Thousand-year-old forests now get only a decade or less between fires to recover. California’s forests are “never going to get a chance to become old-growth forest again”. buff.ly/3JSpn4i

"Beauty and violence exist in tandem because we will it so," writes Katy Kelleher ti.me/41UPrSm

The IUCN Red List is a critical indicator of the health of the world’s #biodiversity, and a powerful tool to help implement the Global Biodiversity Framework. bit.ly/440eXam #KMGBF

The Women Photograph Mentorship Program is open for applications! We've reimagined the program and this year will pair 5 early career photographers with a mentor + provide $2,000 to support the production of a photo project. Read more + apply by May 31! womenphotograph.com/mentorship-app…

Annie Ernaux Has Broken Every Taboo of What Women Are Allowed to Write nytimes.com/2023/05/02/mag…

“But photojournalists and media scholars warned that the use of AI-generated images could undermine Amnesty’s own work and feed conspiracy theories.” Amnesty International criticised for using AI-generated images | Colombia | The Guardian theguardian.com/world/2023/may…

200 schools across Rwanda Tz & Kenya now watch Team Sayari in school. The entertaining nature series features 11 junior presenters, & dozens of African conservation scientists fm 5 African countries where it was shot. Educating children is a strategy of @WildlifeDirect to create

Lots of folks are learning about Corky Lee because he's the Google Doodle of the day. As it happens, a bunch of 4th graders in LA have been studying his work for the last few months and today put up an art installation inspired by the late photographer and activist.

The little-known Nevada company making millions off the western water shortage apple.news/AmtZPwG0nR4q-y…

A reminder that Elsevier made $10.5 BILLION in 2022 from selling your academic journals and articles behind paywalls, and make more profit than Amazon, Google, and Apple every year… And paid the academics who wrote the articles $0 And paid the reviewers of the articles $0

If you are #climate journalist, check out this fabulous fellowship to see new breakthrough solutions in #Israel! Join with leaders from 8o+ countries at the OurCrowd summit 2024 as well! jerusalempressclub.com/fellowship-202…

“I feel we have no rights and dignity” What life is like at the factory that made your iPhone restofworld.org/2023/foxconn-i…

Unpaid internships harm industries as a whole and disproportionately favor those from higher income brackets. This does not diversify nor support the talent pipeline into journalism. Do better, FOX2now and Nexstar Media Group, Inc..

Really important project happening in STL that monitors air pollution on urban farms on North St. Louis. “Monitoring air quality can determine if crops will be healthy to consume, said Thi Nguyen, co-founder of Climate Changents.”

📢A reminder: The New York Times are partnering with ACOS to open up their in-house safety training in NYC to a limited number of freelancers. This 4-day A.R.T School in June will help journalists more safely pursue aggressive, adversarial reporting. Info & apply: bit.ly/3Mh9R1x

🌊 Applications are open for the Ocean Reporting Network (ORN)! ORN will support, for one year, at least eight full-time Fellows across the globe. ORN will better equip journalists with research capacity, data skills, and editorial mentorship. Learn more in the 🧵 1/4👇

“When you start to imagine a street, a block, a neighborhood, and a city or a community as a whole with several green roofs, then you have something. Because it’s about the collective.” Mine for Undark Magazine, on beating the heat in favelas with green roofs. undark.org/2023/05/22/in-…

#Photojournalists 📸📹, what are the things u wish non-visual journalists (writers, editors, producers, broadcast reporters) working with you or in your newsroom knew about visual #journalism? What should they know about collaborating with u and about the craft? #training NPPA

Marie D. De Jesús 🇵🇷 NPPA Don’t forget that visual journalism is still journalism first. We want to witness as much of the story as you, so we’d much rather get in on the ground floor of the story rather than being asked for art after you’re done with your part of the reporting.

Starting today, St. Louis city employees must wear masks indoors. St. Louis health officials are again recommending that residents wear masks as cases of COVID-19 and other respiratory viruses rise throughout the region. hdlne.me/https://www.st…