Covering Climate Now is saddened and angered by the news that journalist Dom Phillips and Indigenous activist Bruno Pereira have been killed while working in the Amazon. We extend our condolences and solidarity to their families. Wrongdoers attack journalists because journalists are truth tellers, and the truth carries a power that nothing can kill. Phillips’s […]
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Giving Climate the Coverage It Deserves
Sign up to receive our weekly newsletter This week’s introduction is written by Columbia Journalism Review’s editor and publisher Kyle Pope, who chaired the judging of the 2022 Covering Climate Now Journalism Awards. Melting ice in Greenland swamping South Carolina. Deadly heat scorching low-wage workers in Los Angeles. Rising seas driving Senegalese to migrate to Europe […]
The 2022 Covering Climate Now Journalism Awards Honor Superior Coverage of the Biggest Story of Our Time
Press contact: Colby Kelly colbylorrainekelly@gmail.com For the second year in a row, the global media collaboration Covering Climate Now is honoring journalists doing the strongest coverage of the onrushing climate emergency and its abundant solutions. Winners of the 2022 Covering Climate Now Journalism Awards include journalists at the Guardian, Agence-France Presse, Al Jazeera English, […]
Four Food and Water Facts You Might Not Know
Sign up to receive our weekly newsletter The climate connection to the food we eat and the water we drink is a great way to engage audiences, but it’s also a complex, far-reaching subject to understand. As our partner outlets gear up for CCNow’s upcoming ‘Food & Water’ joint coverage week, here are some key facts […]
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Food, Hunger, Climate and How We Cover Them
World hunger is on the rise. In two years, the number of people who are considered “severely food insecure” — in plainer terms, desperately hungry — has jumped, horrifyingly, from 135 million to 276 million, UN Secretary-General António Guterres said on May 18. In addition to Russia’s war in Ukraine and the Covid-19 pandemic, “the […]
Introducing Our New ‘Food & Water’ Climate Reporting Guide
Sign up to receive our weekly newsletter As we discussed in last week’s ‘Climate Beat’ newsletter, CCNow’s next joint coverage week will focus on the climate connections with food and water. The week kicks off Monday, June 27, with a topic that’s sure to engage audiences; after all, we all need to eat and drink. Sadly, […]
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Nations Are Nowhere on Their Climate Commitments, and Too Few Journalists Are Holding Them Accountable
Six months ago in Glasgow, Scotland, world leaders at the COP26 climate summit hailed themselves for “keeping alive” the Paris Agreement goal to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius. Skeptics noted, however, that few countries were walking the walk vis-à-vis their climate rhetoric — and if the 1.5-degree-C target was alive, it was “on life […]
Engaging Audiences by Reporting on What They Eat and Drink
Sign up to receive our weekly newsletter The food we eat and the water we drink are increasingly under threat from climate change. Scorching temperatures, drought, and flooding are destroying crops. Rising seas are salinating coastal soils. As usual, the most vulnerable people are affected first and worst. Not only does climate change affect the food […]
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If It Please the Court
Sign up to receive our weekly newsletter The leaked US Supreme Court draft opinion on Roe v. Wade reminds us of the tremendous power the Court has over life in the United States. That power extends to the fight against climate change, as a potentially game-changing case currently before the court, West Virginia v. Environmental Protection […]