🌊 Blue Veins, Balkan Truths Six media outlets uncover the state of the Western Balkans’ rivers, lakes & coasts. Hydropower, pollution & neglect are eroding Europe’s last wild waters. Read the series via @earthjournalism.bsky.social earthjournalism.net/special-repo...

📣 Journalists in Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, North Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia and Kosovo: Join our virtual workshop to strengthen your reporting on environmental threats and solutions in the Western Balkans. Apply by November 12: https://loom.ly/FCVenBw

🗞️ Calling all journalists! Join us for a workshop on geoengineering and what to expect at upcoming UN climate negotiations. 🗓️ 28 Oct 2025 | 13:00–15:00 UTC 🔗 bit.ly/HOMEAlliance... #ClimateJustice #HandsOffMotherEarth #NoGeoengineering #COP30 @cjaourpower.bsky.social @ciel.org

📢 Media outlets in Thailand and Indonesia: EJN is offering €8,000 grants to support media programming initiatives that cover corporate greenwashing, climate action & innovation as an opportunity for growth, challenges enforcing ESG frameworks, and more. Apply by November 10: https://loom.ly/ku88IRM

🌡️ Missed our recent #AMA on covering extreme heat? Our panel of climate reporters and heat health experts shared insights on how journalists can bring more context, clarity and impact to their coverage of this urgent, under-reported issue. Watch the full recording: https://loom.ly/ka9xVck

🛠️ GIJN's Tips & Tools • @bellingcat.com outlines strategies to monitor conflict amid misinformation. • A @pulitzercenter.org webinar shares environmental story scraping tools. • An @earthjournalism.bsky.social grant supports media coverage of environmental challenges. https://twp.ai/9PXF2W

#TBT 2018 Headlines: The Mintails liquidation left a R330m environmental mess; a case study in failed mine closure. Parliament probed the toxic legacy. Meanwhile, the Mabola judgement set new boundaries for protected areas. @gijn.org @earthjournalism.bsky.social

🔋That’s a wrap on our renewable energy workshop in Tamil Nadu, India! 13 local communicators and experts explored the state’s clean energy transition, plus how to use data for stronger climate coverage: https://loom.ly/WgpqpSg

Il giorno della manifestazione per la Palestina è uscito questo mio articolo sull'impatto dell'acquacoltura. L'attenzione di tutto il mondo era sul altro. Forse ha ancora senso sottolineare cos'è il colonialismo e genocidio @earthjournalism.bsky.social www.editorialedomani.it/ambiente/acq...

Power of resilience: In our latest #PowerTracker investigation, we visisted Nomzamo informal settlement, where the community no longer relies on Eskom for its energy needs. Learn all about the project ➡️ bit.ly/3V14s3E @mobilize-za.bsky.social @gijn.org @earthjournalism.bsky.social

📣 Calling all journalists, media orgs, and NGOs in the Western Balkans! @earthjournalism.bsky.social's Western Balkans Environmental Media Grant 2025 is now open & includes €10,000 to support reporting on biodiversity, climate, & more. 🗓️ Deadline: Oct 30. https://twp.ai/9PX5GX

This story is supported by @earthjournalism.bsky.social. 📹: Selena Liang/ 梁錫嵐 🎬: Aorui Pi/ 皮奧睿 (@aoruii.bsky.social) 📸: Alex Ip/葉清霖 (@alexip718.com) www.thexylom.com/post/hong-ko...

People power: In this #PowerTracker investigation, we explore how a rural Mpumalanga community responded to climate disaster, and took their survival into their own hands. Explore the full investigation here ➡️ bit.ly/3V14s3E @mobilize-za.bsky.social @gijn.org @earthjournalism.bsky.social

🌍 🌟 Heartfelt Thanks to @earthjournalism.bsky.social for the Feature!  I’m incredibly grateful to Earth Journalism Network for highlighting my recent achievement in your October newsletter! 🌟 Being recognized for my @coveringclimatenow.org Journalism Award 2025. 🏆

In our investigation, 'People who own the sun', researcher Mareka Mokwatlo shared what socially owned renewable energy comprises, and how it works. You can read the investigation here: bit.ly/4odp4Tt @gijn.org @earthjournalism.bsky.social

📣Media organizations, journalist networks, civil society groups and academic institutions in Albania, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Croatia, North Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia and Kosovo: we're awarding a €10,000 grant to improve reporting on environmental threats in the region: https://loom.ly/lCReJyQ

