The “Climate Changes Everything: Creating A Blueprint For Media Transformation” conference last week at Columbia Journalism School in New York City was a roaring success on all levels. If you missed it, watch the livestream here. Meanwhile, a few highlights: Our live interview with former UNFCCC executive secretary Christiana Figueres made news around the world. […]
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Climate Week NYC started with a bang this year as tens of thousands of people took to the streets of New York to pressure world leaders to end the use of fossil fuels. As the climate crisis accelerates, and the public’s outcry grows more insistent, the US’s paper of record met the moment: On Monday, […]
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The global journalism collaboration Covering Climate Now today announced the winners of the 2023 Covering Climate Now Journalism Awards, which are rapidly becoming the industry standard of excellence in climate journalism. More than 100 distinguished journalists from around the world chose the 2023 winners from nearly 1,100 entries submitted by colleagues in 29 countries. See […]
An overheated planet is “even more frightening than a nuclear war,” US president Joe Biden said on Sunday in a remark that’s gotten less news coverage than it deserves. Responding to a question from Agence France-Presse White House correspondent Aurelia End following Biden’s visit to Vietnam, the president added that if global temperatures over the […]
If climate change is the biggest news story of our time, then the 2024 elections should be the biggest politics story of our time. 2024 will bring elections — not only in the United States but also the United Kingdom, the European Union, India, Indonesia, Mexico, and more — that will profoundly affect humanity’s chances of preserving […]
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“This is only the first sip, the first foretaste, of a bitter cup which will be proffered to us year by year until … [we] connect the dots,” Al Gore said 18 years ago this week. With waves 10 to 19 feet tall, Hurricane Katrina blasted into New Orleans on August 29, 2005, putting 80% […]
The reality about climate change is not hard to find. Yet pernicious myths about its causes, dangers, and solutions still permeate too much reporting. Indeed, these myths keep some reporting from happening at all, such as when coverage fails to connect extreme weather to climate change and the burning of fossil fuels. One reason for […]
Together, a thousand journalists can accomplish a lot. Ugandan journalist Fredrick Mugira is the founder of Water Journalists Africa, an extensive journalism collaboration with members in fifty African countries. Mugira and his Water Journalists Africa colleagues survey members regularly on emerging stories in their region. In 2020, they noticed an alarming trend: from East Africa, […]
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The horrific fires on Maui this week offer journalists a chance to explain how those fires are connected to the global climate story. Indeed, this year’s record heat, fires, and flooding around the world are all climatic cousins — related by way of climate change. But it’s not enough to report that climate change helps […]