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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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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