No surprise, then, that polling also shows that the vast majority of people want their government to take stronger climate action. Journalism that connects those dots — accurately and fairly, and without pulling any punches — is a true public service. Read more in this week's #ClimateBeat...
An Overlooked Trump Scandal — Covering Climate Now
With the US midterm elections less than three weeks away, is it any surprise that corruption has emerged as voters’ top concern? “Corrupt” was the adjective most often chosen when registered voters we...
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October 15, 2026 at 9:39 PM
No surprise, then, that polling also shows that the vast majority of people want their government to take stronger climate action. Journalism that connects those dots — accurately and fairly, and without pulling any punches — is a true public service. Read more in this week's #ClimateBeat...
Great question! Our cofounder @markhertsgaard.bsky.social took up that question in this week's #ClimateBeat newsletter. It's too early to know for sure, but we're hopeful (as ever!) that it might represent a new trend in coverage. Read more ⤵️
Is Nepal a Turning Point in Climate Coverage? — Covering Climate Now
It’s been slow coming, but news coverage of climate change may at last be turning a corner. For years, reporting on climate-related disasters — the super-storm Hurricane Helene that blasted the southe...
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September 4, 2026 at 2:22 PM
Great question! Our cofounder @markhertsgaard.bsky.social took up that question in this week's #ClimateBeat newsletter. It's too early to know for sure, but we're hopeful (as ever!) that it might represent a new trend in coverage. Read more ⤵️
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Have We Forgotten Covid’s Lessons? — Covering Climate Now
In June, during the first of the record heatwaves to scorch Europe this summer, “the London Ambulance Service fielded over 53,000 calls, surpassing the number received when the Covid-19 pandemic was…
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August 21, 2026 at 4:15 PM
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The Labour government is once again burying an explosive report by UK military and intelligence leaders warning that the global collapse of ecosystems poses grave threats to the UK’s security and food supply within as little as five years.
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As Europe Burns, a Climate Coverup Continues — Covering Climate Now
“To cover up 1 high level report … looks odd,” remarked Caroline Lucas, the former leader of the UK’s Green Party. “To cover up 2 looks like a pattern.” Lucas was commenting on reporting in the…
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July 31, 2026 at 4:11 PM
The Labour government is once again burying an explosive report by UK military and intelligence leaders warning that the global collapse of ecosystems poses grave threats to the UK’s security and food supply within as little as five years.
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Read more about Hauc's public service reporting and how it's likely that “as the planet continues to warm, the game of soccer and sports more broadly will have to adapt” in this week's #ClimateBeat newsletter. coveringclimatenow.org/from-us-stor...
The World Cup Story (Almost) No One Told — Covering Climate Now
The 2026 World Cup will be remembered in part for bringing the term “hydration break” into the global football lexicon. For the first time in the Cup’s 96-year history, matches were interrupted midway...
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July 23, 2026 at 8:36 PM
Read more about Hauc's public service reporting and how it's likely that “as the planet continues to warm, the game of soccer and sports more broadly will have to adapt” in this week's #ClimateBeat newsletter. coveringclimatenow.org/from-us-stor...
Launching the next phase of reporting in CCNow’s 89 Percent Project, our interviews with a diverse collection of Pennsylvanians broadly confirmed these findings, with important caveats.
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July 16, 2026 at 9:21 PM
Launching the next phase of reporting in CCNow’s 89 Percent Project, our interviews with a diverse collection of Pennsylvanians broadly confirmed these findings, with important caveats.
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“Are you part of the 89%?”
A team of our reporters traveled through Pennsylvania last week asking that question, exploring what residents of that quintessential battleground state think about climate change and the fast-approaching US midterm elections.
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A team of our reporters traveled through Pennsylvania last week asking that question, exploring what residents of that quintessential battleground state think about climate change and the fast-approaching US midterm elections.
