Press Contact: Colby Kelly, colby@coveringclimatenow.org Covering Climate Now invites journalists everywhere to submit work for the 2024 Covering Climate Now Journalism Awards, presented with the Columbia Journalism Review. Now in its fourth year, the …
Sign up to receive our weekly newsletter in your inbox. Deforestation in the Amazon has fallen by almost 50% in one year under President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, the Brazilian government said earlier this month. As much of the world heads to the polls …
In Dubai last month, the world’s governments reached a landmark agreement to “transition away from fossil fuels.” Now, the Biden administration faces a defining test of its commitment to that scientific imperative: a massive proposed expansion of liquefied …
Given the enormity of the climate crisis, how would it look for an entire newsroom to respond at scale? France’s largest newspaper, Le Monde, might have one idea. Over the past year, Nabil Wakim, a climate and energy journalist at Le Monde, has helped …
Sign up to receive our weekly newsletter in your inbox. Some four billion people — roughly half the human population — will get the opportunity to vote in 2024, making this the biggest election year of all time. Bangladesh went first, last Sunday, in an …
Sign up to receive our weekly newsletter in your inbox. A clear majority of the American public — 56% — is now either “concerned” or outright “alarmed” about climate change. That’s according to a new study by the Yale Program on Climate Change …
Sign up to receive our weekly newsletter in your inbox. The Climate Beat will be taking a break over the holidays and will return on January 4. Is the COP 28 agreement “a historic deal that will spell the eventual end of fossil fuels?” the Guardian’s …
A sunrise over mountains. Wild animals running free. A field of pristine solar panels. These are the images at the top of a slickly produced promotional video for the Saudi Green Initiative, which pledges bold vision and leadership in the fight against …
“The 1.5-degree limit is only possible if we ultimately stop burning all fossil fuels,” UN Secretary-General António Guterres said last Friday in Dubai. “Not reduce. Not abate. Phaseout — with a clear timeframe aligned with 1.5 degrees C.” Guterres made …
Inequality has always been at the heart of the climate crisis. Traditionally, inequality between countries has loomed largest: Rich countries have been responsible for the most greenhouse gas emissions, but poor countries have suffered the most from the …
Covering Climate Now, the global media collaboration, is expanding its newsroom training initiatives to strengthen climate coverage on local TV stations across the US. The project, called The Climate Station, builds on Covering Climate Now’s existing work …
This story was originally posted in The Nation. At this week’s COP28 climate meeting in Dubai, the focus will rightly be on the state of the planet. A record number of delegates—some 70,000 people, including heads of state—will be haggling over ways to …
This week’s Climate Beat included a broken link to the Yale Program on Climate Change Communication study. The link has been corrected below. Most people don’t know as much about climate change as they think they do. That’s according to a landmark survey …
New data published last week by Le Monde, the Guardian, and other news outlets, document 422 oil, gas, or coal production sites, whose potential greenhouse gas emissions would destroy any chance of limiting global temperature rise to 1.5 degrees Celsius …
Climate justice has lost a towering figure. And with the COP28 climate summit opening four weeks from today, journalists have lost an invaluable source — a peerless guide to the insider maneuverings, power politics, and especially the moral questions at …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
