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Episode 56: The Climate, the Environment, and the Media: Part 2

The Biggest Problem in the World? Media Networks Remain Oblivious

Broadcast and cable news coverage of Hurricane Laura was shallow and decontextualized

Broadcast and cable news coverage of the latest record-breaking heat wave in the West mentioned climate change but largely ignored its effects on vulnerable populations

The media’s climate coverage is improving, but time is very short

Latest AP coverage of wildfires in western U.S. fails to even acknowledge climate change

Corporate broadcast TV news fails to make crucial connection between record-breaking California wildfires and climate crisis

What do voters want? Climate Action!

Voters Want to See More Climate Coverage in the MediaFor decades scientists have been sounding the alarm about the climate crisis and its dire implications for our world.

Guardian/Vice poll finds most US 2020 voters strongly favor climate actionSeven in 10 support government action to address crisis – and young Republicans are less accepting of their party’s inaction

World’s largest survey of public opinion on climate change: a majority of people call for wide-ranging action | United Nations Development ProgrammeUNDP's "Peoples' Climate Vote" reflects over half the world's population after results processed by the University of Oxford. Sixty-four percent of people believe climate change is a global emergency, despite the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic

How Can They do Better?

The media are complacent while the world burns<p>This article is being jointly published with The Nation, CJR’s partner in a April 30 conference aimed at reframing the way journalists cover climate change. More information about the conference, including a link to RSVP, is here. Last summer, during the deadliest wildfire season in California’s history, MSNBC’s Chris Hayes got into a revealing […]</p>

Transforming the media’s coverage of the climate crisis<p>At the end of April, CJR and The Nation announced plans for a new initiative to dramatically improve the media’s coverage of the most urgent story of our time. Since then, interest in our Covering Climate Now project has been enormous. To answer questions about it, and to outline how news outlets across the country […]</p>

COVID-19 Has Lessons for Journalists Covering the Climate Crisis<p>This story was originally copublished by the Columbia Journalism Review and The Nation as part of Covering Climate Now, a global journalistic collaboration to strengthen coverage of the climate story. THE CORONAVIRUS PANDEMIC is a tragic reminder of just how essential fact-based, outspoken journalism is, especially in times of crisis. Without it, people die. In […]</p>

The media is failing on climate change – here's how they can do better ahead of 2020We spoke to climate change experts for advice on how news outlets can cover the environment in ways that make voters listen

A new commitment to covering the climate story<p>“Can we tell the story so people get it?” That’s the mission TV newsman Bill Moyers urged at the launch of Covering Climate Now, a project aimed at breaking the climate silence that has long prevailed within too much of the news media. Co-founded by The Nation and the Columbia Journalism Review, in partnership with […]</p>

How well does the media cover the climate movement?<p>This Friday, March 19, thousands of young activists around the world will march and strike for climate action as part of Fridays for Future, a movement launched by Greta Thunberg and other organizers. Events are planned on five continents. The theme: #NoMoreEmptyPromises. “Those in power continue to only deliver vague and empty promises for far […]</p>

The climate crisis is a story for every beat

National Reporting Network - Inside Climate NewsA national ecosystem that informs the public about critical environmental issues is collapsing, and its survival hinges on an endangered species: the local environmental journalist. Inside Climate News is working hard to bring this species back from the brink through our National Environment Reporting Network.

The biggest story in the world podcastClimate change is the biggest story journalism has never successfully told. The Guardian’s editor-in-chief, Alan Rusbridger, has decided to change that. This podcast series follows Rusbridger and his team as they set out to find a new narrative on the greatest threat to humanity

Taylor Swift's Legs and Climate Change

The Sharing of Good News

World’s first long-range solar electric vehicle revealedThe Lightyear One is a long-range solar car. Co-created by Bridgestone and Lightyear, it will begin testing in quarter two of this year.

Lightyear Unveils the World's First Long-range Solar Car/PRNewswire/ -- Lightyear, a pioneer in clean mobility, introduced the first long-range solar car today. The prototype was presented to investors, customers,...

Lightyear unveils the world’s first long-range solar carLightyear, a pioneer in clean mobility, introduced the first long-range solar car today.

Forest the size of France regrown worldwide over 20 years, study findsNearly 59m hectares of forests have regrown since 2000, showing that regeneration in some places is paying off

Climate Media Resources

HomeThe Climate Media Centre is a not-for-profit PR agency and spokesperson bureau that connects the media with stories that matter from real people on the ground in Australia experiencing climate change.

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Climate Change Media PartnershipThe Climate Change Media Partnership (CCMP) has been organizing Fellowships for developing country journalists to UNFCCC and other major events. The CCMP aims to improve media coverage of climate change, and therefore increase public engagement in the issue with a focus on developing countries and especially in critically affected regions.

Climate Media Factory

Our communication tools and stories bring scientific knowledge and innovative concepts for sustainable futures to decision-makers and into society.

Climate Media Lab

The Climate Media Lab at George Washington University strategizes to build climate communication for social change and to advance approaches based on climate science

Center for Media & Social ImpactStudying, Creating and Spotlighting Storytelling

Remember when Climate Change was Funny?

Great climate change comedy moments in video clips | Graham ReadfearnGraham Readfearn: From Will Ferrell to Ali G, here's a pick of some of the funniest moments in climate change comedy.

Ten funniest climate change videos everCarefully plucked like dew-covered orchids from the garden of YouTube, I hereby present the ten funniest videos about climate change which have ever been made, ever, by anyone, anywhere, ever – or at least of those I’ve seen. Which isn’t many.

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