❄️ It's the end of the year, which means Uproot's Staff will be taking a short break this winter to rest, recover, and reenergize to serve our wonderful community in 2026. Wishing you all a wonderful winter season. We'll see you back online in January! ❄️

🚨📢JOB ALERT📢🚨 @ilpublicmedia.bsky.social is hiring an Agriculture/Environmental Reporter to produce coverage of agricultural and environmental issues affecting central Illinois with audio-rich stories accompanied by digital content. jobs.pmja.org/job/agricult...

"How a renewables superpower, lack of transparency, and international financing have created a gaping fossil fuel loophole" in Indonesia. Uprooter @nithincoca.com on @climateandcap.bsky.social www.climateandcapitalmedia.com/what-and-who...

🚨📢JOB ALERT📢🚨 McClatchy South Carolina is hiring a coastal climate reporter to provide project-level coverage of environmental issues along the coast of South Carolina, North Carolina, and Georgia. mcclatchy.rec.pro.ukg.net/MCC1008MCLTC...

Check out the 2025 Uproot Gift Guide on our Instagram! www.instagram.com/p/DSGGaWgkyP...

"A heat vulnerability index created by Northwestern University could direct environmental resources to Chicago’s most impacted neighborhoods, but it’s locked behind bureaucracy." Uprooter @nabeelawashington.com for @prismreports.org prismreports.org/2025/12/01/c...

🚨📢JOB ALERT📢🚨 @mongabay.com is hiring an Associate Fellowship Editor to work on their English-language fellowship program, including recruiting, selecting, and onboarding fellows; organizing training sessions; and working directly with fellows. mongabay.org/opportunity/...

For Farm School NYC, federal funding cuts have "put their work with various community partners in jeopardy." Uprooter Iris M. Crawford for @npquarterly.bsky.social nonprofitquarterly.org/if-farm-scho...

"Mega-projects, plastic waste, and shrinking fish stocks are reshaping Lamu Island, exposing the environmental and social costs of East Africa’s development ambitions." Uprooter Kang-Chun Cheng for @untoldmag.org untoldmag.org/kenya-plasti...

Apply to the Metcalf Ocean Nexus Academy, a fellowship for journalists by Ocean Nexus & @metcalfuri.bsky.social, in collaboration with the Uproot Project. Learn how our relationship with the ocean is intertwined with systemic inequities! Details & Apply Here: uprootproject.org/mona-fellows...

🚨📢JOB ALERT📢🚨 Detroit PBS is hiring a Great Lakes Now Intern to support GLN’s digital video operation, assisting in the production of vertical videos created from original reporting and existing television segments. www.detroitpbs.org/about/get-in...

In Sonoma County, CA, "two groups, Shelterwood Collective and Solar Punk Farms, are actively calling queer people back to the land, and not only to party." Uprooter @climatedaddykqed.bsky.social for @kqednews.kqed.org www.kqed.org/arts/1398417...

🚨📢JOB ALERT📢🚨 @theguardian.com is hiring an Assistant Editor for The Long Wave, a weekly newsletter which explores Black life and culture from around the world. workwithus.theguardian.com/job-search/e...

"Belize is on track to protect 30% of its marine environment by 2026. What does that mean for those doing the protection?" Uprooter @andrehabet.bsky.social for @climatespotlight.bsky.social climatespotlight.com/marine-prote...

🚨📢JOB ALERT📢🚨 @opb.org is hiring a full-time intern for a 10-week internship for an individual who doesn't come from a traditional journalism background. www.journalismjobs.com/1.692113-eme...

"A newly published history of the wind turns to sea gods and early wind turbines to show how today’s challenges to renewable energy repeat a centuries-old pattern." Uprooter @byjasonpdinh.bsky.social interviews Simon Winchester for @thexylom.com www.thexylom.com/post/simon-w...

This year, our members have published powerful stories, earned new bylines, stepped into leadership roles, and built connections. We’re proud of how far our community has come — and there’s so much more ahead. Make a Giving Tuesday gift at buff.ly/aixKiCA

This Giving Tuesday, help us continue expanding access to resources, mentorship, and professional growth for journalists whose perspectives are essential to environmental storytelling. Make a Giving Tuesday gift at secure.actblue.com/donate/theup...

Uproot members come together to support each other through the celebrations and challenges of the year, and we are so grateful for our network. We'll be taking the next week off social media to spend time with our in-person communities. See you soon!

🎓📰 @idabwellssociety.bsky.social is partnering with news organizations across the country to offer investigative reporting internships to collegiate journalists and recent college graduates during the summer of 2026. idabwellssociety.org/news/summer-...

✍️Fellowship Opportunity ✍️ Early-career journalists pursuing or interested in pursuing careers in science, health, and/or environmental reporting are invited to apply to a National Science-Health-Environment Reporting Fellowship. healthjournalism.org/fellowships/...

🚨📢JOB ALERT📢🚨 @scifri.bsky.social is hiring a Senior Social Media Manager to design and execute an innovative social media strategy. www.sciencefriday.com/senior-socia...

Starting next fall, public schools in Illinois will be required to teach climate education. Uprooter @amberonradio.bsky.social for @insideclimatenews.org insideclimatenews.org/news/2010202...

In Puerto Rico, "the lack of a plan to address climate change and the absence of precise data on landslide damage are hindering road and highway repairs, posing a constant risk." Uprooter @mjoel17.bsky.social for @cpipr.bsky.social periodismoinvestigativo.com/2025/10/slow...

