Esta semana, nos duele el bolsillo. El encarecimiento del coste de la vida es una preocupación a nivel global, y el cambio climático está añadiendo presión. Vamos a hacer números: La escalada en intensidad e imprevisibilidad de los fenómenos meteorológicos extremos que estamos presenciando, como el calor, la sequía o la lluvia excesiva, está provocando […]
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Story Spark: River Ecology This week, we’re focusing on inland freshwater waterways, but climate change is causing problems for briny rivers as well through worsening saltwater intrusion. Check out our issue digging into how this “invisible flood” of saltwater impacts coastal communities around the world. Freshwater rivers and wetlands cover less than 1% of the […]
The unprecedented rebuke of US president Donald Trump in the midterm elections opens the door to a new era in climate policy at home and abroad. This issue of The Climate Beat offers our fellow journalists background knowledge and practical tips for covering the next episode of this new era: the COP31 UN climate summit […]
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Journalism understandably prioritizes the new: it’s called “news” for a reason. But the best journalism puts the new in context: only by knowing that temperatures were significantly lower throughout civilization’s 10,000 year history can one grasp how much higher they are today, and why that alarms scientists so much. Policy ideas also have a history, […]
LO QUE TIENES QUE SABER Vuelve la COP, como la Navidad, pero con menos ilusión. La gran cumbre anual del clima, que celebra su edición 31, no es sólo para diplomáticos: lo que se acuerde o deje de acordarse en Antalya (Turquía) entre el 9 y el 20 de noviembre va a acabar en todas […]
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Thirty-six states will vote for governors this November, and of those contests, 12 races are considered competitive, according to the nonpartisan Cook Political Report, including Alaska, Iowa, Georgia, Nevada, Ohio, Florida, and Texas, where Republicans currently hold the governor’s office. Since the first Trump administration, states with climate-minded leaders have acted as a bulwark against […]
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In a landmark piece of climate journalism, Reuters has just published a groundbreaking investigation arguing that the term “heat waves” no longer adequately captures what is happening on the planet. A better term is “heat storms,” wrote Maurice Tamman, a veteran investigative journalist who was the lead reporter on “The Age of Heat Storms” project. […]
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LO QUE TIENES QUE SABER Unos 39 millones de latinos en Estados Unidos tienen derecho a voto en las elecciones de medio mandato del 3 de noviembre, y su voto podría ser decisivo: representan el 16% del electorado y los registrados como demócratas dicen estar muy motivados para acudir a las urnas. Aunque los candidatos […]
Story Spark: Home Insurance For this issue, we’re revisiting an important topic we originally covered two years ago; in the interim, this crisis has only gotten worse. The cost of US home insurance has risen nearly 50% nationwide over the last five years as the frequency and severity of extreme weather have increased, driving up […]