Each month, Covering Climate Now speaks with a different journalist about their experiences on the climate beat, their reporting tips, and their ideas for pushing our profession and craft forward. This month, we spoke with John Mecklin, editor in chief of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. The Bulletin, founded in 1945 to focus on […]
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Sign up to receive our weekly newsletter “Human-induced climate change and the war on Ukraine have the same roots: fossil fuels and our dependence on them.” So said climate scientist Svitlana Krakovska, the head of Ukraine’s delegation, at a session of the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s (IPCC) Working Group II, according to The […]
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Tonight, before a joint session of Congress, President Joe Biden will deliver his first State of the Union address. The backdrop is a frightening new war in Europe, which the president has described as a “brutal” and “unjustifiable” assault on the people of Ukraine. In a moment of great uncertainty, it will be on Biden […]
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There is great anticipation, but not much suspense, about the next big United Nations climate science report being released on Monday, February 28. Much of the news will be grim. What’s more, the report will have to compete for space in the news agenda with the Ukraine invasion and Russian president Vladimir Putin’s apparent threat […]
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Sign up to receive our weekly newsletter. At noon today, CCNow and Scientific American are co-sponsoring a briefing for journalists on a little-known scientific development that carries paradigm-shifting implications for how people, especially young people, feel about the climate crisis and how governments and societies respond to it. Climate scientists Michael Mann of Penn State University […]
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Last Friday, as speculation that Russia was preparing to invade Ukraine mounted, ABC News reported that “the specter of a military confrontation” was “pumping fresh life into the debate over whether president Joe Biden’s climate agenda is brushing up against difficult geopolitical realities.” The story, which was produced by the network’s newly formed climate unit […]
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Sign up to receive our weekly newsletter. If you’re not scared by climate change, you’re not paying attention. But fear alone, unleavened by the knowledge that this crisis can be fixed, is bad both for people and the planet. Fear can easily spiral human beings into anxiety and despair, which paralyzes them from the civic and […]
Each month, Covering Climate Now speaks with a different journalist about their experiences on the climate beat, their reporting tips, and their ideas for pushing our profession and craft forward. This month, we spoke with Giles Trendle, who is the managing director of Al Jazeera English. From Al Jazeera’s offices in Doha, Qatar, Trendle oversees […]
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Sign up to receive our weekly newsletter. No matter your favorite news source, you’ve probably been seeing more stories on climate change lately. A new report by the Media and Climate Change Observatory at the University of Colorado Boulder, which monitors newspaper, radio, and TV reporting in 59 countries, finds that 2021 saw the highest […]