Sign up to receive our weekly newsletter. No matter your favorite news source, you’ve probably been seeing more stories on climate change lately. A new report by the Media and Climate Change Observatory at the University of Colorado Boulder, which monitors newspaper, radio, and TV reporting in 59 countries, finds that 2021 saw the highest […]
This story is published in collaboration with the Los Angeles Times. The third weekend of August 2020 was a hectic time for California. Wildfires raged, smoke filled the air, and power shortages had forced state officials to order rolling blackouts, meaning hundreds of thousands of homes lacked air conditioning during a brutal heat wave. That […]
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“What are Republicans for?” President Joe Biden asked during his January 19 press conference. “Name me one thing they’re for,” he added. Nowhere does that apply more urgently than to climate change. Months ago, Biden sent Congress legislation that could take the United States a long way towards halving planet-warming emissions by 2030, as science […]
Sign up to receive our weekly newsletter. At this stage in the climate emergency, every year is a make-or-break year. Our role as journalists is to focus public attention on what needs doing and how it can be achieved, and to hold governments, corporations, and other powerful interests accountable for delivering that change. To that end, […]
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 Monica Samayoa, who is the environment reporter at Oregon Public Radio and serves on the steering committee of the Uproot […]
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Sign up to receive our weekly newsletter. Nearly two thirds of media leaders around the world think their climate crisis coverage is better than everyone else’s, according to new research by the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism at the University of Oxford. But isn’t that a bit like parents talking about the abilities […]
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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, […]