Did you know that the average household in the United States has a new “bank account” of $8,000 to spend on clean energy, thanks to the Inflation Reduction Act? Or that irreversible tipping points, notably in the Amazon rainforest, are approaching much faster than scientists had expected? And that 2023 will bring much more extreme […]
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Q&A: Ajit Niranjan Talks Climate Solutions and One ‘Incredibly Overlooked’ Tool for Journalists
Each month, Covering Climate Now speaks with different journalists about their experiences on the climate beat and their ideas for pushing our craft forward. This week, we spoke with Ajit Niranjan, a British freelance climate correspondent and frequent contributor to Germany’s Deutsche Welle. We talked about improving journalism’s approach to climate solutions, simplifying how we […]
Capitol Hill Chaos and the Climate Story
Greta Thunberg takes no prisoners. In one of the most popular tweets ever, the renowned climate activist, on December 28, scorched Andrew Tate, a kickboxer who had bragged about the “enormous emissions” of his 33 sports cars and requested her email address so he could send details. “yes, please do enlighten me,” Thunberg replied, “email […]
Biodiversity Has a Paris Agreement Moment
Paris Agreement, meet Montreal Framework. What UN Secretary-General António Guterres hailed as a “peace pact with nature” caps a year of huge developments in the climate story. On Monday, almost every country in the world — though not the United States — approved the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework, as it is officially named. The deal […]
Climate Change Is a Local Story
Global temperature rise, international climate conferences, Arctic glacier melts. In those terms, climate change can feel abstract and distant. But to understand how climate change is impacting people, we have to examine it at the local level. That makes local journalism indispensable to telling the climate story — and it’s why Covering Climate Now is […]
Q&A: Mary Annaïse Heglar Talks Hot Take Podcast and How Climate Journalism Can Shape Up in 2023
EACH MONTH, Covering Climate Now speaks with different journalists about their experiences on the climate beat and their ideas for pushing our craft forward. This week, we spoke with Mary Annaïse Heglar, who cohosts the climate podcast Hot Take with Amy Westervelt. Heglar’s writing has appeared in The Nation, The New Republic, Rolling Stone, Wired, […]
The Boston Globe, The Miami Herald, the Star Tribune, and The Texas Tribune join Covering Climate Now
The global media collaboration Covering Climate Now is proud to welcome four outstanding regional journalism outlets in the United States as partners: The Boston Globe, The Miami Herald, Star Tribune (of Minneapolis), and The Texas Tribune. “Climate change is a global problem but it manifests in local communities, and good journalism is essential to making […]
COP 15 Links the Climate and Biodiversity Stories
“Humanity has become a weapon of mass extinction… with a million species at risk of disappearing forever,” UN Secretary-General António Guterres told reporters on Wednesday at COP15, the UN Biodiversity Conference in Montreal. The conference gives journalists everywhere the opportunity to explain how halting the extinction of species is as crucial as halting the overheating […]
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The Washington Post Goes Big on Climate
This is a landmark week for climate journalism, as one of the world’s most influential news organizations, The Washington Post, announced a dramatic expansion of its climate coverage. “We have nearly tripled the size of our Climate team — totaling more than 30 journalists — part of a newsroom-wide commitment to covering perhaps the century’s […]