11.2 million. That’s the number of American citizens who rank climate change as their top issue but didn’t vote in the 2024 election, according to research by the Environmental Voter Project. For context, Donald Trump won the presidency in 2024 by less than 2.3 million votes. For a little over a decade, EVP has been […]
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With the US midterm elections less than three weeks away, is it any surprise that corruption has emerged as voters’ top concern? “Corrupt” was the adjective most often chosen when registered voters were asked for a single word to describe President Donald Trump, according to a survey conducted in September by The Economist and the […]
We’re back with a pop-up newsletter before the midterms! Welcome to Climate on the Ballot, the weekly elections email from the editors at Covering Climate Now. Our goal from now through November 3 is to help you and your newsroom illuminate politics’ role in addressing climate change and integrate climate into your coverage of this […]
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Before being elected Canada’s prime minister in April 2025, Mark Carney championed ambitious climate action grounded in rigorous science. As the head of the Bank of England, he warned that limiting temperature rise to 2 degrees Celsius would require leaving trillions of dollars’ worth of oil, gas, and coal in the ground. Fearing a repeat […]
LO QUE TIENES QUE SABER Antes de que hubiera neveras, los hombres de la Sierra de Mérida subían al Pico Bolívar y cortaban hielo del glaciar con machete y martillo. Bajaban varios kilómetros con los bloques a la espalda y los vendían para conservar alimentos y preparar raspados. Cuando llegó la primera planta hidroeléctrica a […]
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For this issue, we handed things over to Jessica Kutz, the climate reporter at The 19th News, a nonprofit news organization that reports at the intersection of gender, politics, and policy. For the last five years, she has focused on how climate change affects women’s health and also their pocketbooks, parenting, and activism. Story Spark: […]
The biggest news during last week’s Climate Week NYC came not from the US but from Germany, where the government of the world’s third-largest economy committed to phasing out fossil fuels by 2045. It was the first time Germany has explicitly made such a promise, Fiona Harvey noted in The Guardian. Germany’s previous pledges, Harvey […]
LO QUE TIENES QUE SABER El Niño vuelve a activar las alertas en el Canal de Panamá. El Canal funciona con lluvia y se nutre del agua de dos lagos artificiales: el de Gatún y el de Alhajuela, el primero de los cuales se encuentra por debajo de lo esperado, pese a las lluvias de […]
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It’s a mistake for Democratic politicians not to talk about climate change, and the reason they don’t is “because they don’t know how to talk about it,” California governor Gavin Newsom said Wednesday in an interview with The Guardian and Covering Climate Now. Speaking on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly meeting and New […]
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