Climate Change Leaves Fingerprints

Friederike Otto is a leading practitioner of arguably the most important development in climate science in many years: attribution science. Specialists like Otto can now calculate how much responsibility man-made global heating has for a given extreme weather event. The brutal heat wave that scorched India and Pakistan in 2022, for example, was made 30 […]

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Covering Shoreline Loss

Waves hitting cliffs and coastside

Welcome to Locally Sourced, a biweekly Covering Climate Now newsletter for journalists working to localize the climate story. Share this newsletter with colleagues and journalism students interested in localizing the climate story. Vea la versión en español de “Fuentes Locales.” Story Spark: Shoreline Loss Over a billion people, roughly 15% of the world’s population, live […]

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“The World Wants Change”

Protester holds up sign before wall of anti-riot police

“You are not alone. Far from it. If you are concerned about the climate crisis and want your national government to do something about it, you are part of an enormous global majority.” So wrote Jonathan Watts in a piece Sumaúma published on Monday declaring that the Amazon-based news outlet was joining Covering Climate Now’s […]

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Wildfires and Air Quality

Wildfire tears through mountainous terrain

Sign up for Climate at the Border.  Hola, welcome to Climate at the Border! We’re here to help you cover the most pressing climate issues in the region. In each edition, we’ll bring you what you need to know to get started and make recommendations for localizing, humanizing, and reporting solutions on the topic.  Inscribirse […]

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Taking Big Oil to Court

Coal plant spewing pollution into the air

Sign up for Power & Progress. In Power & Progress, we analyze how elected leaders are impacting global climate action, and the economic and societal power dynamics at play. How does power impede and propel progress? How do movements for progress build and use power? Vea la versión en español de “Poder y Progreso.” Taking […]

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Breaking the 89 Percent Story

Protesters demonstrate for climate action at the COP27 Climate Summit in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt

Climate journalists around the world broke a big story last week. “Broke” may seem a strange word for a story that involved no investigative sleuthing or insider revelations. But “breaking news” can also apply to delivering people with information about the world around them that’s new to them. That’s what dozens of major newspapers, magazines, […]

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