ICFJ's second math webinar features mathematician and AI entrepreneur Dr. África Periáñez, on how math helps solve global crises, plus a discussion on how journalists can use Instagram's new app Threads. At the end of the series, participants are eligible for a USD500 story grant. 10:30am ET.
Meet SEJ member John Earl! John is an investigative journalist who has reported on Southern California water-management issues for over 16 years, including climate change, drought, government/corporate transparency and environmental justice.
"More companies are eschewing manicured grass in favor of native plants, a shift driven by the environmental costs of installing and maintaining lawns."
"More than a century after a mass bison slaughter, the animals are restoring Great Plains ecosystems and reinvigorating Indigenous customs like the sun dance."
"Deforestation in Brazil's Amazon fell 34% in the first half of 2023, preliminary government data showed on Thursday, hitting its lowest level in four years as President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva institutes tougher environmental policies."
"The United States is home to an enormous array of animal industries — including industrial agriculture, fur farming and the exotic pet trade — that pose a significant risk of creating infectious disease outbreaks in humans, according to a new report by experts at Harvard Law School and New York University."
"Municipalities that are suffering from the climate crisis employ lobbyists already in the pay of fossil fuel companies".
"The International Atomic Energy Agency has approved a plan by Japan to release more than a million tons of treated nuclear waste water from the destroyed Fukushima power plant into the ocean, despite vehement international opposition."
"The town of Hauula packs hundreds of homes into a narrow strip of land sandwiched between verdant, towering cliffs of the Koolau mountain range and the Pacific. But the stunning views obscure an environmental problem beneath the ground."
"John Kerry, President Biden’s special envoy for climate change, said on Thursday he would travel to China next week to restart global warming negotiations between the world’s two largest polluters."
