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 the Washington Post’s climate and environment editor Zachary Goldfarb and deputy climate and environment editor Juliet Eilperin. Goldfarb and Eilperin have recently overseen significant growth to […]
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Sign up to receive our weekly newsletter As news coverage of climate change continues to increase and improve globally, we’re proud to invite entries for the third annual Covering Climate Now Journalism Awards. To spotlight the accelerating climate emergency and the urgency of action, the 2023 awards will include new honors for exemplary climate solutions […]
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Press Contact: Colby Kelly, colby@coveringclimatenow.org Journalists throughout the world are invited to submit their work for the 2023 Covering Climate Now Journalism Awards, presented with the Columbia Journalism Review. Entries should be made through the awards submission page and will be accepted through March 15, 2023. Winners will be announced in late spring. Covering Climate […]
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Sign up to receive our weekly newsletter Solutions reporting, done right, is essential to good climate journalism. More and more people recognize that human-caused climate change is a problem. Now, they need to understand that there are solutions — many solutions, in fact. News organizations can help their audiences, and themselves, if they bear in mind […]
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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 […]