“It is a death sentence for us if larger nations continue to open new fossil fuel projects,” Feleti Teo, the prime minister of Tuvalu, said in 2024. Located roughly halfway between Australia and Hawaii, Tuvalu is a nation of extremely low-lying reef islands and atolls. Sea-level rise — driven primarily by burning fossil fuels, which boosts […]
LO QUE TIENES QUE SABER Cada año se publican decenas de miles de estudios científicos sobre el clima. Saber cuáles de estas historias vale la pena contar, cómo sacarles todo el jugo y cómo contarlas a nuestras audiencias son algunas de las habilidades más útiles para cualquier periodista. Esto es así tanto si cubres ciencia […]
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Welcome to Locally Sourced, a biweekly Covering Climate Now newsletter for journalists working to localize the climate story. Share this newsletter with colleagues and journalism students interested in localizing the climate story. Story Spark: Food Waste Wasting food not only goes against what you were taught as a child, it also has an astonishingly large […]
Does climate change doom New Orleans? That’s the upshot of a new scientific paper and the headlines it generated in The Guardian, CNN, and other international outlets. Rising global temperatures are melting vast amounts of the planet’s ice, and the run-off particularly threatens islands and delta regions like New Orleans, which sits at the mouth […]
LO QUE TIENES QUE SABER Ni los huracanes, ni las inundaciones, ni los incendios: el calor es el más letal de todos los impactos meteorológicos extremos. Según el informe Lance Countdown 2025, más de 540.000 personas mueren cada año a causa del calor en el mundo. Todas estas muertes son, según las Naciones Unidas, evitables. […]
“Future historians may well see the Iran war as the moment the US unwittingly ceded leadership to China” as the world’s pre-eminent superpower, writes Jonathan Watts in a reported essay in The Guardian published earlier this week. The piece came out on the heels of Donald Trump’s departure from Beijing after his summit with Chinese […]
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Welcome to Locally Sourced, a biweekly Covering Climate Now newsletter for journalists working to localize the climate story. Share this newsletter with colleagues and journalism students interested in localizing the climate story. Story Spark: Heat & Death Extreme heat kills more than half a million people every year, roughly one person a minute. It is […]
The signs now are that the hantavirus is not the next pandemic. But with 2026 predicted to be the hottest year on record, the hantavirus outbreak is a warning of what public health experts have long said: A hotter planet is a deadlier planet. Rising global temperatures and the impacts they trigger — harsher heat waves, […]