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People Are Talking About 2019

PEOPLE ARE TALKING ABOUT 2019

PEOPLE ARE TALKING ABOUT 2019

12/25/19

…what we see when we look back over the past year and the past decade…

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The New York Times

Climate Reporting in 2019: A Year of Warnings. And Also Hope.

By Christopher Flavelle 12/25/19
It was a big year for climate reporting, and not necessarily for the good news. Wildfires consumed vast parts of the Amazon and Arctic alike. Greenhouse gas emissions continued to rise, but President Trump served notice…
The Washington Post

The 2010s were a lost decade for climate. We can’t afford a repeat, scientists warn.

By Sarah Kaplan 01/02/20
At the start of the previous decade, Kallan Benson was 5 years old, her favorite story was “The Secret Garden,” and Earth was in the…
Media Matters

Climate coverage is improving, but challenges abound heading into 2020

By Evlondo Cooper 01/01/20
Marked by innovative initiatives and high-quality reporting, 2019 was a breakout year for climate journalism. But there is still work to be done. Broadcast and…
Smart Cities Dive

2019 Top News

By Kristin Musulin 12/30/19
THIS DECADE, MANY people around the world woke up to a grim reality: Climate change is here, it’s happening now, and it could very easily…
Climate Liability News

2019: The Year Climate Litigation Hit High Gear

By Karen Savage 12/30/19
One of the busiest years yet for climate litigation, 2019 was highlighted by favorable decisions handed down by some of the world’s highest courts.
CNN

Two Steps Forward 2019 was the year that…

By Joel Makower 12/30/19
It is always difficult to encapsulate a 12-month period, let alone the 365 turbocharged 24-hour news cycles that seem to have become the new normal.…
CNN

Shouting into the apocalypse: The decade in climate change

By John D. Sutter 12/29/19
THIS DECADE, MANY people around the world woke up to a grim reality: Climate change is here, it’s happening now, and it could very easily…
Inside Climate News

Climate Science Discoveries of the Decade: New Risks Scientists Warned About in the 2010s

By BOB BERWYN 12/28/19
The 2010s may go down in environmental history as the decade when the fingerprints of climate change became evident in extreme weather events, from heat…
OneZero.medium.com

The Biggest Lesson About Climate Change From 2019

By Bryan Walsh 12/26/19
OnDecember 11, two things happened that caught the attention of those invested in the fight against climate change, which at this point should include all…
WIRED

When the Transportation Revolution Hit the Real World

By Alex Davies 12/26/19
Ten years ago, they promised us self-driving cars. We got a scooter surge, clashes with regulators, and the brutal realities of mobility.
PBS

Despite extreme weather and surging activism, 2019 saw political paralysis on climate

By PBS NewsHour 12/25/19
By almost any measure, 2019 was a year of especially sobering news on climate change, with grim warnings about what could happen in the future…
Civil Eats

Our Best Climate Coverage of 2019

By The Civil Eats Editors 12/24/19
From regenerative agriculture to community resilience, climate change was front and center in our reporting in 2019. Here are some of our best stories.
World Resources Institute

6 Ways the Climate Changed Over the Past Decade

By Kelly Levin 12/20/19
THIS DECADE, MANY people around the world woke up to a grim reality: Climate change is here, it’s happening now, and it could very easily…
The Weather Channel

A Decade of Climate Change: Political Stasis in a Changing World

By Bob Henson 12/17/19
Leading climate researcher, Katharine Hayhoe (Texas Tech University), put it this way: “Every action matters. Every bit of warming matters. Every year matters. Every choice…
National Geographic

The decade we finally woke up to climate change

By ALEJANDRA BORUNDA 12/12/19
THIS DECADE, MANY people around the world woke up to a grim reality: Climate change is here, it’s happening now, and it could very easily…
Yale Climate Connections

The high and low points for climate change in 2019

By Bud Ward 12/11/19
Climate scientists list most encouraging, most discouraging, developments of 2019. (Part II, to come, on outlook for 2020)
TED.com

