Twice each month, Covering Climate Now speaks with different journalists about their experiences on the climate beat and their ideas for pushing our craft forward. This week, we spoke with Obi Anyadike, the Africa editor for the New Humanitarian, a nonprofit newsroom reporting on humanitarian crises worldwide. We spoke about the emerging hunger crisis in East […]
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Sign up to receive our weekly newsletter If you’re covering climate change, history shows that one of the smartest things you can do is pay attention to activists. Time and again, they have inadvertently indicated where the climate story was heading — and thus what journalists had to be prepared to cover. Covering Climate Now has […]
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Climate survival is on the ballot in November’s US midterm elections, even if most Americans don’t know it yet. During the 61 days remaining before Election Day, journalists can help voters understand that the choices they make will profoundly influence whether today’s young people inherit a livable planet or not. According to opinion polls, Americans […]
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Sign up to receive our weekly newsletter When Islamic militants attacked the al-Hayat hotel in Mogadishu on August 19, the world’s biggest news organizations snapped to attention. Within hours, reports ran on leading TV and radio networks and newspapers around the world. Most of those outlets did not have their own journalists on the scene, so […]
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Twice each month, Covering Climate Now speaks with different journalists about their experiences on the climate beat and their ideas for pushing our craft forward. This week, we spoke with Lagipoiva Cherelle Jackson, a Samoan native and longtime journalist covering climate and environmental issues in the Pacific Islands. Jackson is the recipient of a Covering […]
Sign up to receive our weekly newsletter On Tuesday, President Joe Biden signed into law the biggest climate legislation in United States history. Though much more must be done, the Inflation Reduction Act puts the US more steadily on a path toward cutting emissions by 2030 as much as science requires to avoid climate change’s worst impacts. […]
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Sign up to receive our weekly newsletter In many regards, the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 is a story of contradictions. Narrowly passed over unanimous Republican opposition in the Senate last week, the bill is expected to pass the House of Representatives soon. The IRA bill devotes $369 billion to accelerate the transition to green energy, […]
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Sign up to receive our weekly newsletter Will the US Senate pass the new Manchin-Schumer bill, also known as the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022? That’s the climate question of the week (and possibly the year). Given all 50 Senate Republicans’ lockstep opposition to serious climate action, the vote is expected to be close. It comes […]
Twice each month, Covering Climate Now speaks with different journalists about their experiences on the climate beat and their ideas for pushing our craft forward. This week, we spoke with Marianne Lavelle, who covers politics for Inside Climate News. Lavelle has reported on energy, the environment, and climate change from Washington, D.C. for more than […]
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