🚨📢JOB ALERT📢🚨 @mississippitoday.org is hiring a reporter to cover issues and stories important to the Jackson community. www.journalismjobs.com/1691808-jack...

📝Fellowship Opportunity📝 @nationalpress.bsky.social is accepting applications for its Widening the Pipeline Fellowship, designed to support journalists of color staying in – and leading – the newsrooms of tomorrow. DEADLINE: Dec. 14, 2025 nationalpress.org/training/wid...

"From city permits to state acquiescence and federal contracts, how every level of government enabled toxic detention..." Uprooter @ricomoore.bsky.social for @themarginus.bsky.social themargin.us/features/lic...

The media is under increasing attack in the Trump-era, so I built this list of resources and associations for guidance, help, and mutual aid. Do you have ideas for additional resources to include? @niemanlab.org @eff.org @knightcolumbia.org @rcfp.org @uprootproject.bsky.social go.bsky.app/SW8fM3i

🚨📢JOB ALERT📢🚨 @newrepublic.com is hiring a Reporter-Researcher to work primarily as a fact checker, and is also encouraged to pitch ideas and write. www.journalismjobs.com/1691910-repo...

The Mountain Club of Uganda is working to make rock climbing more accessible for its community. Uprooter KC Cheng for @csmonitor.bsky.social www.csmonitor.com/The-Culture/...

Check out this week's Field Notes, a roundup of articles, events, and job postings that we've shared recently. uprootproject.org/field-notes/...

🚨📢JOB ALERT📢🚨 @ecorinews.bsky.social is hiring an Environmental Reporter to cover environmental challenges, report on local solutions to environmental problems, and investigate polluters and hold elected officials and state agencies to account. ecori.org/job-listings/

In October, "a federal court ordered FEMA to revisit its grid-rebuilding plan and factor in solar." Uprooter @jillianmelero.bsky.social for Connect Puerto Rico, a newsletter about the issues affecting Puerto Rico's energy transition. connect-puerto-rico.beehiiv.com/p/fema-puert...

🚨📢JOB ALERT📢🚨 @theexamination.org is hiring an editor to lead their food and polluting industries reporting teams. www.theexamination.org/careers/inve...

"The inherent tension Gates posits between 'quality of life' and 'lowering emissions' is simply false—and it’s a favored talking point of climate denialists." Uprooter @nitishpahwa.com for @slate.com slate.com/technology/2...

Join Ocean Nexus for the Communicating Environmental Justice and Social Equity in the Ocean Context webinar on 11/19/25 at 1 PM ET to hear from the MONA Fellows and the Directors of The Uproot Project, the @metcalfuri.bsky.social, and Ocean Nexus! oceannexus.org/webinar/

🚨📢JOB ALERT📢🚨 @bloomberg.com is hiring a Climate Reporter in New Delhi to cover climate change in India. bloomberg.avature.net/careers/JobD...

"One in three fire departments in West Virginia is at risk of getting hit by a flood. Climate change is amplifying the risk to these and other key community service buildings." Uprooter @sarahbishi.bsky.social for @mtnstspotlight.bsky.social mountainstatespotlight.org/2025/10/29/f...

You know what you need to do more of? Toot your own horn! Uprooters and journalists of color: reply with a link to something you've written lately that you're proud of! 📯✍️

🚨📢JOB ALERT📢🚨 Mongabay is hiring a Contributing Editor for their Ocean Desk to be responsible for the production and publication of news articles about oceans, averaging 12 per month. mongabay.org/opportunity/...

The Uproot Project Database is a valuable resource for journalists looking to connect with editors, mentors, experts, sources, and peers within the environmental space. uprootproject.org/members/

🚨📢JOB ALERT📢🚨 @elconfidencial.bsky.social ( Madrid, Spain) is hiring an experienced Science Journalist. www.elconfidencial.com/tecnologia/2...

🚨📢JOB ALERT📢🚨 @cnn.com is hiring a Vice President, Weather, to lead the transformation of CNN’s Weather vertical. careers.wbd.com/global/en/jo...

"A workshop ... in Culebra found that there is common ground for solving the challenges of accessing local fish." Uprooter Luis Alexis Rodríguez Cruz, Emmanuel Maldonado-González, Nathania Martínez, and Nicolás X. Gómez Andújar for Nueve Millones www.9millones.com/en/story/lo-...

🚨📢JOB ALERT📢🚨 @mongabay.com is hiring a full-time Wire Reporter based in Asia to cover conservation and environmental issues, with a focus on Asia. mongabay.org/opportunity/...

"Scientists and community members in Altadena are testing ways that California species can assist efforts to rebuild" after the L.A. Fires. Uprooter @amberonradio.bsky.social for @smithsonianmag.bsky.social www.smithsonianmag.com/science-natu...

For Alaska Native peoples, "climate impacts are making it more difficult to remain on their traditional homelands." Jess Zhang for @themarginus.bsky.social themargin.us/features/mou...

🚨📢JOB ALERT📢🚨 @sierraclub.org is hiring a part-time Editorial Fellow for a six-month position for early-career journalists. jobs.lever.co/sierraclub/3...

"Severe air pollution from urban emissions during Nepal’s Gen-Z protests has sent vulnerable groups to hospitals with serious respiratory complications." Uprooter @tankadhakal.bsky.social for @thexylom.com www.thexylom.com/post/nepal-g...

Call for Applications: Press On’s Freedomways Reporting Fellowship is accepting applications for its 8-month fellowship from March to Oct 2026, for 6 reporters and storytellers from the South. form.jotform.com/252935798928...