The case for optimism on climate change

By Al Gore 02/01/16
Why is Al Gore optimistic about climate change? In this spirited talk, Gore asks three powerful questions about the man-made forces threatening to destroy our…
Smart Cities Dive

Top 2019 News

By Kristin Musulin 12/28/19
The end of 2019 is quickly approaching, leaving a whirlwind of city-shaping news and developments in its wake.
12/15/19

… the resounding and disappointing outcome of COP25

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The New York Times

U.N. Climate Talks End With Few Commitments and a ‘Lost’ Opportunity

By Somini Sengupta 12/15/19
In what was widely denounced as one of the worst outcomes in a quarter-century of climate negotiations, United Nations talks ended early Sunday morning with the United States and other big polluters blocking even a…
Carbon Brief

COP25: Key outcomes agreed at the UN climate talks in Madrid

By Simon Evans 12/27/19
This year’s annual UN climate conference, COP25 in Madrid, became the longest on record when it concluded after lunch on Sunday, following more than two…
GreenBiz

Bad COP

By Joel Makower 12/16/19
If the sign of success for a negotiation is when no one gets what they want, then the COP25 climate conference, just ended, was an…
The Washington Post

U.N. climate talks end with hard feelings, few results and new doubts about global unity

By Brady Dennis and Juliet Eilperin and Chico Harlan 12/16/19
Global climate talks lurched to an end here Sunday with finger-pointing, accusations of failure and fresh doubts about the world's collective resolve to slow the…
Climate Home News

Cop25: What was achieved and where to next?

By Jocelyn Timperley 12/16/19
The annual UN climate talks closed in disappointment on Sunday in Madrid, after two weeks spent trying to hash out a deal.
Climate Change News

Irreconcilable rift cripples UN climate talks as majority stand against polluters

By Chloé Farand 12/15/19
The rift between a growing climate vanguard and a handful of countries obstructing progress meant countries failed to finalise the rules of the Paris Agreement…
The Washington Post

The Energy 202: Here’s why Pelosi is going to Madrid for a climate conference

By Dino Grandoni 12/02/19
President Trump isn’t going to Spain this week for a major international climate change conference. That isn’t a surprise, given everything he’s said and done…
12/04/19

… Countdown, a new partnership to fight climate change by TED and YOUTUBE

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The Verge

TED launches global climate initiative with help from YouTube

By Justine Calma 12/04/19
TED announced a new climate change initiative called Countdown with the help of YouTube and a coalition of global leaders and nonprofit environmental organizations today at an event in New York City. The effort plans…
TED

How we can turn the tide on climate

By Christiana Figueres and Chris Anderson 12/12/19
Witness the unveiling of Countdown, a major global campaign to cut greenhouse gas emissions. TED has partnered with scientists, policy makers, organizations, activists and more…
Forbes.com

TED Goes From Ideas To Action With Countdown

By Esha Chhabra 12/10/19
This year’s annual UN climate conference, COP25 in Madrid, became the longest on record when it concluded after lunch on Sunday, following more than two…
News18.com

TED Announces Countdown, a Climate Change Initiative in Association With YouTube

12/06/19
TED has announced a new initiative called Countdown in New York City. The new climate change initiative has been rolled out with the help of…
Medium.com

Join the COUNTDOWN — turning the tide on climate change

By Daniel Christian Wahl 12/05/19
TED-Global launches ZERO NET Emissions by 2050 initiative to build global collaboration across all sectors and among all of humanity to achieve net-zero emissions globally…
11/01/19

… Wildfires in California

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Los Angeles Times

California wildfires map

11/02/19
The most recent fire is the Sobrante fire, which started on Nov. 1. It is 0% contained and has burned 35 acres so far.The largest active fire is the Kincade fire, which has burned 77,758…
The Los Angeles Times

California heat waves are getting worse. Blame the vicious ‘heat dome’

By Grace Toohey and Alexandra E. Petri 08/31/22
The extreme temperatures that will bear down on California over the next week are the result of a “heat dome,” a phenomenon that typically brings…
San Francisco Chronicle

These maps show severe fires are morphing California forests into something we won’t recognize

