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 […]
Sign up to receive our weekly newsletter The food we eat and the water we drink are increasingly under threat from climate change. Scorching temperatures, drought, and flooding are destroying crops. Rising seas are salinating coastal soils. As usual, the most vulnerable people are affected first and worst. Not only does climate change affect the food […]
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Sign up to receive our weekly newsletter The leaked US Supreme Court draft opinion on Roe v. Wade reminds us of the tremendous power the Court has over life in the United States. That power extends to the fight against climate change, as a potentially game-changing case currently before the court, West Virginia v. Environmental Protection […]
The conversation has been edited for length and clarity. Follow Pugliese on Twitter. Tell us a bit about yourself and your path to this new job at the Observer. Well, I’ve been in journalism for about 20 years. The Aboriginal People’s Television Network was my first serious job. And that was trial-by-fire, because at the […]
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Sign up to receive our weekly newsletter It’s Hurricane Preparedness Week, a campaign led by the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) to encourage the public to “be ready for hurricane season.” Journalists need to be ready too. While the official start to hurricane season is still a month away, NOAA reminds us that in […]
Sign up to receive our weekly newsletter Fossil fuel companies have been lying for decades about climate change, and humanity and natural systems everywhere are paying the price. And more suffering, loss, and damage lie ahead, because those same companies, and the politicians who do their bidding in Washington and other world capitals, continue to […]