The conversation has been edited for length and clarity. Follow Pugliese on Twitter. Tell us a bit about yourself and your path to this new job at the Observer. Well, I’ve been in journalism for about 20 years. The Aboriginal People’s Television Network was my first serious job. And that was trial-by-fire, because at the […]
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Sign up to receive our weekly newsletter It’s Hurricane Preparedness Week, a campaign led by the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) to encourage the public to “be ready for hurricane season.” Journalists need to be ready too. While the official start to hurricane season is still a month away, NOAA reminds us that in […]
Sign up to receive our weekly newsletter Fossil fuel companies have been lying for decades about climate change, and humanity and natural systems everywhere are paying the price. And more suffering, loss, and damage lie ahead, because those same companies, and the politicians who do their bidding in Washington and other world capitals, continue to […]
Sign up to receive our weekly newsletter It’s been a packed Earth Week. First off, we’re thrilled to announce the finalists for the 2022 Covering Climate Now Journalism Awards! This year CCNow received more than 900 award submissions from 65 countries for 18 categories, including long and short-form print and video coverage, audio, photography, commentary, […]
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Sign up to receive our weekly newsletter Since Paris, “the world seemed to have swerved sharply away from democracy and toward autocracy — and in the process dramatically limited our ability to fight the climate crisis.” So wrote Bill McKibben in a Guardian article on Monday launching Covering Climate Now’s latest joint reporting project, “Climate […]
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“It’s now or never” if we want to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius and avoid the worst impacts of climate change, said scientist Jim Skea, a co-chair of the new Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report released Monday. And how exactly do we keep the 1.5C target in reach? In an unprecedented development, […]
Since Russia’s war in Ukraine began, there’s been much talk about the pursuant energy crisis and the world’s need for a clean-energy transition. Though the implications for climate change are significant, journalists have only sometimes spelled them out in their coverage. Now, there is another crisis emerging as a knock-on effect of the war: the […]
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Sign up to receive our weekly newsletter Since Russia’s war in Ukraine began, there’s been much talk about the pursuant energy crisis and the world’s need for a clean-energy transition. Though the implications for climate change are significant, journalists have only sometimes spelled them out in their coverage. Now, there is another crisis emerging as […]
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Sign up to receive our weekly newsletter. Fridays For Future, the youth climate movement ignited three years ago by Greta Thunberg’s school strikes, is holding another day of global protest tomorrow, March 25. For journalists, protests of this scale are a reminder that activists are newsmakers just like politicians and CEOs, and news coverage should […]
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