Writing in The New York Times on May 28, journalist Masha Gessen recalled feeling “shocked many times” while “living in and reporting on Russia when Vladimir Putin took and consolidated power”. But as one outrage followed another and another ad infinitum, “the state of shock would last a day or a week or a month, […]
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Donald Trump often disparages former US president Joe Biden’s climate and energy policies, but last week demonstrated that Trump and Biden agree on something unexpected: nuclear power. Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act boosted nuclear power, which Biden framed as a climate solution because splitting atoms doesn’t release planet-warming gases like burning coal does. Trump, for his […]
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Hello, We want to make sure you saw that dozens of Covering Climate Now’s partner news outlets are breaking one of the biggest climate change stories in years. On April 22, Earth Day, leading newspapers, magazines, TV networks, and digital news sites in the US and 23 other countries launched an initiative organized by Covering […]
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