• Climate change contributes to the dangerous working conditions faced by Californian farmworkers. Uprooter Jireh Deng for Sierra Club
  • https://www.sierraclub.org/sierra/2025-4-winter/feature/farmworkers-ice-coachella-valley-brave-deadly-heat-pollution-and-ice-raids?amp
• “When the EPA abruptly terminated ‘Community Change’ grants, the impacts rippled across the country. Chicago groups that won and then lost one of those grants are still feeling the impacts.” Uprooter Amber X. Chen for Inside Climate News
  • https://insideclimatenews.org/news/27122025/chicago-environmental-justice-grant-cuts/
• “In Gorongosa National Park in Mozambique, Rassina Farassi studies how humans came to walk on two legs.” Uprooter Kang-Chun Cheng for Nature
  • https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-04153-7
• In DC, “a combination of renewable energy and newly trained local employees” powers a community. Uprooter Jonathan Forney for Bay Journal
  • https://www.bayjournal.com/news/energy/independent-microgrid-empowers-dc-site-and-community-with-renewable-energy/article_b20c68ca-f9d0-4e37-85e4-b63a9307111e.html
• Even as climate change worsens suffering for people with chronic pain, “getting funding from Washington for research at the intersection of global warming and pain is virtually impossible.” Uprooter Chad Small for Inside Climate News
  • https://insideclimatenews.org/news/04012026/chronic-pain-and-climate-change/

• LOOKOUT is hiring a newsletter editor/reporter to be the primary voice of Eyes on the State, a weekly newsletter published during the AZ legislative session (Feb.–May).
  • https://app.dover.com/apply/lookoutnews/c0754765-acaa-4c0a-8c3e-53fa04973201?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email
• The 19th is hiring two Editors, one of whom will cover climate, disability and aging, education, immigration, justice and national issues.
  • https://19thnews.org/19th-news-editor-employee-hire/
• Audubon is hiring a Photo Editor to research, assign and edit photographic content for use by the National Audubon Society.
  • https://audubon.wd503.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Audubon/job/Photo-Editor_JR938
• Science Friday is hiring a Digital Communications Associate to support the production, management, and growth of Science Friday’s newsletters and digital content, as well as the day-to-day maintenance of the Science Friday website.
  • https://www.sciencefriday.com/role-digital-communications-associate/
    

• New program from South Asia Speaks: “SAS Science is a year-long program designed to support emerging science writers with one-on-one mentoring, masterclasses and workshops.” Applications open 03/01/26
  • https://southasiaspeaks.substack.com/p/sas-science-a-new-program-for-emerging
• DEADLINE EXTENDED: The deadline for the Metcalf Ocean Nexus Academy, a fellowship for journalists to work directly with ocean researchers, has been extended to Friday, 01/16/25 at 5 PM EST!
  • Details & Apply Here: https://uprootproject.org/mona-fellowship/