Each month, Covering Climate Now speaks with different journalists about their experiences on the climate beat and their ideas for pushing our craft forward. This month, we spoke with Brian Lehrer, longtime host of The Brian Lehrer Show on WNYC in New York City. Earlier this year, Lehrer’s show committed to running at least one […]
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Sign up to receive our weekly newsletter Deadly heat across Europe shattering temperature records. Firefighters battling intense wildfires across Southern Europe and the US. One hundred million Americans under heat warnings and advisories. A heatwave on the horizon for central Asia. The world is consumed by extreme heat driven by climate change, which is unfolding faster […]
Sign up to receive our weekly newsletter A new global public opinion survey offers valuable insights for journalists as we tell the climate story. The poll, conducted by the Yale Program on Climate Change Communication and Meta, underscores the media’s key role in alerting people to the climate crisis and what can be done about it. […]
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Sign up to receive our weekly newsletter Last week’s US Supreme Court decision to limit the federal government’s authority to regulate greenhouse gas emissions from power plants will unquestionably make it harder to defuse the climate emergency. It’s not game over — President Joe Biden still has an array of executive actions he can take, and […]
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The Supreme Court has just ruled to constrict the federal government’s authority to limit greenhouse gas emissions in the West Virginia v. EPA case. Today’s decision is not just a blow to Biden’s agenda, it’s a blow to humanity, given our slim timeframe to keep temperatures from rising above 1.5 degrees C and avoid the worst impacts of climate change. Guidance: We’re cautioning […]
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Each month, Covering Climate Now speaks with different journalists about their experiences on the climate beat and their ideas for pushing our craft forward. This month, as part of CCNow’s “Food & Water” coverage week, we speak with Tamar Haspel and Michael Grunwald, cohosts of the new podcast Climavores. Haspel writes about food and science […]
Sign up to receive our weekly newsletter We’re thrilled to kick off Covering Climate Now’s next joint coverage week, which runs from Monday, June 27, through Friday, July 1, and focuses on food and water. We’ve heard from hundreds of journalists who plan to participate, and we’re so grateful to have everyone aboard. We chose ‘Food […]
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The global media collaboration Covering Climate Now is proud to welcome Germany’s international broadcaster Deutsche Welle as a new partner. “The extraordinary global reach and linguistic diversity of Deutsche Welle’s news coverage combined with its journalists’ high-profile reporting on the climate emergency and its solutions exemplify the high standards Covering Climate Now is spreading throughout […]
Covering Climate Now is saddened and angered by the news that journalist Dom Phillips and Indigenous activist Bruno Pereira have been killed while working in the Amazon. We extend our condolences and solidarity to their families. Wrongdoers attack journalists because journalists are truth tellers, and the truth carries a power that nothing can kill. Phillips’s […]