“Let’s be realistic.” That’s the advice coming from a growing number of voices in climate circles in the US. In October, billionaire Bill Gates argued that a global temperature rise of 2 degrees Celsius is unavoidable and not a “super bad outcome” — a view unlikely to be shared by the millions of people whose […]
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: Disappearing Traditions and Heritage Just as climate change puts our future at risk, it also threatens our connections to the past. […]
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“Petrostate” is a term usually applied to countries like Saudi Arabia, Russia, or Nigeria, where the production and, crucially, the export of oil and gas are fundamental to the domestic economy and foreign policy. Rarely, however, is the term applied to the world’s oldest, richest, and mightiest petrostate. That distinction belongs to the US, which […]
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. […]
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. Thank You, From the Locally Sourced Team It’s been a year. 2025 brought yet more examples of the climate consequences of our carbon […]
A holiday gift from Covering Climate Now: some reasons to be grateful as we round out this year and head into the next. We read the headlines like everyone else, and we know that this year has been rough for climate progress – in the US, around the world, and in hundreds of devastated local […]
“You must listen to the science,” Chris Packham, the veteran presenter of BBC nature shows, implored an audience a stone’s throw from the Houses of Parliament. An invitation-only crowd of about a thousand people, including more than 100 Members of Parliament, news executives, celebrities, and civil society leaders sat before him, joined by a live-streaming audience. […]
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. […]
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Story Spark: Deforestation In 2024, nearly 8.1 million hectares of forest were permanently lost around the world — an area roughly half the size of England. Though annual deforestation rates have almost halved since 1990, experts say the world is far off track to meet a target pledged four years ago during COP26 to halt […]