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 […]
A Washington Post poll released Monday found that 71% of Americans have heard “little” or “nothing at all” about the Inflation Reduction Act, the centerpiece of the Biden administration’s efforts to slash planet-warming emissions by boosting clean energy. The Post piece holds the administration itself responsible for the lack of public awareness, even as it […]
Donald Trump is not the only one whose legal problems got worse this week. On Monday, four US senators urged US Attorney General Merrick Garland to sue fossil fuel companies for decades of lying about climate change that have “wreak[ed] catastrophic damage upon the United States [in the form of] floods, droughts, extreme weather disturbances, […]
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The Associated Press and Grist have launched “Climate Connections,” a collaboration focusing on how climate change is projected to affect human health around the world. The two news organizations will co-publish six stories across July and August investigating diseases including malaria, cholera, and tick-borne illnesses — all of which are set to affect more people […]
When John Kerry, the US special presidential envoy for climate, arrived in Beijing on Tuesday, a weather station in western China recorded a staggering 52.2 degrees Celsius temperature, an all-time record. Globally, hundreds of millions of people are enduring similarly brutal heat. Media coverage has been extensive, and the best of it has made the […]
Christiana Figueres, the Costa Rican diplomat who brokered the 2015 Paris Agreement, has had enough. “I thought fossil fuel firms could change. I was wrong,” declares the headline of a powerful article she published on July 6 in Al Jazeera. Coming from such a mainstream climate luminary, Figueres’s change of heart cries out for follow […]
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Sign up to receive our weekly newsletter “When heat comes, it’s invisible,” opens Jeff Goodell’s new book, The Heat Will Kill You First. The veteran journalist and Rolling Stone correspondent makes a searing case that most of us think about extreme heat all wrong, and to disastrous effect. Like his previous book, The Water Will […]
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