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January 23, 2025

Is Insurance the Next Big Climate Story?

Check out this week’s webinar and background pieces to start reporting on the climate-insurance connection.

January 16, 2025

A Media Miss on LA’s Mega-Fires

Most coverage has not even mentioned climate change

January 9, 2025

Disinformation and the Los Angeles Fires

Journalists can use “truth sandwiches” to debunk climate lies

November 11, 2024

What the Election of Donald Trump Means for Ongoing Climate Action

Inside: Reporting ideas about the election’s impact on climate

November 4, 2024

Reporting on the Day After

Inside: Reporting ideas about the election’s impact on climate

October 28, 2024

How Hurricanes Helene and Milton Delivered an October Surprise

Yet more evidence that climate is paramount in this election — and that its outcome will bear direct consequences as unnatural disasters increase

January 7, 2025

Covering Heat Pumps

Explore this modern technology — the cheapest, cleanest, and most energy-efficient way to heat (and cool) one’s home.

December 17, 2024

Covering Attribution Science

Understand how this rapidly improving field enables scientists to explore and quantify how climate change influenced a given weather event.

December 3, 2024

Covering Winter Weather

From snow droughts to warming temperatures, climate change is drastically changing our winters with far-reaching consequences.

April 10, 2024

Q&A: ‘Huge Blind Spot’: The 19th’s Jessica Kutz on Covering The Gender-Climate Connection

We spoke recently with The 19th's Jessica Kutz about stories that have exemplified her beat, the “egregious” gender-based oversights that permeate disaster planning and responses, and the opportunity for climate action to help rectify historical inequities.

January 18, 2024

Q&A: Le Monde Climate Journalist Nabil Wakim Envisions an ‘All-Climate Newsroom’

We spoke recently with Nabil Wakim, a climate and energy journalist at Le Monde, about the details and results of Le Monde’s climate training program, beats for which a culture shift might come more slowly than others, and the climate questions weighing heaviest on the newspaper’s audience.

June 19, 2023

Q&A: Guardian Climate Justice Reporter Nina Lakhani Asks Who Should Own the Climate Narrative

What would it look like to bring the climate story down to earth—and moreover to center our stories on those who are most vulnerable?

February 7, 2024

This Is the Year of the Climate Election. Journalists Should Cover It That Way

The press is covering the 2024 campaign as if climate isn’t on the ballot, but 56% of US voters are “concerned” or “alarmed” about the crisis

November 29, 2023

How TV News Can Help Save the Planet

Television stations should take the lead on transforming the global climate story into a local one.

March 20, 2023

Translating the IPCC Report Into Plain English

Today’s “final warning” requires urgent coverage. Here’s a cheat sheet to help you meet the moment.

December 2, 2024

Your Support Makes CCNow’s Work Possible

Giving today helps CCNow support journalists like you to tell the climate story

April 4, 2024

Subscribe to CCNow’s Climate and Elections Calendar

The 2024 calendar includes over 100 events, including key election dates, climate conferences, international summits, and more.

November 28, 2023

Covering Climate Now Launches New Training Program for Local TV

Aim is to help reporters, producers, and meteorologists produce more and better climate coverage

October 12, 2021

Greta Thunberg Is “Open” to Meeting Biden at UN Climate Summit

In the lead-up to COP26, the Swedish activist talks about Biden’s climate plan, the media’s responsibility, and what gives her hope.

December 2, 2020

UN Secretary General: Without the US in the Paris Agreement, Humanity Faces Climate ‘Suicide’

Joining China and other big polluters, Biden’s pledge of “net zero” US emissions by 2050 brings the Paris Agreement goals “within reach.”

September 9, 2020

UN Secretary General Says COVID-19 Spending Must Be “Climate-Smart”

Governments should use COVID-19 economic recovery for “massive investments” in green jobs and technologies, Secretary General António Guterres says in interviews by Covering Climate Now partners NBC News, Noticias Telemundo and Agence France Presse.