Sign up to receive our weekly newsletter. In a virtual address to the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday, Chinese president Xi Jinping announced that China will no longer finance the building of any new coal-fired plants abroad. The New York Times’ international climate reporter, Somini Sengupta, took to Twitter to break down the significance of the […]
Sign up to receive our weekly newsletter. We’re thrilled to announce the finalists for the first Covering Climate Now Climate Journalism Awards. The quality of work demonstrated by these finalists gives us great faith in the future of climate journalism. Scan the list and you’ll find brilliantly conceived, superbly executed stories from print reporters and photojournalists, digital, […]
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The global news media consortium Covering Climate Now today announced a slate of 39 finalists for the first annual Covering Climate Now Journalism Awards. The finalists, including print reporters and photojournalists, digital, television and radio journalists, as well as podcasters and commentators, were selected from nearly 600 entries submitted from 38 countries. Finalists were chosen […]
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Sign up to receive our weekly newsletter. Hurricane Ida has left more than a million people in Louisiana without running water, electricity, or air conditioning amid a heat index topping 100 degrees Fahrenheit. The Caldor fire destroyed hundreds of houses and forced mass evacuations around Lake Tahoe in California. Abroad, vast swaths of Siberia were […]
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The climate emergency is exploding in various parts of the world this week, but climate silence inexcusably continues to reign in much of the United States media. Hurricane Ida has left more than a million people in Louisiana without running water, electricity, or air conditioning amid a heat index topping 100F. The Caldor fire destroyed hundreds […]
Sign up to receive our weekly newsletter. COP26, set for November in Glasgow, Scotland, is not just another international meeting. As journalists, our coverage of the summit should begin now. Audiences need to know the summit is coming and that the world’s scientists say it’s now or never for governments to reach an agreement for […]
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Sign up to receive our weekly newsletter. Last week, IPCC scientists issued a grim update on the realities of climate change, which UN Secretary General António Guterres called a “code red for humanity.” That report will form the basis of debates and decisions at COP26, the global summit taking place in Glasgow from October 31 […]
Sign up to receive our weekly newsletter. Monday’s report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) was striking, if not surprising. It warned that the consequences of climate change—including recent extreme weather events that have wreaked havoc around the globe—will grow dramatically worse this century if humanity fails to act. As CCNow executive director Mark Hertsgaard […]
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The consequences of human-caused climate change—including recent extreme weather events that have wreaked havoc around the globe—will grow drastically worse this century if humanity fails to act, according to a landmark report issued Monday by the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. The IPCC warned in 2018 that global warming of 1.5 degrees Celsius […]
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