Sign up to receive our weekly newsletter We’re thrilled to kick off Covering Climate Now’s next joint coverage week, which runs from Monday, June 27, through Friday, July 1, and focuses on food and water. We’ve heard from hundreds of journalists who plan to participate, and we’re so grateful to have everyone aboard. We chose ‘Food […]
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The global media collaboration Covering Climate Now is proud to welcome Germany’s international broadcaster Deutsche Welle as a new partner. “The extraordinary global reach and linguistic diversity of Deutsche Welle’s news coverage combined with its journalists’ high-profile reporting on the climate emergency and its solutions exemplify the high standards Covering Climate Now is spreading throughout […]
Covering Climate Now is saddened and angered by the news that journalist Dom Phillips and Indigenous activist Bruno Pereira have been killed while working in the Amazon. We extend our condolences and solidarity to their families. Wrongdoers attack journalists because journalists are truth tellers, and the truth carries a power that nothing can kill. Phillips’s […]
Sign up to receive our weekly newsletter This week’s introduction is written by Columbia Journalism Review’s editor and publisher Kyle Pope, who chaired the judging of the 2022 Covering Climate Now Journalism Awards. Melting ice in Greenland swamping South Carolina. Deadly heat scorching low-wage workers in Los Angeles. Rising seas driving Senegalese to migrate to Europe […]
Press contact: Colby Kelly colbylorrainekelly@gmail.com For the second year in a row, the global media collaboration Covering Climate Now is honoring journalists doing the strongest coverage of the onrushing climate emergency and its abundant solutions. Winners of the 2022 Covering Climate Now Journalism Awards include journalists at the Guardian, Agence-France Presse, Al Jazeera English, […]
Sign up to receive our weekly newsletter The climate connection to the food we eat and the water we drink is a great way to engage audiences, but it’s also a complex, far-reaching subject to understand. As our partner outlets gear up for CCNow’s upcoming ‘Food & Water’ joint coverage week, here are some key facts […]
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World hunger is on the rise. In two years, the number of people who are considered “severely food insecure” — in plainer terms, desperately hungry — has jumped, horrifyingly, from 135 million to 276 million, UN Secretary-General António Guterres said on May 18. In addition to Russia’s war in Ukraine and the Covid-19 pandemic, “the […]
Sign up to receive our weekly newsletter As we discussed in last week’s ‘Climate Beat’ newsletter, CCNow’s next joint coverage week will focus on the climate connections with food and water. The week kicks off Monday, June 27, with a topic that’s sure to engage audiences; after all, we all need to eat and drink. Sadly, […]
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Six months ago in Glasgow, Scotland, world leaders at the COP26 climate summit hailed themselves for “keeping alive” the Paris Agreement goal to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius. Skeptics noted, however, that few countries were walking the walk vis-à-vis their climate rhetoric — and if the 1.5-degree-C target was alive, it was “on life […]