UNESCO MAB Young Scientist Awards 2026: Up to $5,000 for Early-Career Researchers in Biodiversity & Sustainability (Deadline: May 7)

Here is a question for the early-career researchers reading this. Have you ever felt like the big grants are only for senior professors with decades of experience and massive teams behind them? The UNESCO Man and the Biosphere (MAB) Young Scientist Awards exist specifically to solve that problem. They were created in 1989 over 35 years ago,…

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Pulitzer Center Offers $2,000–$3,500 Seed Grants for African Educators Tackling Climate and Ocean Crises.

Lecturers, researchers, K-12 teachers, and student groups across Africa can apply by April 15, 2026. The Pulitzer Center is putting money behind the power of education. Through its Impact Seed Funding (ISF) initiative, the organization is offering micro-grants ranging from $2,000 to $3,500 to educators and researchers across Africa who want to bring urgent environmental stories into their classrooms,…

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Donors just gave $3.9 billion to a major climate fund. That’s $1.4 billion less than last time.

The Global Environment Facility needed more. But war, inflation, and shifting politics got in the way. You might have missed the news. Late last week, the Global Environment Facility (GEF), one of those big multilateral funds that most people have never heard of but that actually channels billions into protecting forests, cleaning up oceans, and…

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