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Climate AwarenessThe British government has launched a new Flood and Drought Resilience Taskforce, putting the voices of affected communities at the centre of the country's fight against extreme weather. The taskforce meets for the first time this Wednesday, 14 October 2026, bringing Floods and Drought Minister Emma Hardy together with representatives from more than 50 organisations.
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Climate AwarenessThe Philippines' Department of Education is embedding climate literacy across basic education — from kindergarten to high school — while preparing schools for extreme heat and the anticipated El Niño.
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Climate AwarenessCalifornia signed SB 1048 creating a Seal of Climate Literacy on high school diplomas, joining Colorado, Maine and a growing US movement linking coursework and community projects to green careers.
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Climate AwarenessCanberra — Local politicians across Australia seriously underestimate how strongly the public wants climate action, according to new research from the University of Queensland released this week — a perception gap the authors warn could hold back climate policy just weeks before the COP31 climate talks open in Antalya, Türkiye. The study, published in the
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Climate AwarenessThe EU's Education for Climate Coalition has opened registration for Education for Climate Day 2026 on 22 October, themed on intergenerational fairness and climate education — online participation is now open.
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Climate AwarenessCNN has rescheduled its sixth Call to Earth Day to 3 December 2026. Themed "Think Blue", the global day of ocean-focused climate action counts more than one million registered participants.
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Climate AwarenessGovernor Gavin Newsom signed SB 1048 on 29 September 2026, creating a California State Seal of Climate Literacy for high school diplomas; Colorado's 2024 seal has reached 26 districts, Maine adopted its own this year, and youth coalitions are pushing in Hawaii and Minnesota.
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Climate AwarenessLONDON — More than one million people have signed up to take part in the sixth edition of CNN’s Call to Earth Day on 8 October 2026, according to CNN International Commercial. This year’s theme, “Think Blue”, puts the ocean — described by the organizers as the force that connects every country, coastline and community
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Climate AwarenessThe Office for Climate Education has announced the fifth Teachers' COP for COP31 in Antalya — while warning only 3–7% of young people receive quality climate education.
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Climate AwarenessOatly, the world's largest oat milk producer, is printing Covering Climate Now's 89 Percent Project message on its cartons, telling shoppers the vast majority of people want governments to act on climate change.
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Climate AwarenessMore than one million people have signed up for CNN's Call to Earth Day on 8 October 2026, the sixth edition of the global day of action, this year dedicated to the ocean under the theme 'Think Blue'.
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Climate AwarenessExtreme heat from the record El Niño could cause about 451,000 excess deaths worldwide by February 2027, the Climate Impact Lab projects — with Nigeria, Indonesia and Sudan hardest hit.
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The Ocean Cleanup will make Australia and Asia-Pacific its primary focus, directing two-thirds of its effort to Southeast Asia — source of 79% of ocean plastic reaching Australia — while urging 'action and cash' ahead of COP31.
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ClimateGreen JournalismCANADA. The Equality Fund has opened applications for its inaugural Journalism Fellowship, a new opportunity designed to support working journalists in Global South countries who report on local solutions to global crises — including the climate crisis — through a gender lens. The fellowship, launched in partnership with Canadian Journalists for Free Expression (CJFE) and
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Green JournalismThe Solutions Journalism Network and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have opened applications for the SJN/MIT Climate Journalism Fellowship 2027, an eight-month programme that will give ten local and regional U.S. journalists a $7,500 stipend each to report on climate solutions in their own communities. Applications close at midnight on 26 October 2026. What the
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Green JournalismAwareness article: Climate reporting is one of the most dangerous beats in modern journalism. UNESCO data shows that environmental journalists are attacked, threatened and in some cases killed for their work — and that protecting the press is a prerequisite for protecting the planet. Journalists who investigate illegal logging, poaching, pollution and the climate crisis
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Green JournalismWASHINGTON – The Washington Post’s sweeping investigation into the world’s rising flood danger, Floods Above, has won the inaugural Poynter Journalism Prize for Excellence in Climate Change Reporting, a new award for scientifically grounded climate journalism announced by the Poynter Institute. The prize, sponsored by the Hennecke Family Foundation, recognizes rigorous reporting that enlightens and
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Green JournalismLECCE: Italy's Euro-Mediterranean Center on Climate Change (CMCC) has named Agence France-Presse's "Future of the Planet" desk and Sky TG24 Deputy Editor-in-Chief Daniele Moretti as the winners of the 2026 Romeo Bassoli Award for scientific journalism on climate and sustainability. The prize will be presented on Thursday, 15 October, in Lecce during the Conversazioni sul
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Green JournalismThe European Parliament has shortlisted ten investigations — including probes into data centres' environmental toll and green investment funds — for the 2026 Daphne Caruana Galizia Journalism Prize. The winner is announced on 21 October in Strasbourg.
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Green JournalismWUFT's Rose Schnabel and the Miami Herald's 'Built on Sand' series share the 2026 Waldo Proffitt Award for outstanding environmental journalism, announced 2 October.
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Green JournalismA new international planetary health journalism prize is calling on journalists to report one of the least-covered intersections in climate coverage: how demographic change shapes the health of the planet — and vice versa. The Demographics & Planetary Health Story Prize 2026, hosted by Johns Hopkins University institutions, will award $500 in each of two
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