Sign up to receive our weekly newsletter In February, Covering Climate Now urged newsrooms to make the most of this month’s Earth Day coverage by reporting on what we call “Super Solutions” – climate fixes that are likely to make the biggest difference in the least amount of time. Speed, after all, was an unmistakable theme […]
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As climate investments from the Inflation Reduction Act begin rolling out, important conversations about climate change and energy are bubbling up in communities across the US. With this in mind, Covering Climate Now spoke with a reporter who covered climate from Texas, a state where climate and energy have long been center-stage. Amal Ahmed is […]
Each month, Covering Climate Now speaks with different journalists about their experiences on the climate beat and ideas for pushing our craft forward. This week, we spoke with Nico Lauricella, founder and editor in chief of the new climate journalism site Heatmap. Prior to Heatmap, Lauricella was editor in chief of The Week online. Heatmap launched earlier this month, with […]
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Sign up to receive our weekly newsletter “There is no greater feminist cause today than saving the planet and each other,” wrote Pakistani author Fatima Bhutto this week. Bhutto elaborated on this declaration in a powerful essay for the Guardian that shines light on an aspect of climate justice that has not gotten the attention it […]
Sign up to receive our weekly newsletter Humanity received a “final warning” Monday from the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. The bottom line of the Synthesis Report of the IPCC’s Sixth Assessment Report is to “act now, or it’s too late,” the Guardian wrote. The scale of the emergency screams out from almost every page […]
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The latest IPCC report is essential reading for all climate journalists, but its prose is difficult for non-specialists to decipher. Here are some highlights from the “Summary For Policymakers,” translated into plain English, as well as some notable quotes from climate luminaries, to inform your coverage of this landmark report. “Everything, Everywhere, All At Once.” […]
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Sign up to receive our weekly newsletter In direct contradiction to climate science and his own campaign promises, US president Joe Biden approved the massive Willow oil project in Alaska this week. Much of the resulting news coverage has framed the decision as Biden vs activists, but it’s really Biden vs science. Yes, activists vehemently oppose […]
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It’s not every day that a global environmental agreement is praised by everyone from the United States and the European Union to China and the Africa Group to the Pew Charitable Trust and Greenpeace. But that’s what happened last weekend when all UN member states agreed to a legally binding “UN High Seas Treaty” to […]
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Each month, Covering Climate Now speaks with different journalists about their experiences on the climate beat and ideas for pushing our craft forward. This week, we spoke with Rebecca Leber, a senior reporter at Vox who previously covered climate change and the environment for Mother Jones, Grist, and The New Republic. We talked about the […]
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