For the past couple of years, freelance journalist Ritwika Mitra has focused much of her work on communities at the “front lines” of the climate emergency in her native India, reporting closely on the human impacts of this accelerating crisis. In particular, she has reported from the Sundarbans, a large coastal region stretching across parts […]
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Writing in the Los Angeles Times on Monday, Bill McKibben and Rev. Lennox Yearwood, Jr. urged President Joe Biden’s administration to block “a massive fossil fuel buildout” being proposed in Louisiana. The argument they make is worth journalists’ attention, for it highlights a central challenge often overlooked in climate coverage. It’s indisputably good news that […]
The war between Israel and Hamas is a humanitarian crisis that also jeopardizes much-needed international progress on climate change. As with the war in Ukraine, the new war in the Middle East threatens to spread to other countries, drive world oil prices and inflation higher, and discourage the international cooperation needed to tackle the climate […]
Something remarkable happened on NBC television stations the other day. NBC local affiliates across the country aired a story that explicitly named the climate emergency as a scientific reality, not just an activist demand. And from that foundation, Chase Cain, a national climate reporter for the NBC Owned Television Station Group, then explored what government […]
Kyle Pope, a co-founder of the global journalism collaboration Covering Climate Now, is joining CCNow’s expanding leadership team as the accelerating urgency of the climate crisis demands that news media everywhere improve their coverage of the defining story of our time. CCNow, founded in 2019, partners with more than 600 news outlets reaching a total […]
The “Climate Changes Everything: Creating A Blueprint For Media Transformation” conference last week at Columbia Journalism School in New York City was a roaring success on all levels. If you missed it, watch the livestream here. Meanwhile, a few highlights: Our live interview with former UNFCCC executive secretary Christiana Figueres made news around the world. […]
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Climate Week NYC started with a bang this year as tens of thousands of people took to the streets of New York to pressure world leaders to end the use of fossil fuels. As the climate crisis accelerates, and the public’s outcry grows more insistent, the US’s paper of record met the moment: On Monday, […]
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The global journalism collaboration Covering Climate Now today announced the winners of the 2023 Covering Climate Now Journalism Awards, which are rapidly becoming the industry standard of excellence in climate journalism. More than 100 distinguished journalists from around the world chose the 2023 winners from nearly 1,100 entries submitted by colleagues in 29 countries. See […]
An overheated planet is “even more frightening than a nuclear war,” US president Joe Biden said on Sunday in a remark that’s gotten less news coverage than it deserves. Responding to a question from Agence France-Presse White House correspondent Aurelia End following Biden’s visit to Vietnam, the president added that if global temperatures over the […]