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 […]
Sign up to receive our weekly newsletter It’s been a packed Earth Week. First off, we’re thrilled to announce the finalists for the 2022 Covering Climate Now Journalism Awards! This year CCNow received more than 900 award submissions from 65 countries for 18 categories, including long and short-form print and video coverage, audio, photography, commentary, […]
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Sign up to receive our weekly newsletter Since Paris, “the world seemed to have swerved sharply away from democracy and toward autocracy — and in the process dramatically limited our ability to fight the climate crisis.” So wrote Bill McKibben in a Guardian article on Monday launching Covering Climate Now’s latest joint reporting project, “Climate […]
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“It’s now or never” if we want to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius and avoid the worst impacts of climate change, said scientist Jim Skea, a co-chair of the new Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report released Monday. And how exactly do we keep the 1.5C target in reach? In an unprecedented development, […]