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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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, […]
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