Sign up to receive our weekly newsletter The Biden administration’s proposal to slash planet-warming pollution from electric power plants is a landmark development in the climate story. Announced today by the Environmental Protection Agency, Biden’s plan aims to “effectively eliminate carbon dioxide emissions from the nation’s electricity sector by 2040,” The New York Times reported. Certain […]
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Reporting on Climate Injustice in the Horn of Africa
Sign up to receive our weekly newsletter “Every person on Earth today is living in a crime scene,” Covering Climate Now’s executive director Mark Hertsgaard wrote in 2021 at the launch of the Guardian’s “Climate Crimes” reporting series. “The fossil fuel industry’s 40 years of lying about climate change,” he added, “have… blunt[ed] public awareness and […]
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Q&A: BBC’s Climate Lead, Justin Rowlatt, Finds More Room for Hope in Climate Storytelling
Globally, more people than ever consider climate change an urgent priority. Studies regularly show, however, that their understanding of climate change and its solutions lags behind their concern. So, how can journalists do their part? Justin Rowlatt, climate editor for the BBC, has been tuned into the climate story since making a name for himself […]
Climate Activists to Disrupt White House Correspondents’ Dinner
This Saturday at the Washington Hilton hotel, climate activists plan to blockade the annual White House Correspondents’ Dinner. No, not to demand the firing of climate deniers like now-former FOX host Tucker Carlson. Young militants with the group Climate Defiance make a more systemic critique, accusing the media as a whole of not treating climate […]
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A “Map of Climate Optimism” for Earth Week
Sign up to receive our weekly newsletter. Solutions to the climate emergency come in all shapes and sizes. But some (we call them “super solutions”) are much stronger than others, a key point for journalists to convey this Earth Week, and beyond. Kudos to Damian Carrington, whose close reading of the IPCC’s Sixth Assessment Report […]
Climate Math for Dummies
Sign up to receive our weekly newsletter The climate crisis, Bill McKibben writes in the April issue of Rolling Stone, is “at heart, a math problem.” The atmosphere, he points out, “can only hold so much carbon before it overheats the Earth. Think of it as a one-gallon bucket: If you put more than a gallon […]
Gearing Up for Earth Day? Cover the “Super Solutions” That Are Ready to Go Now
Sign up to receive our weekly newsletter In February, Covering Climate Now urged newsrooms to make the most of this month’s Earth Day coverage by reporting on what we call “Super Solutions” – climate fixes that are likely to make the biggest difference in the least amount of time. Speed, after all, was an unmistakable theme […]
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Q&A: Floodlight’s Amal Ahmed covers Texas communities on the climate story’s front lines
As climate investments from the Inflation Reduction Act begin rolling out, important conversations about climate change and energy are bubbling up in communities across the US. With this in mind, Covering Climate Now spoke with a reporter who covered climate from Texas, a state where climate and energy have long been center-stage. Amal Ahmed is […]
Q&A: Heatmap Founder Wants to Do for Climate What Wired Did for Tech
Each month, Covering Climate Now speaks with different journalists about their experiences on the climate beat and ideas for pushing our craft forward. This week, we spoke with Nico Lauricella, founder and editor in chief of the new climate journalism site Heatmap. Prior to Heatmap, Lauricella was editor in chief of The Week online. Heatmap launched earlier this month, with […]
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