Category: Updates

Dirty Data Study Group | In the Dark: Data Center Spillover in Asia

Our second Study Group last Friday brought together journalists Gerry Flynn (Mongabay) and Nicole Lim (Kontenitalist) to share insights from their reporting in Thailand, Singapore, and Malaysia while working on the ERC’s Dirty Data series.

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ERC Calls for Reinstatement of Instagram Reel Restricted in India

The Environmental Reporting Collective (ERC) expresses serious concern over the lack of transparency surrounding Meta’s decision to block access in India to an Instagram reel connected to our cross-border investigation into the environmental and social impacts of data center expansion.

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COP27: This is no time for apathy or complacency; the urgency of the moment is upon us

ERC joins the Guardian's editorial on COP27, calling for action from world leaders on the climate crisis along with more than 30 media organisations in more than 20 countries.

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Countries fail to agree on Antarctic conservation measures for fifth straight year

For the fifth year in a row, a council of nations involved in Antarctic fishing operations have failed to agree on new conservation measures which experts had hoped would protect the Southern Ocean from overfishing, particularly of the keystone krill species.

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Announcing the ERC Training Grants

NOTE: GRANT APPLICATIONS ARE CLOSED FOR 2023 The Environmental Reporting Collective are offering training grants for journalists and newsrooms to organise self-tailored training programmes for themselves, but which are also open to other ERC partner newsrooms and journalists. Grantees will organise the training themselves, with assistance from the ERC Core Team. We’re offering three grants […]

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Call for Applications: ERC Collaborative Reporting Grants

Applications for our Collaborative Reporting Grants are now open. The deadline is August 15th, 2023. The Environmental Reporting Collective (ERC) is now again accepting applications for its Collaborative Reporting Grants to support journalists working together on tracing environmental crimes across borders. In 2022, ERC supported nine teams of reporters working from more than a dozen […]

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Announcing Oceans Inc, our latest cross-border investigative collaboration

We’re pleased to announce the publication of the first story in our latest collaborative cross-border investigation, Oceans Inc.

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We asked 50 journalists in Asia how they’d improve environmental journalism. Here’s what they had to say

By Ryan Ho Kilpatrick Environmental journalists foreshadowed the dangers of zoonotic diseases and alerted us to the perils of climate change that are now part of our lives. But writers of environmental news see vital areas for improvement. According to a survey of environmentalist journalists mostly based in Asia by the Environmental Reporting Collective, the […]

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Chinese courts treat pangolin offenders lightly

A data investigation by #WildEye Asia exposes lenient punishments for pangolin offences in China. Such sentences are unlikely to deter illegal trade. Data collated by #WildEye Asia shows that, of the 34 criminals convicted of pangolin-related crimes since late 2019, close to half were given suspended sentences of less than a year. This meant they did […]

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A plea: ‘Open up the borders (for journalism)!’

Op-ed by Gie Goris and Jago Kosolosky, current and future editor-in-chief of MO*, Belgium. Late last year, MO* under the leadership of Gie published The Pangolin Reports in Flemish. On Aug. 1, 2020, Jago will take over the helm from Gie as editor-in-chief of MO* magazine and the news site. This op-ed first appeared on […]

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