Con el boom de la minería de litio, América Latina es ahora el epicentro de una nueva “fiebre del oro” extractiva, con impactos directos sobre agua, ecosistemas y comunidades. El desafío periodístico es contar cómo la transición energética global afecta a territorios, modos de vida y modelos de desarrollo. Aquí te ayudamos a hacerlo. LO […]
In 2024, Covering Climate Now alerted hundreds of journalists in Japan to a singularly important innovation in climate news coverage: the evening news program of France’s public broadcaster, France Télévisions, replacing its traditional weather report with a weather and climate report. In a presentation organized by Japanese partner Media Is Hope to journalists gathered in […]
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Covering Climate Now has become a go-to reference for freelance journalist Johani Ponce, showing how CCNow’s resources are essential not only for major newsrooms but also for independent reporters working across multiple outlets. Johani specializes in climate reporting and brings this beat to Latino communities in the US and Latin America through her work with […]
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For the last year and a half, television stations across the US have been turning to Covering Climate Now to learn how to make the connection between extreme weather and climate change. Last November, David Urías, a general assignment and multimedia reporter at Univision Dallas, used those skills in a new way in his reporting. […]
Compared to other local television stations in South Carolina, WACH-FOX is a smaller operation with a team of two meteorologists; other stations have at least three to four. That didn’t stop the on-air pair, Taylor Kanost and Clara Faith, from undertaking a momentous task: producing a half-hour news special completely dedicated to exploring how climate […]
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In 2024, Covering Climate Now partnered with the Solutions Journalism Network to produce and publish the Climate Blueprint for Media Transformation, a collaborative effort shaped by the expertise and experience of a diverse group of practitioners. The Blueprint grew out of a jointly organized conference, Climate Changes Everything, that gathered more than 200 working journalists […]
With COP30 set to begin next week, UN Secretary-General António Guterres says countries have collectively failed to meet their goal, agreed upon one decade ago in Paris, to limit global temperature rise to 1.5 degrees Celsius. In an exclusive pre-COP interview with Jonathan Watts of The Guardian and Wajã Xipai of the Amazon-based outlet SUMAÚMA, […]
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: Scientific Studies and Research When reporting on scientific studies, don’t let the research take over the story. Good science reporting requires […]
Let’s go! The next phase of The 89 Percent Project starts this Sunday, October 26, when news organizations from around the world begin telling the stories of the humans behind the numbers. It’s one thing to report, as the project’s first surge of coverage did in April, that 80 to 89% of the world’s people […]
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