Covering Invasive Pests

Story Spark: Invasive Pests From musical frogs and giant praying mantis to the notorious spotted lanternfly — more than 37,000 invasive species are impacting native ecosystems around the world. These pests, introduced by humans, intentionally or not, not only dramatically change biodiversity, they also cost the global economy more than $423 billion annually by destroying […]

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Celebrating the Winners of the 2026 CCNow Journalism Awards

A painstaking investigation into South Florida’s widening flooding crisis, which is far worse than government data let on. A sprawling, on-the-ground look at the toll power-hungry, water-guzzling data centers are taking all across Asia. The inspiring story of Congolese researchers striving to enter data about the critical but little-studied Congo Basin into the global record. […]

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Covering Climate Now Announces Winners of the 2026 CCNow Journalism Awards

For release: September 17, 2026 Press contact: awards@coveringclimatenow.org Covering Climate Now Announces Winners of the 2026 CCNow Journalism Awards Today, the global journalism collaboration Covering Climate Now announced 49 winners of the 2026 CCNow Journalism Awards. Now in its sixth year, the CCNow awards program is a globally-recognized standard for excellence in climate storytelling. The […]

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Covering Food Insecurity

Woman holding an empty grocery basket

Story Spark: Food Insecurity Climate change’s greatest impact for many vulnerable people, particularly in lower income countries, will be food insecurity and under-nutrition. As climate impacts worsen, heatwaves, drought, and floods are increasingly affecting agriculture.  An estimated 650 million people faced hunger last year, with an additional 50 million more anticipated to face severe starvation […]

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Q&A: Media Matters’s Evlondo Cooper on How the Press Missed the Climate Connection With This Summer’s Heat

Evlondo Cooper is a senior writer with the climate and energy program at Media Matters. He’s been monitoring and analyzing media climate coverage for nearly a decade. Covering Climate Now spoke recently with Cooper about his new report on broadcast news coverage of July heatwaves and how not mentioning climate is the continuation of a […]

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