Covering Tourism

Traveler in Iceland

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: Tourism Rising sea levels, more frequent extreme weather, and other climate-fueled hazards are reshaping tourism across the world. Look no further […]

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The AI Boom Is a Climate Bust

“I think AI will probably, like, most likely, sort of lead to the end of the world,” Sam Altman said in 2015, the year he co-founded Open AI, the artificial intelligence company that made him a billionaire. But not to worry, he added: “in the meantime, there will be great companies created with serious machine […]

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Cómo la guerra en Irán afecta a la economía y la agenda climática en Latinoamérica

La guerra de Estados Unidos e Israel contra Irán está teniendo consecuencias globales, también en Latinoamérica y España: suben los combustibles, y con ellos, el resto de los precios de consumo. Mientras, la ventana de oportunidad para la transición energética en la región corre el riesgo de cerrarse por asfixia financiera. La pregunta climática no […]

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Are Plastics Poisoning Us?

Plastic bottles

“Plastics are everywhere in modern life,” Covering Climate Now wrote in a Climate Beat column in February 2024. “And since plastics are forever, the world’s seas are now littered with massive gyres of plastic waste — billions of tons of used food containers, water bottles, fishing gear, and other items that fragment into microplastics, ‘wreaking […]

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Covering Allergies

Allergy season

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: Allergies Affecting nearly one in three adults worldwide, allergies may be one of the most widely tangible impacts of our warming […]

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