“We’re seen as one of the bad guys.” That is a quote from an internal document of the oil and gas company BP, written in 2020. Climate change was by then attracting significant public concern and protest, and BP officials were asking themselves how to counter the negative perception they faced. First revealed by the […]
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Radar Clima es el boletín en español de Covering Climate Now. Cada dos semanas repasamos un tema clave para periodistas -especialistas o generalistas- desde la conexión climática y la lente de los tres pilares del periodismo climático: Humanizar, Localizar y Solucionar. No olvides hacer la conexión climática en tus historias y basarla en la ciencia. […]
The effects of a warming Earth are worsening. Climate disinformation is rampant. Wars around the world are pitting petrostates against one another. So why are much of the world’s media backsliding when it comes to the coverage of climate change? Covering Climate Now was formed in 2019 in response to the climate silence that then […]
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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. Story Spark: Severe Storms The relationship between climate change and powerful thunderstorms is complex and still evolving. But the key basics are clear: […]
War makes climate change worse in many ways, and vice versa. The human costs of the US-Israel attack on Iran — the hundreds of people who have died, including a reported 175 young girls and teachers killed at the Shajareh Tayyibeh primary school — are a tragedy. The mounting economic risks — disrupted supply chains, […]
Radar Clima es el boletín en español de Covering Climate Now. Cada dos semanas repasamos un tema clave para periodistas -especialistas o generalistas- desde la conexión climática y la lente de los tres pilares del periodismo climático: Humanizar, Localizar y Solucionar. No olvides hacer la conexión climática en tus historias y basarla en la ciencia. […]
Four years ago, The Guardian published a landmark expose that detailed a looming “carbon bomb” of oil and gas projects in the US. Damian Carrington and Matthew Taylor reported that the projects at hand included plans to explore for, drill, frack, refine, and transport enough additional oil and gas to equal 10 years of China’s […]
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. Story Spark: Battery Storage Despite being cheaper and cleaner than fossil fuels, wind and solar energy have a fundamental drawback: They’re intermittent. This […]
It was Jeff Bezos, the Amazon billionaire, who came up with the tagline “Democracy Dies in Darkness” for The Washington Post. According to a memoir by the paper’s former editor, Martin Baron, Bezos greenlit the “democracy” line after an internal staff favorite was rejected by his then-wife, MacKenzie Scott. In his book Baron admits to […]