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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A new poll on behalf of The Guardian,Vice Media Group and Covering Climate Now, finds a majority of voters support climate action and for questioning the presidential candidates about climate change during the upcoming debates. Nearly two-thirds (65%) of registered voters say they are more likely to vote for a candidate who supports 100% clean […]
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Our Climate Politics 2020 joint coverage week, September 21-28, has launched! Together we’re making some noise so voters know what’s at stake for the planet and humanity when they head to the ballot box this November. A number of our partners have started the week by lifting up the voices of those who will be […]
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Photo by David McNew/Getty Images News / Getty Images Sign up to receive the weekly Climate Beat newsletter. The Climate Beat will be taking a week off next week to prepare for our Climate Politics joint coverage week, from September 21-28. As world governments recover from Covid-19 shutdowns, it is essential that stimulus spending combat the climate […]
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