Earlier this year we visited the Selemela Solar Park, in North West province, to learn about how they're working to uplift the surrounding community. You can read the full investigation here: bit.ly/4mqSwVh @gijn.org @earthjournalism.bsky.social

This month, we're spotlighting grantee Krishna Adhikari, who reported from Palpa, Nepal, on amriso cultivation as both an environmental solution and a sustainable livelihood. Read Adhikari's story for @onlinekhabar.bsky.social: https://loom.ly/-amjRus

EJN and the @stanleycenter.org have awarded 12 talented journalists from Asia, Africa and Latin America fellowships to report from #COP30 in Belém, Brazil this November. Meet our #CCMP Fellows and learn more about the program: https://loom.ly/AePr2WE

Journalism does more than inform—it holds power to account. In 2021, grantee Ravichandrasarma Ramkumar investigated plans for large-scale sand mining on Sri Lanka’s Mannar Island. His story sparked parliament debate and pushed agencies toward transparency. Learn more: https://loom.ly/_wkBVb0

#EarthShorts is back—and we’re thrilled to introduce our 2025 Asia-Pacific cohort! Over the next six months, 20 talented journalists and content creators from South and Southeast Asia will produce engaging and accurate short-form videos on the biodiversity crisis. Stay tuned! https://loom.ly/7gqvAYM

Only 35% of commercial fish stocks in the Mediterranean and Black Sea are estimated to be sustainably fished—an alarming issue that’s too often overlooked in the media. Missed our recent webinar on covering IUU fishing in the region? Catch the full recording here: https://loom.ly/i7I8oGg

85% of Filipinos prefer watching news to reading it. To meet audiences where they are, GMA Integrated News—with EJN support—launched an innovative program of videos to boost public climate literacy. Check out their work and learn more about the project: https://loom.ly/9R1PruQ

#TBT to 2015! Our journalists uncovered critical stories: from exposing missing rhino horns in Maputo & China's poaching syndicates, to SA's worst drought in 23 yrs & the R30bn "mess" of abandoned mines. Relive the investigations! oxpeckers.org/investigations @gijn.org @earthjournalism.bsky.social

Blue Veins, Balkans Truths, our collaborative journalism project on threats to the region's shared waters, launches next month. Stay tuned! @ekolist.bsky.social @kallxo.com @rtcgme.bsky.social

Environmental red flags from 2014: "Mpumalanga’s ticking time-bomb" highlighted SA's worst water quality due to coal mining. "Dairy to dust" showed opencast mining destroying farmers' livelihoods in Mpumalanga. Explore further: oxpeckers.org/2014/03/toxic-tap-water @earthjournalism.bsky.social

The @earthjournalism.bsky.social's Environmental Investigative Journalism Programme funds cross-border teams investigating illegal or unregulated environmental issues linked to European interests, in Europe and beyond. Learn more:

🎉 Huge congratulations to our media grantee Kantor Berita Indonesia, whose EJN-supported program, Planet Plate, won “Podcast Innovation of the Year” at the Radioinfo Asia Podcast Awards! Check it out: https://loom.ly/KQ8YQGQ

Με την ολοκλήρωση του εργαστηρίου, δύο συμμετέχοντες/-ουσες θα λάβουν χρηματοδότηση 1.000 ευρώ έκαστος/-η για να υλοποιήσουν τη δική τους δημοσιογραφική έρευνα, με την καθοδήγηση και υποστήριξη του Solomon και του @earthjournalism.bsky.social. [Φώτο: Αλέξανδρος Λιτσαρδάκης]

#TBT to 2013! 🗓️ A decade ago, Oxpeckers exposed rhino horn & ivory smuggling, investigated Chinese links in wildlife trade, & highlighted mining threats to wetlands. Explore our impactful 2013 investigations & more in our archive! ➡️ oxpeckers.org/investigations @gijn.org @earthjournalism.bsky.social

💥 Solomon media lab: Πώς κάνουμε έρευνα για τις #ιχθυοκαλλιέργειες Το Solomon διοργανώνει διήμερο εργαστήριο αφιερωμένο στη δημοσιογραφική έρευνα για τον κλάδο των ιχθυοκαλλιεργειών στην Ελλάδα, με την υποστήριξη του διεθνούς δικτύου @earthjournalism.bsky.social. wearesolomon.com/el/mag/ta-ne...

