Journalism Matters
500 news organizations mark World News Day by demonstrating the power of journalism to make a difference. Take a look at the following reports and features that are making an impact in an increasingly complex and uncertain world:
#BehindTheHeadlines: Editor’s letter to Danish journalists shot in Ukraine
Two Danish journalists are “lucky to be alive” after being shot and injured in Ukraine while reporting on Russia’s invasion of the country. Ekstra Bladet Editor-in-Chief Knud Brix tells of their ordeal.
#BehindTheHeadlines: With journalism in Creole, Mensagem de Lisboa is reaching new audiences
As part of the build up to World News Day 2022, we are showcasing journalism from around the world that has had significant social impact. Here is a story about how community-focused news outlet Mensagem de Lisboa, based in Lisbon, Portugal, has been publishing professional journalistic content in Creole since December.
#BehindTheHeadlines: Investigating death at a sobering station in Wrocław, Poland
As part of the build up to World News Day 2022, we are showcasing journalism from around the world that has had significant social impact. Here is the backstory of the investigation that won Gazeta Wyborcza reporter Jacek Harłukowicz Poland’s top prize for journalism in 2021.
Singapore’s tallest fish farm to produce 2,700 tonnes of fish a year by 2023
High-rise living is not just for humans in Singapore. An eight-storey fish farm – the tallest in Singapore and the region – started operations in the first quarter of this year.
World News Day Founder: Climate change has long been a political football, but facts are sacred and cannot be bent
Climate change has long been a political football. But while everyone is entitled to an opinion, facts are sacred and cannot be bent.
Covid crisis points to climate challenge ahead
The Covid-19 experience has made plain how difficult it will be to forge a global consensus on tackling the climate crisis. The signs of this looming challenge, and the science behind it, grow clearer by the day.
THE REWILDING PROJECT
Aotearoa New Zealand’s braided rivers are internationally significant, but they’ve been systematically strangled, and in some cases, have left behind zombie rivers. As climate change threatens to make the problems worse, some academics and scientists are re-imagining what it means to live with rivers.
Morir sin impactar al medio ambiente
La “reducción orgánica natural” transforma los restos humanos en composta. Una empresa funeraria de Seattle, Washington ofrece un ritual de despedida sustentable y más amigable con el medio ambiente
In Lisbon, yellow is the new green — and there’s no harm in that
In Lisbon, a city in southern Europe and the capital of Portugal, lawns are being replaced by meadows. In the summer, there’s no green in sight; only yellow. And that’s a good thing. In one of the city’s largest parks, Bela Vista Park, six million litres of water are saved each year.
Surviving the Sundarbans: Tales of the Delta’s Climate Refugees
As the home of the famous Royal Bengal Tiger, the Sundarbans sinks at an alarming rate as a result of climate change, it is the residents of the delta who stand on the frontlines of this war. While some of them have already lost their homes and livelihoods, others are on the verge of it. Debates rage on, fingers are pointed, but it is these climate refugees, among society’s most marginalised, who are paying the price.
China’s carbon neutral goal needs a lot of heavy lifting by industries
The fourth part of a series on China’s carbon neutrality goal examines the heavy lifting that must be done by the country’s biggest carbon dioxide emitters to reach that target by 2060.
Carbon neutrality: China sowing seeds of change to meet 2060 target
This third part of a series on China’s carbon neutrality goal looks at the social transformations and technological hurdles along the path to meet the government’s target in 2060.