling the two countries' border."
Source: Thomson Reuters Fdn., 05/22/2025
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