By Yoohyun Jung 07/25/22
Many of the largest wildfires in recent U.S. history have happened in California just in the past few years, including last year's Dixie Fire, which…
ProPublica

California’s forever fire

By Elizabeth Weil 01/03/22
After another devastating year, it’s clear that Californians can’t keep trying to “fight” wildfires. Instead, they need to accept it as their new reality.
The New York Times

The Secret War Over Pentagon Aid in Fighting Wildfires

By William J. Broad 10/01/21
In July, as wildfires tore through the American West, President Biden met with the region’s governors to find better ways to battle the flames. Gov.…
The Guardian

Caldor fire: crews prepare for high winds that could fan northern California blaze

08/21/21
Crews were digging in and burning out fire lines amid fears that another round of high winds on Saturday could bring renewed fury to a…
The Los Angeles Times

California builds ‘Noah’s Ark’ as extinction looms – Los Angeles Times

By Louis Sahagún 08/18/21
It was just before sunrise in July when the botanists Naomi Fraga and Maria Jesus threw on backpacks and crunched their way across a brittle…
The Washington Post

‘Where do I go?’ Thousands flee as Dixie Fire morphs into third-largest blaze in California’s history

By Aaron Williams, Marisa Iati and María Luisa Paúl 08/06/21
Teresa Hatch, 61, had evacuated her rural Northern California town several days ago as the Dixie Fire menaced, but soon was allowed back. Then the…
Los Angeles Times

Massive wildfires on the West Coast send haze to the East again

By Gillian Flaccus 07/21/21
The wildfires raging in the western United States, including the massive Bootleg blaze in Oregon and fires in California, are creating hazy skies as far…
Washington Post

Colorado’s second-largest wildfire forecast to grow amid high winds

By Andrew Freedman 10/23/20
At least five people are missing in the East Troublesome Fire, which burned 140,000 acres in 24 hours
Civil Eats

What Impacts Do the West Coast Wildfires, Smoke Have on Crops?

By Virginia Gewin 10/13/20
On September 12, Iverson Family Farms posted ominous images on social media of their fields under a ruddy red sky, thick with a stagnant, dense…
CBS 60 Minutes

Climate scientists on 2020’s wildfires and storms

10/04/20
Is climate change reversible? Scott Pelley speaks with the "father of climate science" and others for an answer. Air Date: Oct 4, 2020
Guardian

California braces for dangerous heat as wildfire battle continues

by Gabrielle Canon 09/26/20
California is bracing for another dangerously warm weekend, with dry winds, parched vegetation, and triple-digit temperatures threatening to ignite new fires and complicating containment efforts…
The Washington Post

California will never stop burning

By Dan Zak 11/04/19
This is the Easy Fire, the one that gnawed the perimeter of the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library, and it quickly disappears from sight. It’s nighttime…
CNN

At least 13 wildfires are burning in California

By Nicole Chavez 11/01/19
Firefighters in California have been batting numerous blazes nonstop, trying to save millions of people and homes from the flames. The biggest fire, the Kincade…
NPR

Southern California Utility Says Wildfire Started Near A Re-Energized Power Line

By PAOLO ZIALCITA, RICHARD GONZALES 11/01/19
A Southern California utility said late Friday that minutes after it had restored electricity to a power line that had been shut off to prevent…
New York Times

Homes Burn in San Bernardino as California Battles Wildfires

By The New York Times 10/31/19
A new blaze known as the Hillside fire forced residents to flee as strong winds drove the flames.
New York Social Diary

California on my mind

By DAVID PATRICK COLUMBIA 10/31/19
PG&E turned off the grid. All on Marin County and beyond is in the fifth day of no electricity.
San Francisco Chronicle

Maps: How SF compares in size to California’s largest wildfires

By Chronicle Digital Team 10/29/19
To help visualize the immense size of the Kincade Fire in Sonoma County, graphic artist Todd Trumbull created these maps to compare the burn area…
Los Angeles Times

These are the largest wildfires burning in California now

By Erik Larson 10/09/19
California has seen almost 160,000 acres burn in wildfires in 2019, a fraction of the amount that had burned by this time last year, according…
10/21/19

… How courts in New York and Boston are taking fossil fuel companies to court over climate change deception.

