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Say hello to the 2026-27 class of @niemanfdn Fellows! Including @jpbarrientosh, @photobracken, @grahambrewer, @caraNYT, @george_butler, @hiloglazer, @BenjiSJones, @romina_mella, @rowanmg, @nakashimae, @jangelooff, @moniango, @Oks_Parafeniuk, @vipasquet, @kcecireyes, @HarrietTorry, and @ClaudiaUceda nieman.harvard.edu/the-niema…

Huge congrats to @BenjiSJones! What a cool opportunity nieman.harvard.edu/the-niema…

Here’s a weird fact: Every time someone buys an assault weapon (or any gun) in the US, such as an AR-15, they’re inadvertently funding wildlife conservation. I wrote about an obscure law that makes state wildlife agencies deeply dependent on gun sales. vox.com/climate/487146/wildl…

.@voxdotcom Future Perfect is hiring three fellows. If you want to spend a year writing about the biggest stories the media is missing — AI, global health, animal welfare, catastrophic risk — apply by May 12. Fellowships begin in July, remote option. job-boards.greenhouse.io/vox…

🚨Just launched: @voxdotcom's most ambitious biodiversity project of the year. @BenjiSJones went to Madagascar to find out what it takes to save one of the world’s most unique ecosystems — and learned that the answer begins with putting people first. vox.com/climate/464953/madag…

Great story from @BenjiSJones on how wind energy took off in Iowa: vox.com/climate/407981/wind-…

One way to assess your emotional state, according to my therapist: Imagine you open a kitchen cabinet and everything — tupperware, mixing bowls, etc. — comes tumbling out. How do you react? Would you scream? Cry? Laugh it off and calmly put things back? Honestly very helpful.

This is a big deal — corals in Florida and throughout much of the Caribbean are not producing babies anymore. Sexual reproduction is failing. That means coral reefs will start failing too. vox.com/down-to-earth/395569…

Scooplet: The Fish and Wildlife Service has issued stop work orders, frozen funding, and ceased communication for all of its international grants, jeopardizing critical conservation overseas. Much of this money is appropriated for Interior, not foreign aid.vox.com/down-to-earth/399957…

A tiny endangered lizard is set to test the Trump administration's "drill, baby, drill" agenda — and what it means for the nation's most imperiled species. Meet the dunes sagebrush lizard. It lives in the largest oil producing region of the country. vox.com/down-to-earth/398926…

We are hiring a Design Director for @highcountrynews! This person will get to work with the most talented and big-hearted journalists in the West. Could this be you or someone you know? classifieds.hcn.org/denver/e…

I looked at these contracts and I have my own fun fact. This is occurring because agencies (not just USAID) are buying subscriptions to Politico's Pro editorial product, not because Politico is getting grants or other federal funding.

FYI: USAID has been one of the world's largest and most important funders of global biodiversity conservation — a chronically underfunded area. It has supported efforts to protect forests, reduce illegal wildlife trafficking, and end violence towards environmental defenders.

NEW: Florida’s reef-building corals are no longer having babies, threatening the future of the largest reef in the continental US. vox.com/down-to-earth/395569…