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You Can’t Isolate the Food Crisis From the Climate Crisis

Since Russia’s war in Ukraine began, there’s been much talk about the pursuant energy crisis and the world’s need for a clean-energy transition. Though the implications for climate change are significant, journalists have only sometimes spelled them out in their coverage. Now, there is another crisis emerging as a knock-on effect of the war: the […]

Climate Change Is Everywhere in the Story of a Mounting Global Food Crisis

Sign up to receive our weekly newsletter Since Russia’s war in Ukraine began, there’s been much talk about the pursuant energy crisis and the world’s need for a clean-energy transition. Though the implications for climate change are significant, journalists have only sometimes spelled them out in their coverage. Now, there is another crisis emerging as […]

Tomorrow’s Climate Strikes Deserve Front-Page Coverage

Sign up to receive our weekly newsletter. Fridays For Future, the youth climate movement ignited three years ago by Greta Thunberg’s school strikes, is holding another day of global protest tomorrow, March 25. For journalists, protests of this scale are a reminder that activists are newsmakers just like politicians and CEOs, and news coverage should […]

Journalists Grapple with the American Energy Crisis

Last week, on the prank and frat-culture podcast Full Send special guest Donald Trump was asked about the war in Ukraine and how he predicts it will unfold. “Well, and I said this a long time ago,” the former president began. “If this happens, we are playing right into their hands. Green energy. The windmills […]

Parroting Industry Talking Points Isn’t Journalism

Sign up to receive our weekly newsletter. CCNow’s Andrew McCormick has a column out today in CJR, excerpted below that offers important guidance for journalists covering the ongoing energy crisis. Last week, on the prank and frat-culture podcast Full Send special guest Donald Trump was asked about the war in Ukraine and how he predicts […]

War, Oil, and Reporting the New Climate Story

Sign up to receive our weekly newsletter Russia’s war on Ukraine is an epoch-changing event that poses sweeping challenges, and opportunities, for climate reporting. Suddenly the only existential threat that matches climate change, nuclear war, has reemerged as a clear and present danger. A global recession threatens as fossil fuels, still the lifeblood of the world […]

Q&A: John Mecklin on Climate Change and Other Existential Threats

Each month, Covering Climate Now speaks with a different journalist about their experiences on the climate beat, their reporting tips, and their ideas for pushing our profession and craft forward. This month, we spoke with John Mecklin, editor in chief of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. The Bulletin, founded in 1945 to focus on […]

The UN’s “Atlas of Human Suffering” Isn’t a One-Day Story

Sign up to receive our weekly newsletter “Human-induced climate change and the war on Ukraine have the same roots: fossil fuels and our dependence on them.” So said climate scientist Svitlana Krakovska, the head of Ukraine’s delegation, at a session of the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s (IPCC) Working Group II, according to The […]

Climate Looms Large Over Biden’s First State of the Union. Will the Coverage Say So?

Tonight, before a joint session of Congress, President Joe Biden will deliver his first State of the Union address. The backdrop is a frightening new war in Europe, which the president has described as a “brutal” and “unjustifiable” assault on the people of Ukraine. In a moment of great uncertainty, it will be on Biden […]