Join the next phase of #The89Percent Project: We're asking partner journalists and newsrooms to cover to the 80-89% of people in the world who want their gov'ts to do more to address climate change: Who are they, why do they care, are they surprised to learn they’re the overwhelming majority? 🧵

🔥Got a burning question about extreme heat—and how to report on it? Participate in our upcoming AMA to ask our panel of experts anything on the topic. Submit your questions via the EJN WhatsApp or Google Group and we’ll share the panel’s responses on September 18: https://loom.ly/91Xkp0s 👀

Congrats to @jeffjosephpaul.bsky.social on the 2025 Prem Bhatia Award for Excellence in Environmental Journalism 2025 for his EJN-supported story on pesticide use in Kerala cardamom farms, among others: https://loom.ly/wCyJZn8

🐵 Missed our media training workshop on great ape conservation and One Health in Africa? Catch the highlights in a new video resource premiering next month, featuring useful insights from experts in the field and editors. Watch it on September 4: https://loom.ly/ARiCtzc

Three days of a deep dive into India's journey with renewable energy, especially wind and solar. With a focus on south India. Courtesy @earthjournalism.bsky.social #REinIndia

📣 Next month: Experts from @pulitzercenter.org and @oceana.bsky.social will discuss IUU seafood in EU supply chains, transparency and regulatory gaps, and how journalists can report on these issues: https://loom.ly/Eg_eNzM

🔥Got a question about extreme heat—and how to report on it? Participate in our upcoming AMA to ask our panel of experts anything on the topic. Submit your questions via the EJN WhatsApp or Google Group and we’ll share the panel’s responses on September 18: https://loom.ly/91Xkp0s 👀

Thank you @nextcity.org for syndicating our reporting, supported by @earthjournalism.bsky.social ! Subscribe to our FREE newsletter for more updates: buttondown.com/thexylom

📣Help us make heat risk visible! We're looking for original photos of the impacts of extreme heat around the world, and the ways people are responding to it. Learn more and enter by August 29: https://loom.ly/Fz8N4Og

📣 Journalists: Join our upcoming webinar to learn how illegal seafood reaches EU markets—and how to investigate it. Together with expert panelists, we’ll explore how to track supply chains, expose enforcement gaps and use OSINT tools to strengthen your reporting. Register: https://loom.ly/Eg_eNzM

🌳 O Fundo de Jornalismo de Soluções para a América Latina, apoiado pela @earthjournalism.bsky.social, está com chamada aberta para subsídio de reportagens focadas em respostas à crise de perda de biodiversidade na América Latina. São 10 bolsas. 🗓️ Prazo: 18 de agosto. https://twp.ai/E69o2o

📣We're looking for powerful images that make the invisible visible. Show us how extreme heat is shaping your city, your work, your community or the natural world around you. Enter by August 29: https://loom.ly/Fz8N4Og

NEW: Despite being one of the densest, wealthiest, and most energy-efficient cities in the world, only 0.8% of Hong Kong’s power comes from renewable sources, even with a generous feed-in tariff program. Why? Reporting for this story was supported by Internews’ @earthjournalism.bsky.social .

This World Indigenous Peoples’ Day, we’ve curated a playlist of EJN webinars featuring Indigenous perspectives on everything from land rights and conservation to climate justice and more. Check it out to strengthen your reporting on Indigenous issues: https://loom.ly/XrYEiuo

Calling solutions-driven journalists in Latin America! Our media grantee, Latin American Solutions Journalism Fund, is offering fellowships to journalists who have received #SoJo training and want to report on nature-based solutions to the biodiversity crisis. Due Aug. 18: https://loom.ly/ewPjejM

🌿 ¡Oportunidad para medios y periodistas! El Fondo Latinoamericano de Periodismo de Soluciones ha abierto su cuarta convocatoria de becas de producción periodística 👇 @elcolectivo506.bsky.social

📣Is extreme heat putting people at risk where you live? Help us make heat visible by submitting your best photos of heat impacts and action to our global Extreme Heat Photo Contest. Enter by August 29: https://loom.ly/Fz8N4Og

📣Want to connect with fellow environmental journalists and stay updated on EJN’s latest grant opportunities and resources? Join EJNet, our global community of environmental reporters on WhatsApp and Google Groups: https://loom.ly/91Xkp0s

📢 Media outlets in Nepal: we’re offering seed grants of €4,500 each to support new programming on natural resource management and green growth! Do you have an interesting idea for a pilot program, show or column that digs into these critical issues? Apply by August 21: https://loom.ly/NxZY1m4