“There will be people who die.” That stark warning came last week from Daniel Swain, a climate scientist at the University of California, Los Angeles, after US president Donald Trump sought to fire more than 800 employees of NOAA, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. As a former TV weathercaster myself, I know the same […]
This piece originally appeared in the Guardian. Last week, as the Sunset fire was bearing down on her Los Angeles home, Allison Agsten approached a group of television news crews gathering in her neighborhood. Did any of them plan to mention the role of the climate crisis in their reporting? The question was professional as well as personal for Agsten, […]
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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: Local Climate Action Climate action is lagging at the national level across the […]
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“The End of Germany’s Climate Crusade.” That’s how a Politico headline last week described the country’s national elections held this past Sunday. The election was still days away, but opinion polls had already made clear that “one of the world’s most climate-ambitious governments will fall,” Karl Mathiesen wrote. Sure enough, the center-left Social Democratic party […]
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As US president Donald Trump continues to bar the Associated Press from the Oval Office and Air Force One for not mimicking his new name for the Gulf of Mexico, the press faces a defining challenge. Will news organizations defend the AP’s clear First Amendment right to report the news free of government interference, or […]
Bienvenido/a a Fuentes Locales, un boletín quincenal de Covering Climate Now dirigido a periodistas que cubren la crisis climática a nivel local. Comparte este boletín con colegas y estudiantes de periodismo interesados en hacer historias locales sobre la crisis climática para sus comunidades. Read Locally Sourced in English. Una idea para tus historias: Olas de […]
Inscribirse para recibir el boletín Poder y Progreso. Durante 2024, nuestro boletín El Clima en la Boleta destacó el papel del cambio climático en casi todos los temas electorales, desde la frontera, hasta la inflación y los derechos de las mujeres. Este año, analizaremos cómo estos líderes electos están afectando la acción por el clima […]
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