A Washington Post poll released Monday found that 71% of Americans have heard “little” or “nothing at all” about the Inflation Reduction Act, the centerpiece of the Biden administration’s efforts to slash planet-warming emissions by boosting clean energy. The Post piece holds the administration itself responsible for the lack of public awareness, even as it […]
Donald Trump is not the only one whose legal problems got worse this week. On Monday, four US senators urged US Attorney General Merrick Garland to sue fossil fuel companies for decades of lying about climate change that have “wreak[ed] catastrophic damage upon the United States [in the form of] floods, droughts, extreme weather disturbances, […]
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The Associated Press and Grist have launched “Climate Connections,” a collaboration focusing on how climate change is projected to affect human health around the world. The two news organizations will co-publish six stories across July and August investigating diseases including malaria, cholera, and tick-borne illnesses — all of which are set to affect more people […]
When John Kerry, the US special presidential envoy for climate, arrived in Beijing on Tuesday, a weather station in western China recorded a staggering 52.2 degrees Celsius temperature, an all-time record. Globally, hundreds of millions of people are enduring similarly brutal heat. Media coverage has been extensive, and the best of it has made the […]
Christiana Figueres, the Costa Rican diplomat who brokered the 2015 Paris Agreement, has had enough. “I thought fossil fuel firms could change. I was wrong,” declares the headline of a powerful article she published on July 6 in Al Jazeera. Coming from such a mainstream climate luminary, Figueres’s change of heart cries out for follow […]
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Sign up to receive our weekly newsletter “When heat comes, it’s invisible,” opens Jeff Goodell’s new book, The Heat Will Kill You First. The veteran journalist and Rolling Stone correspondent makes a searing case that most of us think about extreme heat all wrong, and to disastrous effect. Like his previous book, The Water Will […]
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Sign up to receive our weekly newsletter The heat has come for China. Beijing saw a three-day stretch of over 40 degrees Celsius (104 degrees Fahrenheit) last week. Temperatures in Shandong, a populous grain-growing province in the country’s north, prompted heat stroke warnings. Continued burning of fossil fuels is often seen as imperative to growing […]
Sign up to receive our weekly newsletter Covering Climate Now is pleased this week to announce the finalists for the 2023 Covering Climate Now Journalism Awards, now in its third year, honoring the best coverage from around the world of the climate emergency and its solutions. A panel of distinguished judges selected 76 finalists […]
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The global journalism collaboration Covering Climate Now today announced 76 finalists for the annual Covering Climate Now Journalism Awards. In its third year, the awards program honors the world’s best coverage of the climate emergency and its solutions. With climate change inflicting record heat across Asia, deadly drought in eastern Africa, and dangerous orange […]
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