Each month, Covering Climate Now speaks with different journalists about their experiences on the climate beat and their ideas for pushing our craft forward. This week, we spoke with Gabriela Sá Pessoa, a Brazilian journalist covering climate change and human rights, who is the International Women’s Media Foundation’s 2023 Elizabeth Neuffer Fellow. Pessoa has reported […]
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Sign up to receive our weekly newsletter “Exxon really did know.” So wrote Bloomberg columnist Mark Gonglof, commenting on the latest revelations that the oil giant knew decades ago that it would dangerously overheat the planet. A peer-reviewed study released last week in Science cited internal ExxonMobil documents showing that, as far back 1977, the company’s […]
Did you know that the average household in the United States has a new “bank account” of $8,000 to spend on clean energy, thanks to the Inflation Reduction Act? Or that irreversible tipping points, notably in the Amazon rainforest, are approaching much faster than scientists had expected? And that 2023 will bring much more extreme […]
Each month, Covering Climate Now speaks with different journalists about their experiences on the climate beat and their ideas for pushing our craft forward. This week, we spoke with Ajit Niranjan, a British freelance climate correspondent and frequent contributor to Germany’s Deutsche Welle. We talked about improving journalism’s approach to climate solutions, simplifying how we […]
Greta Thunberg takes no prisoners. In one of the most popular tweets ever, the renowned climate activist, on December 28, scorched Andrew Tate, a kickboxer who had bragged about the “enormous emissions” of his 33 sports cars and requested her email address so he could send details. “yes, please do enlighten me,” Thunberg replied, “email […]
Paris Agreement, meet Montreal Framework. What UN Secretary-General António Guterres hailed as a “peace pact with nature” caps a year of huge developments in the climate story. On Monday, almost every country in the world — though not the United States — approved the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework, as it is officially named. The deal […]
Global temperature rise, international climate conferences, Arctic glacier melts. In those terms, climate change can feel abstract and distant. But to understand how climate change is impacting people, we have to examine it at the local level. That makes local journalism indispensable to telling the climate story — and it’s why Covering Climate Now is […]
EACH MONTH, Covering Climate Now speaks with different journalists about their experiences on the climate beat and their ideas for pushing our craft forward. This week, we spoke with Mary Annaïse Heglar, who cohosts the climate podcast Hot Take with Amy Westervelt. Heglar’s writing has appeared in The Nation, The New Republic, Rolling Stone, Wired, […]
The global media collaboration Covering Climate Now is proud to welcome four outstanding regional journalism outlets in the United States as partners: The Boston Globe, The Miami Herald, Star Tribune (of Minneapolis), and The Texas Tribune. “Climate change is a global problem but it manifests in local communities, and good journalism is essential to making […]