Thirty-six years ago, the American journalist Bill McKibben wrote The End of Nature, the first mass-market book about climate change. The book warned, from the perspective of a lover of nature, about the dangers posed by a warming planet: Changes in our world which can affect us can happen in our lifetime—not just changes like […]
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Since its inception in 2021, the Covering Climate Now Journalism Awards program has enabled us to amplify extraordinary work from a wide range of outlets, big and small. We’ve found that the awards serve as an opportunity to boost morale within the climate journalism community and bring journalists from all across the world into conversation […]
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An investigation into the fossil fuel industry’s role in promoting anti-protest laws. A profile of a Palestinian woman collecting climate-resilient heirloom seeds. A sprawling television series tackling the profound fight at the core of the climate crisis, between saving the planet and growing our economies. These stories are among the winners, announced today, of the […]
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For release: September 18, 2025 Press contact: awards@coveringclimatenow.org Today, the global journalism collaboration Covering Climate Now announced 49 winners of the 2025 CCNow Journalism Awards. Now in its fifth year, the CCNow awards program has become a recognized standard for excellence. This year’s winners hail from around the world, from outlets big and small, and, […]
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Chances are you’ve heard that Taylor Swift is getting married. When she and Travis Kelce announced their engagement last month, it was all over the news, all over the world. Chances are equally good that you did not hear some other, literally Earth-shaping news that broke two days later. On August 28, some of the […]
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Global music star Jon Batiste sympathizes with the growing number of people avoiding the news these days, but he has an antidote: Talk about climate solutions and “bring people together. People power is the way that you can change things in the world.” Forty percent of the world’s people practice “news avoidance,” according to the […]
This week, Covering Climate Now’s latest newsmaker interview featured global music star Jon Batiste discussing the 20th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, the monster storm that devastated his hometown of New Orleans, and the new song Batiste has released imploring people to take climate action. All CCNow partners are invited to republish the story by CCNow’s […]
Every journalist covering the climate story can learn a thing or two from Post and Courier journalist Tony Bartelme. His new book, Rising Waters, entertainingly explores the title theme from his hometown, Charleston, S.C., whose low-lying coastal landscape makes it one of the most climate-threatened cities in the US. But his work is equally valuable […]