Sign up to receive the weekly Climate Beat newsletter. Laypersons call it the Gulf Stream. It’s the current of relatively warm ocean water that flows from the Gulf of Mexico across the Atlantic ocean to Europe. And it’s a big part of why the British Isles and the rest of Europe enjoy the temperate climates […]
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Reporters need to get up to speed fast on the climate story both because scientists say humanity faces a climate emergency AND because the Biden administration is making climate change central to its economic, foreign policy, and social justice agendas. In our latest Talking Shop, we discuss how journalists can raise their own climate competence, […]
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Sign up to receive the weekly Climate Beat newsletter. Texas had only just frozen over. In the wake of a devastating winter storm, millions in the state were without power and struggling to find warmth. They boiled snow for water; some were dying. And against all evidence, the anti-climate political right was grousing about windmills […]
Texas struggles with unprecedented cold and power outages (Photo: Getty) Texas had only just frozen over. In the wake of a devastating winter storm, millions in the state were without power and struggling to find warmth. They boiled snow for water; some were dying. And against all evidence the anti-climate political right was grousing about […]
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Sign up to receive the weekly Climate Beat newsletter. Guest column by David Schechter of WFAA-TV When you’re a local journalist, like me, you become a collector of useful tidbits. A keeper of facts about your community. After a while, you end up knowing a little about a lot. Because of that, when big news happens, local […]
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Sign up to receive the weekly Climate Beat newsletter. Science tells us that the climate emergency is here now. From rising seas to raging wildfires, from sizzling heat to devastating storms and hurricanes, climate change is reshaping daily life in communities around the globe. If humanity doesn’t act, in a big way and soon, the future […]
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Sign up to receive the weekly Climate Beat newsletter. Activists have said they intend to hold feet to the fire on the new administration’s ambitious climate agenda, but so far they haven’t had to. On day one, Biden signed executive orders to rejoin the Paris Agreement, scuttle the Keystone XL pipeline, and consider revisions to […]
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For there is always light If only we’re brave enough to see it If only we’re brave enough to be it. Those are the closing words of “The Hill We Climb,” the stunning poem Amanda Gorman, the first Youth Poet Laureate of the United States, delivered yesterday at the inauguration of now-president Joe Biden and […]
Photo by Jon Cherry/Getty Images News / Getty Images Sign up to receive the weekly Climate Beat newsletter. It’s doubtful that Donald Trump or the bloodthirsty armed supporters who invaded the US Capitol threatening to kidnap or kill Vice President Mike Pence and Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi were thinking much about climate change […]