Sign up to receive our weekly newsletter. Happy New Year from the team at Covering Climate Now! Here’s to a great year of collaboration, as well as rigorous, creative, and engaging climate reporting. As the US faces a grim milestone — the first anniversary of the January 6 assault on the US Capitol — we’re starting […]
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Sign up to receive our weekly newsletter. Journalists on the climate beat will begin 2022 with their work cut out for them. In the US, we’re still awaiting promised climate legislation — desirable as a matter of science and survival, not of partisan politics. If that legislation finally passes, how federal money will be doled […]
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In January, we wrote in this column, “Humanity begins 2021 with a real chance to pull back from the brink of climate catastrophe.” In the United States, then-President-elect Joe Biden promised bold climate legislation at home and renewed climate leadership globally. Elsewhere, dozens of countries had declared a “climate state of emergency,” while still others, […]
When we started Covering Climate Now in 2019, one goal was to foster communication and camaraderie between journalists telling the climate story. It’s a difficult and sometimes lonely beat, and so we wanted to provide a forum for journalists to share their highs and lows, as well as tips of the trade. We do this […]
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Amy Westervelt is the founder of the Critical Frequency podcast network. Westervelt’s own show is “Drilled,” a true crime-style podcast about climate change, and she co-hosts “Hot Take,” along with Mary Annaïse Heglar. Much of Westervelt’s work focuses on climate denial and disinformation, especially from fossil fuel companies. A recent Drilled miniseries, for example, in […]
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Sign up to receive our weekly newsletter. As this year draws to a close, we’re reflecting on the broad climate themes we’ve urged newsrooms to focus on as they evolve their climate reporting, including the oft-heard but frequently misunderstood metric of 1.5 degrees Celsius. It’s a number that dominated negotiations at last month’s United Nations […]
Sign up to receive our weekly newsletter. “It’s impossible to be happy about COP26’s outcome,” Mark Hertsgaard, Covering Climate Now’s executive director, wrote at the international climate summit’s conclusion. “Virtually every country said the Glasgow Climate Pact was less than what it wanted, and island nations in particular were furious … but the pact was […]
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GLASGOW, SCOTLAND—COP26 president Alok Sharma held back tears as he accepted India’s last-minute motion to weaken the summit’s pledge to “phase out” coal. Sharma had been saying for months that he wanted COP26 to “consign coal to history.” And until India insisted otherwise at the eleventh hour, it looked like the summit might achieve that scientifically […]
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This story is publishable by Covering Climate Now partners. Glasgow, Scotland—It’s an article of faith in US political and media circles that American leadership is essential to global climate progress.That message was repeated Tuesday at the United Nations climate conference COP26 as Speaker of the US House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi and a delegation of […]
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