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 Jeff Berardelli, the chief meteorologist and climate specialist at WFLA-TV in Tampa, Florida. Berardelli was previously the meteorologist and climate specialist for CBS News in New […]
The Guardian has been Covering Climate Now’s lead media partner since our founding in April 2019. That October, Katharine Viner, the Guardian’s editor-in-chief, announced a climate pledge that would further strengthen the paper’s already strong commitment to the story. “The climate crisis is the most urgent issue of our times,” Viner wrote, and it required […]
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“Only connect!” E.M. Forster’s exhortation in the novel ‘Howards End’ is also good advice for climate reporting. When extreme weather events occur — such as Hurricane Ian, which devastated Florida last week, or the record downpours that have flooded Pakistan since June leaving one-third of the country under water— it’s essential for news reports to […]
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Sign up to receive our weekly newsletter Yesterday afternoon, Hurricane Ian crashed into Florida’s west coast, bringing with it surging seawater and catastrophic, 150mph winds. In the coming days, the storm is forecast to pass east over Florida into the Atlantic, before turning northwest and hitting Georgia and the Carolinas as a tropical storm. Video from […]
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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 Brazilian journalist Eliane Brum and Guardian correspondent Jonathan Watts, who recently launched Sumaúma, a news platform dedicated to in-depth coverage of the Amazon rainforest. We spoke […]
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Sign up to receive our weekly newsletter There’s been a lot of big, sometimes surprising, climate news from Climate Week NYC and the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) this week. To help get you up to speed, here is some of what journalists need to know leading up to the US midterm elections and COP27 in […]
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Twice 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 Obi Anyadike, the Africa editor for the New Humanitarian, a nonprofit newsroom reporting on humanitarian crises worldwide. We spoke about the emerging hunger crisis in East […]
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Sign up to receive our weekly newsletter If you’re covering climate change, history shows that one of the smartest things you can do is pay attention to activists. Time and again, they have inadvertently indicated where the climate story was heading — and thus what journalists had to be prepared to cover. Covering Climate Now has […]
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Climate survival is on the ballot in November’s US midterm elections, even if most Americans don’t know it yet. During the 61 days remaining before Election Day, journalists can help voters understand that the choices they make will profoundly influence whether today’s young people inherit a livable planet or not. According to opinion polls, Americans […]
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