As the world lurches toward climate action, leaders often hail opportunities for justice and equity. Less often, however, do we see either of these principles in practice. What would it look like to bring the climate story down to earth—and moreover to center our stories on those who are most vulnerable? Nina Lakhani is the […]
The 2023 Atlantic Hurricane season started on June 1. El Niño, the weather pattern that warms tropical waters in the Pacific Ocean, began on June 7. Globally, sea surface temperatures have spiked, reaching a record high in April, a foreboding reminder that Earth’s oceans have absorbed roughly 90% of the excess heat produced by humanity’s […]
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Wildfire smoke from Canada turned the skies over New York City a deeply unhealthy orange and gray on Wednesday as climate change continues to ravage more and more of the planet. Since many of the world’s news organizations have journalists based in New York, this could be a pivotal moment in media coverage of the […]
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Faced with a climate emergency, journalists should not keep reporting news the same old way. That’s the thinking behind a path-breaking innovation in climate journalism launched this March in France, where the national public broadcaster, France Télévisions, is dramatically changing how it reports on weather. And since weather is a staple of news coverage the […]
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Sign up to receive our weekly newsletter in your inbox. “Electrical vehicles are really powered by coal, because that’s what’s used to produce electricity.” Reading that, did your BS detector go off? If not, you’re not alone. Climate falsehoods can be hard to spot, and are often intentionally meant to confuse or deceive. That misleading statement […]
Sign up to receive our weekly newsletter Heat is making news this week in more ways than one. The World Meteorological Organization announced on Wednesday that Earth will likely breach the 1.5 degrees Celsius temperature target by 2027, if only briefly, although scientists emphasized that rapid emissions cuts can still make that overshoot temporary. Meanwhile, as […]
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If you were a reader in Florida, starting a few years ago, you might have noticed an uptick in climate-centric op-eds in your local newspaper. That’s thanks in large part to Rosemary and Tom O’Hara, veteran newspaper editors who launched and supervised The Invading Sea, a collaborative effort to hasten the climate conversation in their […]
Sign up to receive our weekly newsletter The Biden administration’s proposal to slash planet-warming pollution from electric power plants is a landmark development in the climate story. Announced today by the Environmental Protection Agency, Biden’s plan aims to “effectively eliminate carbon dioxide emissions from the nation’s electricity sector by 2040,” The New York Times reported. Certain […]
Sign up to receive our weekly newsletter “Every person on Earth today is living in a crime scene,” Covering Climate Now’s executive director Mark Hertsgaard wrote in 2021 at the launch of the Guardian’s “Climate Crimes” reporting series. “The fossil fuel industry’s 40 years of lying about climate change,” he added, “have… blunt[ed] public awareness and […]
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