Europe

July 15, 2025

DEADLINE: CEI SEEMO Award for Outstanding Merits in Investigative Journalism

The 2025 Central European Initiative and the South East Europe Media Organisation award seeks to highlight the role of investigative journalism in raising public awareness of critical issues such as human rights violations, social discrimination, corruption, gender inequality, environmental threats. Cash prizes. Enter by Jul 15.

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"A Heat Wave Covers Much Of Europe And Higher Temperatures Are On The Way"

"A heat wave covered much of Europe on Monday, with a record-hot first day of play at Wimbledon and high winds fanning forest fires in Turkey. Heat warnings were issued for parts of Spain, Portugal, Italy, Germany and the U.K., with new highs expected on Wednesday before rain should bring respite to some areas."

Source: AP, 07/01/2025

"EU Suspends Anti-Greenwashing Legislation As Far-Right Influence Grows"

"The European Union’s leadership in the fight against climate change is under increasing pressure as far-right forces gain influence and threaten its flagship Green Deal, which legally mandates the bloc to achieve climate neutrality by 2050."

Source: AP, 06/26/2025

Rethinking Forest Management in the Pyrocene

Recent urban-interface infernos, fueled by climate change, leave no doubt that we have entered the age of runaway fire. Writer and ecologist Lauren Oakes writes that large-scale combustion is permanently reshaping ecosystems and societies as we learn to live with wildfire, not just fight it. Instead of perpetuating problematic approaches to forest management, experts call for confronting the root causes of this crisis and adopting science-informed responses.

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July 21, 2025

DEADLINE: World Food Forum Youth Film Festival

The World Food Forum's Global Youth Action Initiative invites fiction and non-fiction entries to this global short film competition. Filmmakers must be 18-39 years old. Winning films may be screened at the festival in Rome from Oct 13-17, 2025. Cash prizes. Enter by Jul 21.

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"On Ireland’s Peat Bogs: Climate Action Clashes With Tradition – In Pictures"

"Bord na Móna, which was once a peat extraction company, has now committed to one of the largest peatland restoration projects ever undertaken, targeting 33,000 hectares in over 80 bogs with the hope of reducing carbon emissions and increasing biodiversity. But many households still continue to cut turf, relying on it for heating as have previous generations."

Photographs by Clodagh Kilcoyne for Reuters June 15, 2025.

Source: Reuters, 06/16/2025
June 3, 2025

GIJN Webinar: Behind the Data — Tools and Techniques From the 2025 Sigma Award Winners

Moderated by journalist and newsroom leader Gina Chua, this Global Investigative Journalism Network session offers a unique, behind-the-scenes look at the workflows powering award-winning journalism featuring groundbreaking investigations (many of them environmental) from around the globe. 9 a.m. ET.

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#SEJSpotlight: Anzula Jafarova, Senior Director, 24media.az; Lecturer, Baku State University

Meet SEJ member Anzula Jafarova! Anzula is a journalist, editor and lecturer specializing in international data journalism. She is the director and chief editor of 24media.az, the first platform in Azerbaijan where students from different universities collaborate to produce news content. At Baku State University, Anzula teaches journalism fundamentals, focusing on news reporting, editing and data-driven storytelling.

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