The United Nations COP 26 climate summit this November was already set to be one of the most important diplomatic gatherings in history, a meeting where world leaders will, without exaggeration, decide the future of life on earth. Today, in a landmark report by the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), some of the […]
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Sign up to receive our weekly newsletter. Last week in Tokyo, on a blistering Wednesday afternoon, Russian tennis star Deniil Medvedev visibly struggled during his third-round singles match against the Italian player Fabio Fognini. Medvedev had already called a medical timeout, and in the second set his performance prompted the umpire to ask him if […]
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Sign up to receive the weekly Climate Beat newsletter. Last week, energy and environment ministers at a G20 meeting in Naples, Italy—seen as a decisive step leading up to COP26 in November—failed to agree on key details of countries’ climate change commitments. Activists had hoped the G20 event would result in “a strengthening of climate […]
This article is adapted from a piece for NBCU Academy. As a young reporter for Valley Public Radio, in Fresno, north of the small farm town where I grew up, I saw firsthand the human impacts of the unfolding climate emergency. Amid a crushing multi-year drought in the state, which lasted from 2011 to 2017, […]
Read More… from Reporters Must Center Climate Justice. Here’s How.
Sign up to receive the weekly Climate Beat newsletter. That headline, from a Reuters story published this week quoting COP26 president Alok Sharma, is one of the great climate headlines of 2021. And it couldn’t be more relevant amid the deadly floods and wildfires ravaging Germany, China, Nigeria, and the American West. Sharma, the British […]
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The wildfires forecast this summer in the American West could be the biggest climate story of 2021 (until November’s Glasgow summit). And the unprecedented heat waves now scorching much of the American West are another painful sign that the climate emergency is here. Good journalism will not only inform people how to stay safe, but […]
Read More… from Watch Now: Heat, Fires, and the Climate Connection
Sign up to receive the weekly Climate Beat newsletter. It’s a trope in political journalism to wonder whether high profile climate deniers are “in on the joke.” That is, do they realize privately that the science is unequivocal but cynically choose to claim the opposite in public? Or are they truly, hopelessly uninformed? In a video obtained this […]
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Sign up to receive the weekly Climate Beat newsletter. You almost don’t need to ask anymore. Of course climate change is partly to blame for the record heat now scorching the Pacific Northwest. Of course climate change may have contributed to the horrific building collapse in Surfside, Florida. And of course ExxonMobil is still doing all it can […]
Last week’s G7 summit brought important climate progress, though not on the moral duty and scientific imperative of wealthy countries providing abundant climate aid for developing countries. Leaders of the US, the UK, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, and Japan, pledged to collectively halve their own countries’ greenhouse gas emissions by 2030 and to reach net zero […]
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