Globally, more people than ever consider climate change an urgent priority. Studies regularly show, however, that their understanding of climate change and its solutions lags behind their concern. So, how can journalists do their part? Justin Rowlatt, climate editor for the BBC, has been tuned into the climate story since making a name for himself […]
This Saturday at the Washington Hilton hotel, climate activists plan to blockade the annual White House Correspondents’ Dinner. No, not to demand the firing of climate deniers like now-former FOX host Tucker Carlson. Young militants with the group Climate Defiance make a more systemic critique, accusing the media as a whole of not treating climate […]
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Sign up to receive our weekly newsletter. Solutions to the climate emergency come in all shapes and sizes. But some (we call them “super solutions”) are much stronger than others, a key point for journalists to convey this Earth Week, and beyond. Kudos to Damian Carrington, whose close reading of the IPCC’s Sixth Assessment Report […]
Sign up to receive our weekly newsletter The climate crisis, Bill McKibben writes in the April issue of Rolling Stone, is “at heart, a math problem.” The atmosphere, he points out, “can only hold so much carbon before it overheats the Earth. Think of it as a one-gallon bucket: If you put more than a gallon […]
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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