Resources

CCNow Guides

Tips and story ideas from us

• Best Practices

  13 essentials to get the climate story right

• Covering Climate Across Beats

  Burning questions on popular news beats, incl. politics, business, health, and more

• Climate Justice

  Cover climate change as a matter of racial, economic, and environmental justice

• Climate Solutions

  Any complete telling of the climate story includes its solutions | En español

• Extreme Weather

  Extreme weather stories are climate stories, but often journalists miss the connection

• Food & Water

  The climate connections to food and water will resonate with audiences everywhere

• Local & Regional Resources

  US orgs to help you find sources and dig deeper

Community Guides

Tips and story ideas from our friends

• SEJ: Climate Resource Guide

  From the Society for Environmental Journalists, a wide-ranging how-to

• SEJ: TipSheet

  A biweekly source for story ideas, interview leads, and more

• NPR: Climate Guide

  From NPR’s climate editors, a handy “cheat sheet” for journalists, shared with CCNow

• SJN: Covering Climate Equitably

  From the Solutions Journalism Network, how to center justice and equity

• ‘Reporting in Indigenous Communities’

  The indispensable checklist for reporting on Indigenous groups with nuance and respect

• EJN: Reporter Resources

  From the Earth Journalism Network, a range of guides, toolkits, and explainers

• GIJN: Investigative Angles

  From the Global Investigative Journalism Network, 10 investigative paths to follow

• ‘Trauma-informed Journalism’

  From the Journalist’s Resource, a reflective guide to understanding trauma

• Climate Reporting Masterclass

  Free and flexible learning, by leaders in the climate and journalism fields alike

The Science

Not just the basics

• Climate Science 101

  Renowned climate scientist Katharine Hayhoe shares the basics with CCNow

• The UN IPCC

  The world’s leading authority on the science of climate change, the IPCC issues can’t-miss reports that are news events in themselves

• Project Drawdown: Solutions 101

  From the gold standard in climate solutions, video explainers to introduce the basics

• Project Drawdown: Solutions Library

  A comprehensive review of credible ways to rein in global carbon emissions

• ‘Why 1.5 Degrees Celsius Matters’

  The facts behind the world’s goal to limit global warming — and what happens if we fail

• ‘How to Make the Climate Connection’

  On one handy page, tips for invoking climate change in your extreme weather coverage

• ‘It’s Scientists Who Say It’s a Climate Emergency’

  The fact-based reasons world scientists and leaders say we face a ‘climate emergency’

Sources

Contact experts, activists, and more

• SciLine

  Get matched with media-ready science experts, incl. for on-camera interviews

• DeSmog: Climate Scientists

  Go-to climate scientists in North America, Europe, and Oceania

• CB: Global South Climate Database

  From Carbon Brief, a searchable database of climate experts from across the Global South

• WMC: SheSource

  From the Women’s Media Center, a database of US women experts

• Diverse Sources (BETA)

  A searchable database of underrepresented science, health, and environmental experts

• SEJ: US Federal Agencies

  List of climate and environment-adjacent agencies, with contacts

Public Opinion

Polls and surveys on climate change

• Yale: ‘Climate Chg. in the American Mind’

  One priceless resource of many from the Yale Program on Climate Chg. Communication

• Yale: US Climate Opinion Maps

  State by state, county by county, where Americans stand on climate

• Yale: ‘International Public Opinion’

  With data collected from 192 countries and territories worldwide

• Climate Nexus

  Ongoing, issue-based polling in the US, from Yale and George Mason universities

• Pew Research: Climate & Environment

  Dependable, worldwide research on top climate, energy, and environmental questions

• UNDP: ‘Peoples’ Climate Vote’

  Enormous 2021 survey from the UN Development Programme, showing 64% globally call climate change an ‘emergency’

Visuals & Data

Tools to illustrate the climate story

• Climate Central: Resources

  A wealth of visuals and analysis tailor-made for news outlets

• Climate Signals

  Curating climate ‘attribution science’ and real-time analysis of extreme weather events

• Climate Visuals

  A treasure trove of low and no-cost climate-related photography

• Climate Watch

  Open-source data and visualizations tracking global climate progress

• NASA: Climate Resources

  Multimedia and graphic resources, specifically for media use

• WRI: Resource Watch (BETA)

  From the World Resources Institute, robust data to visualize climate change and more

Newsletters

A sampling from our inbox

• ‘The Climate Beat’

  From CCNow, weekly reporting guidance and media analysis, with top stories, career opportunities, and more

• Climate Nexus: ‘Hot News’

  A daily summary of the latest climate and energy news

• ICN: ‘Today’s Climate’

  From Inside Climate News, an insightful, twice-weekly column and headline round-up

• Bloomberg: ‘Green Daily’

  A daily digest of climate news and insights, including the latest in green tech and finance

• NY Times: ‘Climate Forward’

  The New York Times’s twice-weekly ‘guide to the climate crisis’

• WaPo: ‘The Climate 202’

  The Washington Post’s daily look at climate news and policy

• LA Times: ‘Boiling Point’

  From the Los Angeles Times, weekly climate news from the American West

• Atmos: ‘The Frontline’

  Weekly stories and commentary, with an emphasis on climate justice

Podcasts

A sampling from our earbuds

• Climate One

  Standard-bearing weekly podcast, with a global lens and big-name guests

• Climate Now

  Sharp weekly interviews with scientists and experts from a range of disciplines

• Drilled

  Award-winning narrative journalism taking a true-crime approach to the climate story

• Canary Media: ‘The Carbon Copy’

  Weekly narrative news about 'the business and tech trends shaping decarbonization'

• MPR: ‘Climate Cast’

  Every week, Minnesota Public Radio unpacks the latest climate change

• America Adapts

  Semi-regular conversations on choices the US will face and the people making them

Networking

Collaboration makes us stronger

• CCNow’s Slack Workspace

  A gathering point for journalists to share story ideas, resources, and opportunities

• Society of Environmental Journalists

  Mainstay membership association in North America supporting excellent journalism on environmental issues

• The Oxford Climate Journalism Network

  Part of the Reuters Institute, OCJN fosters a global climate journalism exchange

• Earth Journalism Network

  EJN supports environmental journalism especially from developing countries

• The Uproot Project

  A network for journalists of color who cover climate and the environment

• CLEW Journalism Network

  From Clean Energy Wire, a global network of journalists covering the energy transition