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Will Climate Voters Turn Out in Pennsylvania? — Covering Climate Now
“Are you part of the 89%?” A team of Covering Climate Now reporters traveled through eastern Pennsylvania last week asking people that question, exploring what residents of that quintessential…
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July 16, 2026 at 9:21 PM
“Are you part of the 89%?”
A team of our reporters traveled through Pennsylvania last week asking that question, exploring what residents of that quintessential battleground state think about climate change and the fast-approaching US midterm elections.
Read more in this week's #ClimateBeat:
A team of our reporters traveled through Pennsylvania last week asking that question, exploring what residents of that quintessential battleground state think about climate change and the fast-approaching US midterm elections.
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July 11, 2026 at 4:11 PM
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Some good climate news! At a time when some US news outlets have retreated from the climate story, hundreds of news organizations in Japan are headed in the opposite direction.
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Japan’s News Media Leads on Climate — Covering Climate Now
At a time when some US news outlets have retreated from the climate story, hundreds of news organizations in Japan are headed in the opposite direction. Inspired by Covering Climate Now’s 89 Percent…
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July 10, 2026 at 12:11 AM
Some good climate news! At a time when some US news outlets have retreated from the climate story, hundreds of news organizations in Japan are headed in the opposite direction.
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It's not all bad news! Here's some good news on the climate front that we've recently shared in our #ClimateBeat newsletter...
For first time, Americans are getting more of their electricity from solar than coal
Solar provides more than twice the share of electricity it did five years ago.
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June 23, 2026 at 4:11 PM
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OUT TODAY: “A Burning House, A Quiet Media, A Silenced Majority” looks at the state of climate journalism, how media has grown quiet on climate, and what we can do about it.
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Announcing ‘A Burning House, A Quiet Media, A Silenced Majority’ — Covering Climate Now
Covering Climate Now was launched in 2019 with the express intent of breaking the “climate silence” that prevailed in most news media. And for a few important years, that silence was broken. Now, much...
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April 16, 2026 at 4:09 PM
OUT TODAY: “A Burning House, A Quiet Media, A Silenced Majority” looks at the state of climate journalism, how media has grown quiet on climate, and what we can do about it.
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The First Conference on Transitioning Away From Fossil Fuels takes place April 24–29, bringing together 85 countries that support phasing out fossil fuels.
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Don’t Miss the Santa Marta Climate Conference — Covering Climate Now
Finally, some good news on the climate front. On Tuesday, Covering Climate Now reached a global audience with an article by Mark Hertsgaard and Kyle Pope explaining how a new economic superpower…
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The First Conference on Transitioning Away From Fossil Fuels takes place April 24–29, bringing together 85 countries that support phasing out fossil fuels.
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The AI Boom Is a Climate Bust — Covering Climate Now
“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…
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AI spreads disinformation and uses massive amounts of electricity and water. The AI boom, if it continues, is shaping up as a bust for climate survival.
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The AI Boom Is a Climate Bust — Covering Climate Now
“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…
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April 2, 2026 at 4:30 PM
AI spreads disinformation and uses massive amounts of electricity and water. The AI boom, if it continues, is shaping up as a bust for climate survival.
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Read more in this week's #ClimateBeat; plus, journalism job opportunities, resources to help you cover climate, and more:
A new Netflix documentary called The Plastic Detox exposes plastic’s health harms but misses its climate connection: They're made from fossil fuels.
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Are Plastics Poisoning Us? — Covering Climate Now
“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…
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March 26, 2026 at 6:05 PM
A new Netflix documentary called The Plastic Detox exposes plastic’s health harms but misses its climate connection: They're made from fossil fuels.
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Massive global majorities want climate action but think other people don’t. Why? Partly because Big Oil’s lies have been so successful, partly because we don't talk about climate enough.