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Climatechangecommunication.org

America Misled: How the fossil fuel industry deliberately misled Americans about climate change

By John Cook, Geoffrey Supran, Stephan Lewandowsky, Naomi Oreskes, Ed Maibach 10/19/19
Over the past few decades, the fossil fuel industry has subjected the American public to a well-funded, well-orchestrated disinformation campaign about the reality and severity of human-caused climate change.
Inside Climate News

Fossil Fuels on Trial: Where the Major Climate Change Lawsuits Stand Today

By David Hasemyer 01/17/20
Some of the biggest oil and gas companies are embroiled in legal disputes with cities, states and children over the industry's role in global warming.
HuffPost

28 Years Ago, Big Oil Predicted It Would Take A High Price On Carbon To Stop Warming

By Alexander C. Kaufman 12/03/19
As far back as 1991, the Canadian arm of Exxon Mobil Corp.’s empire anticipated that a high tax on carbon emissions would be necessary to…
EcoWatch

ExxonMobil on Trial Over Climate ‘Lies’

By Deutsche Welle 11/13/19
For analysts, one thing is clear: ExxonMobil needs new ways to revive itself. "The Stone Age didn't end because the stones ran out," analyst Stewart…
Bloomberg

Exxon’s Climate Trial Is Over, But the Legal War Is Just Beginning

By Erik Larson 11/13/19
A dozen “public nuisance” lawsuits accuse fossil fuel giants of hiding, and denying, their knowledge of global warming.
Desmog

As New York Takes Exxon to Court, Big Oil’s Strategy Against Climate Lawsuits Is Slowly Unveiled

By Dan Zegart 11/08/19
Tillerson's appearance was just one of several recent watershed moments for efforts to hold the fossil fuel industry accountable for its dominant role in causing…
The Wall Street Journal

New York Attorney General Drops Part of Exxon Case

By Corinne Ramey 11/07/19
The New York attorney general’s office Thursday dropped part of its securities-fraud case against Exxon Mobil Corp. on the final day of a rare climate-change-related trial that has pushed the…
InsideClimate News

Exxon’s Climate Fraud Trial Nears Its End: What Does the State Have to Prove to Win?

By Nicholas Kusnetz 11/06/19
With only days left before the two sides deliver their closing arguments, here's a look at what the attorney general needs to prove and how…
Climate Liability News

Exxon Opens Defense in New York Climate Fraud Trial

By Karen Savage 11/03/19
Auter’s testimony went right to that issue. “I did not appreciate the distinction of using the words greenhouse gas cost and proxy cost,” he testified.
Inside Climate News

Massachusetts Sues Exxon Over Climate Change, Accusing the Oil Giant of Fraud

By David Hasemyer 10/25/19
Exxon is facing allegations of deceptive advertising, misleading investors and actions that threaten the world economy. It's already on trial in New York.
Bloomberg

How Exxon’s Climate Change Trial Became a Battle Over Numbers

By Erik Larson 10/23/19
The oil company couldn’t stop New York’s lawsuit, but the evidence forced the state to pivot. Outside the courthouse, protesters just want Big Oil to…
Washington Post

The Energy 202: ExxonMobil goes on trial over accusations it misled investors about climate change costs

By Dino Grandoni and Steven Mufson with Paulina Firozi 10/22/19
ExxonMobil is facing one of its biggest legal threats ever as the state of New York takes the oil and gas giant to court over accusations it misled investors about…
Climate Liability News

New York Opens Trial Accusing Exxon of Defrauding Investors on Climate Risks

By Karen Savage 10/22/19
Judge Barry Ostrager [heard] the first arguments in a trial that will decide whether Exxon deceived investors in violation of the Martin Act, New York’s powerful…
LA Times

Report details how ExxonMobil and fossil fuel firms sowed seeds of doubt on climate change

By Susanne Rust 10/21/19
Two days before ExxonMobil goes to court Wednesday, facing New York state accusations the oil company misled investors about climate change, a team of researchers…
TIMES UNION

