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Media’s COVID-19 Coverage Proves It Could Also Spotlight Climate Crisis

Sign up to receive the weekly Climate Beat newsletter in your inbox. The coronavirus is a fierce reminder of just how much we need credible journalism, especially in times of crisis. And there’s been much to admire in the media’s coverage of the coronavirus crisis. Timely, accurate, high-profile reporting has helped Americans understand the danger of […]

The Corona Connection: Forest Loss Drives Viruses As Well As Climate Change

Photo: Joel Redman/If Not Us Then Who Editor’s note: This story is available for reprint by CCNow partners. Please see our reprint guidelines and photographs of the indigenous leaders quoted in this piece. B-roll, interview transcripts and further information can also be found here. NEW YORK–The same forest destruction that accelerates climate change can also […]

Press Briefing with a Global Alliance of Indigenous Peoples

FRIDAY, MARCH 13, 2020 10 A.M. EASTERN TIME STREAMED LIVE VIA GOOGLE MEET RSVP: https://forms.gle/CzSeNfBLMGqfdgdP6 As a precautionary response to the coronavirus, this will now be an online-only event. Indigenous Peoples may be the most important—yet most overlooked—climate solution available, according to peer-reviewed science. Hear three indigenous leaders tell how protecting their human and land rights […]

The Other Global Emergency: Coronavirus in the Time of Climate Change

Photo by David McNew/Getty Images News / Getty Images With the world in the grip of coronavirus fears, many are wondering why governments and people have proven so willing to take science seriously on that front while continuing to spurn climate action. Coronavirus is without doubt a serious issue; it has claimed at least 3,000 […]

Network News’s Climate Disappearing Act—Will 2020 Be Different?

America’s three mainstream television networks—ABC, CBS, and NBC—broadcast tens of thousands of news stories each year. But in 2019, only 0.7 percent of those stories addressed climate change, according to a new report by the left-of-center media watchdog group Media Matters. In other words, less than 1 out of every 100 network news stories talked […]

Donald Trump’s Climate Preparedness Policy: “Get Your Mops And Buckets Ready”

The Climate Beat On October 30, 1975, the New York Daily News published one of the great headlines of all time: “Ford To City: Drop Dead.” US president Gerald Ford had just announced that the federal government would refuse to bail out New York if the city government went bankrupt. Ford later said that the headline and […]

Does The Climate Crisis Threaten The End Of Big Oil?

Photo by Sjo/iStock / Getty Images The most exciting place for a climate journalist right now has to be the business beat. Investors face growing pressure to stop funding the fossil-fuel industry. Climate activists have been demanding such divestment for years, but now the calls are coming from the heights of the financial community. It’s […]

Australia Is Still Burning. Will The Media Stay With The Story?

The Climate Beat Photo by gajendra bhati/iStock / Getty Images The Climate Beat Scorching temperatures are again forecast in Australia over the coming days, even as the country struggles to recover from some of the worst bushfires in its history. The impending heat wave is expected to spark more blazes, as two years of withering drought […]

A “Sense of Urgency” Is Driving More and Better Climate Coverage

Photo by kieferpix/iStock / Getty Images Some great news on the climate coverage front: Two Covering Climate Now partners—the global news agency Bloomberg and the muckraking podcast Drilled—have announced major expansions of their climate commitments. So has National Public Radio, which is not a CCNow partner, though a number of NPR programs and local member stations […]