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The Silencing Power of Big Oil’s Climate Lies — Covering Climate Now
“We’re seen as one of the bad guys.” That is a quote from an internal document of the oil and gas company BP, written in 2020. Climate change was by then attracting significant public concern and…
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March 19, 2026 at 5:28 PM
Massive global majorities want climate action but think other people don’t. Why? Partly because Big Oil’s lies have been so successful, partly because we don't talk about climate enough.
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Read more in this week's #ClimateBeat; plus, job opportunities, journalism resources, and more:
The effects of climate change are worsening, so why are much of the world’s media backsliding when it comes to the coverage of climate change?
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Read more in this week's #ClimateBeat; plus, journalism job opportunities, resources to help you cover climate, and more:
A World On Fire Needs More Climate Reporting — Not Less — Covering Climate Now
The effects of a warming Earth are worsening. Climate disinformation is rampant. Wars around the world are pitting petrostates against one another. So why are much of the world’s media backsliding…
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March 12, 2026 at 4:31 PM
The effects of climate change are worsening, so why are much of the world’s media backsliding when it comes to the coverage of climate change?
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Read more in this week's #ClimateBeat; plus, journalism job opportunities, resources to help you cover climate, and more:
In this week's #ClimateBeat: Bloomberg Green reveals the climate costs of the US-Japan trade deal, plus noteworthy stories, jobs, and more:
Japan’s New Climate Bomb — in the US — Covering Climate Now
Four years ago, The Guardian published a landmark expose that detailed a looming “carbon bomb” of oil and gas projects in the US. Damian Carrington and Matthew Taylor reported that the projects at…
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February 26, 2026 at 8:34 PM
In this week's #ClimateBeat: Bloomberg Green reveals the climate costs of the US-Japan trade deal, plus noteworthy stories, jobs, and more:
This week in #ClimateBeat: In the US, the very notion of public service journalism is under assault, at precisely the moment that it’s most needed. And climate journalism is a case in point. buff.ly/cM1IlKH
February 20, 2026 at 1:31 PM
This week in #ClimateBeat: In the US, the very notion of public service journalism is under assault, at precisely the moment that it’s most needed. And climate journalism is a case in point. buff.ly/cM1IlKH
Some of the world’s greatest winter sports athletes have called on the International Olympics Committee to stop taking fossil fuel industry money.
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February 6, 2026 at 9:15 PM
Some of the world’s greatest winter sports athletes have called on the International Olympics Committee to stop taking fossil fuel industry money.
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Citizen journalists are Minneapolis’s unsung heroes. Without their videos of ICE shootings, we wouldn’t know what's really going on.
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Citizen Journalists Are Minneapolis’s Unsung Heroes — Covering Climate Now
On Sunday afternoon, CNN anchor Jake Tapper was interviewing US representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez hours after Border Patrol agents killed Alex Pretti. Suddenly, CNN cut away to live coverage of ...
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January 30, 2026 at 8:40 PM
Citizen journalists are Minneapolis’s unsung heroes. Without their videos of ICE shootings, we wouldn’t know what's really going on.
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Climate in 2026: “People Really Do Care About This Stuff” — Covering Climate Now
“Protecting the climate and protecting our democracy are inextricably linked,” veteran climate reporter and activist Bill McKibben said last week at a Covering Climate Now press briefing on climate jo...
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January 23, 2026 at 9:40 PM
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January 16, 2026 at 5:13 PM
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But “climate hushing,” as the practice has come to be known, rests on a fundamental flaw: It focuses on only one form of climate realism, the political, while ignoring a more important one, the scientific.
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Getting Real About “Climate Hushers” — Covering Climate Now
“Let’s be realistic.” That’s the advice coming from a growing number of voices in climate circles in the US. In October, billionaire Bill Gates argued that a global temperature rise of 2 degrees Celsi...
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January 16, 2026 at 5:13 PM
But “climate hushing,” as the practice has come to be known, rests on a fundamental flaw: It focuses on only one form of climate realism, the political, while ignoring a more important one, the scientific.
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