New York AG’s case against Exxon Mobil to start this month

By Rick Karlin 10/08/19
State contends oil giant concealed climate change costs, which company denies. Former Attorney General Eric Schneiderman may be gone from office, but the lawsuit be…
Jurist

Exxon Embraces Activism, at Least in the Courts

By Steven Shiffrin and Shanna Cleveland 11/20/18
Unfortunately, the Exxon case could become the latest chapter in what one legal scholar has called a corporate takeover of the First Amendment.
10/11/19

…Jane Fonda. Time for the old people to step up, take responsibility, and be as powerful for their generation as Greta is for hers.

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The Washington Post

Jane Fonda plans climate change civil disobedience on the Capitol steps

By Steven Mufson 10/11/19
Fonda takes on the role of climate activist and brings it to a new stage: the Capitol, where she will demonstrate until she is arrested. And she will do the same thing for 14 Fridays…
Los Angeles Times

Jane Fonda brings climate change protests to Los Angeles

By Maria L. La Ganga 02/02/20
The Oscar-winning actor had moved from Century City to Washington, D.C., in September, intent on a mission: to raise awareness of climate change. She protested on…
The Hill

Jane Fonda leads stars in final ‘Fire Drill Friday’ climate protest at the Capitol

By Danny Welch 01/10/20
In her final appearance at a series of protests, the 82-year-old actress called for divestment from fossil fuels — and a larger protest movement.
The New York Times

In Protesting Climate Change, Jane Fonda Brings Hollywood to Washington

By Elizabeth Williamson 12/28/19
The actress was joined by her “Grace and Frankie” co-star Lily Tomlin to headline a climate rally that offered plenty of chances to get arrested,…
TED Talks Daily

Why I protest for climate justice: Jane Fonda

Jane Fonda 12/16/19
At age 81, actor and activist Jane Fonda is putting herself on the line for the planet -- literally. In a video interview with TEDWomen…
CNN

Sally Field arrested at Jane Fonda’s climate protest

By Scottie Andrew 12/13/19
Sally Field was the latest star to join Jane Fonda's weekly climate protests. She left Friday's rainy demonstration in front of the Capitol in plastic cable…
The New York Times

Jane Fonda: The Climate Emergency Is a Political Emergency

By Jane Fonda 12/05/19
We must start to live our lives as if this is an emergency, because it is. Each of us one day will have to answer…
The Hill

Jane Fonda steps up climate fight as part of ‘Fire Drill Friday’

By Sutton Dunwoodie 11/29/19
Fonda said the agriculture sector should be transformed on the model laid out in the Green New Deal, a proposal introduced by Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.).
Buzzfeed News

Jane Fonda has a new mission: saving the world

By Michael Blackmon 11/29/19
At 81, the Hollywood icon is entering yet another stage in her life.
Entertainment Weekly

Diane Lane, Amber Valletta, and Piper Perabo arrested at D.C. climate protest

By Marcus Jones 11/22/19
This week’s demonstration focused on climate change’s threat to fresh water, with Fonda delivering a speech to the crowd that said, “At Standing Rock I…
Entertainment Weekly

Jane Fonda cheers on as TV daughter June Diane Raphael, CSI’s Marg Helgenberger arrested at D.C. protest

By Marcus Jones 11/15/19
The actress and activist’s TV daughters, June Diane Raphael and Brooklyn Decker, from Grace and Frankie joined Fonda at the demonstration, calling for the end of fossil fuel exploration and…
W Magazine

Jane Fonda Promises Her Red Coat is the Last Piece of Clothing She’ll Ever Buy Again

By Brooke Marine 11/15/19
Putting the words "celebrity" and "activist" next to one another makes for a fraught description of some members of Hollywood's A-list, but for decades, Jane…
The Hill

Jane Fonda leads DC climate protest for sixth straight Friday

By Sutton Dunwoodie 11/15/19
Actress Jane Fonda led a climate change protest on Capitol Hill for the sixth consecutive Friday, bringing along her now iconic red coat and a host of…
NPR

