Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images News / Getty Images Sign up to receive the weekly Climate Beat newsletter. Last week, audiences watched the most substantive conversation on climate change to ever feature in a US presidential debate. Moderator Kristen Welker, of NBC News, first asked the candidates what each would do to combat climate change while […]
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Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images News / Getty Images Sign up to receive the weekly Climate Beat newsletter. Imagine any serious adult saying they don’t know whether gravity is real. That, in effect, is what judge Amy Coney Barrett testified to the US Senate during her Supreme Court confirmation hearings last week. After demurring that she […]
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Climate Activists Protest Against Senate Leader Chuck Schumer Demanding He Sign On To Green New Deal (Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty) Sign up to receive the weekly Climate Beat newsletter. In the first presidential debate, in September, Donald Trump was eager to attack his opponent’s $2 trillion plan to address the climate crisis. “He’s talking about a […]
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Democratic Lawmakers Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez And Sen. Ed Markey Unveil Their Green New Deal Resolution (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty) No matter which candidate wins the US presidential election, the Green New Deal is likely to remain central to debates about climate policy. It’s past time for news coverage to spell out what a Green New […]
Photo by David McNew/Getty Images News / Getty Images Sign up to receive the weekly Climate Beat newsletter. On Sunday night, America met Michael Mann on “60 Minutes”, one of the country’s most watched and influential television news programs for nearly 50 years now. A professor at Penn State University, Mann is one of the world’s most […]
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Activists In Edinburgh Join The Global Climate Strike. (Photo by Jeff J Mitchell/Getty) From artists and writers to students, and activists, young people have upended the climate conversation by organizing, protesting, and pressuring governments to take action for their future. To encourage more insightful coverage of what they want and how their work fits in […]
US President Donald Trump and Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden participate in the first presidential debate on September 29, 2020 in Cleveland, Ohio. (Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images) Sign up to receive the weekly Climate Beat newsletter. Our Columbia Journalism Review colleague Jon Allsop called it “a speck of light on a dark night”: Chris Wallace of Fox […]
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Chris Wallace of Fox News will moderate the first presidential debate on September 29, 2020 (Photo: Getty) At tonight’s presidential debate in Cleveland, moderator Chris Wallace of Fox News will doubtless ask Donald Trump about the blockbuster New York Times report that Trump paid only $750 in federal income taxes in both 2016 and 2017 and no federal income […]
Sign up to receive the weekly Climate Beat newsletter. In this autumn of horrific fires and deadly floods, it’s easy to overlook one bit of promising news on the climate front: Some major US media coverage of the crisis is finally getting better. We’re seeing the evidence this week as Covering Climate Now—a collaboration of four […]
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