Jane Fonda Continues ‘Fire Drill Fridays’ To Protest Lack Of Action On Climate Change

Heard on All Things Considered 11/01/19
NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with actress Jane Fonda as she protests climate change on the grounds of the U.S. Capitol. Fonda has been arrested…
Variety

Jane Fonda Accepts BAFTA Award While Being Arrested (Video)

By Angelique Jackson 10/26/19
Jane Fonda may have just given the greatest acceptance speech of all time.
Variety

Jane Fonda, Ted Danson Arrested During Ongoing Climate Change Protest

By Alex Stedman 10/25/19
Jane Fonda was arrested (again) on Friday during an ongoing climate change protest in Washington D.C., and this time was joined by Ted Danson.
Deadline

Jane Fonda Arrested With ‘Grace And Frankie’ Costar Sam Waterston In Washington D.C. Climate Change Protest

By Ted Johnson 10/18/19
“People say that the Green New Deal is radical,” Waterston said at the rally. “What is radical is climate disruption.”
New York Times

Jane Fonda Arrested During Climate Protest Outside U.S. Capitol

By Neil Vigdor 10/18/19
The 81-year-old actress was charged with unlawful demonstration and was later released on her own recognizance, Capitol Police said.  
Los Angeles Times

Why Jane Fonda is moving to Washington (for now)

By Evan Halper and Anna M. Phillips 10/10/19
[Fonda] stopped by The Times’ Washington bureau to talk about the launch of her latest celebrity-packed action, where Jerry Brown inspired (and didn’t), and Fonda’s…
09/23/19

… Greta, and the media can’t stop covering her. She is our own Joan of Arc, a warrior and utterly unique.

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PBS NewsHour

WATCH: Greta Thunberg’s full speech to world leaders at UN Climate Action Summit

10/02/19
Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg chastised world leaders Monday, Sep. 23, for failing younger generations by not taking sufficient steps to stop climate change. "You have stolen my childhood and my dreams with your empty…
The Washington Post

Mnuchin said Thunberg needed to study economics before offering climate proposals. So we talked to an economist.

By Philip Bump 01/23/20
The Washington Post contacted someone who did study economics in college and asked him to explain it to us.
The New York Times

Greta Thunberg’s Message at Davos Forum: ‘Our House Is Still on Fire’

By Somini Sengupta 01/21/20
Greta Thunberg on Tuesday punched a hole in the promises emerging from a forum of the global political and business elite and offered instead an…
The Washington Post

The most depressing thing about Trump’s attack on Greta Thunberg

By Karen Tumulty 12/12/19
Early Thursday morning, President Trump took to Twitter (where his current follower count is 67.5 million) to attack a 16-year-old girl with Asperger’s syndrome and tell…
The Guardian

Greta Thunberg named Time magazine’s person of the year

By Karen Tumulty 12/11/19
Greta Thunberg, the teen activist from Sweden who has urged immediate action to address a global climate crisis, was named Time magazine’s person of the…
ABC News

Warming toll: 1 degree hotter, trillions of tons of ice gone

By Seth Borenstein 12/01/19
The world has gotten hotter, lost trillions of tons of ice and suffered more weather disasters since climate negotiations started
HuffPost

Photo From 1898 Sparks Hilarious Theory That Greta Thunberg Is A Time-Traveler

By Josephine Harvey 11/20/19
A picture from University of Washington’s archives has people joking the teen climate activist is a time-traveler here to “save us.”
The Guardian

Greta Thunberg leaves US with simple climate crisis message: vote

By Emily Holden 11/13/19
Thunberg: ‘My message to the Americans is the same as to everyone – to unite behind the science and to act on the science’
HuffPost

Leonardo DiCaprio Meets Greta Thunberg : ‘Leader Of Our Time’

By Lee Moran 11/02/19
Actor and environmentalist Leonardo DiCaprio has paid tribute to teenage climate activist Greta Thunberg, describing her as a “leader of our time.”
The Guardian

‘The climate doesn’t need awards’: Greta Thunberg declines environmental prize

By AFP in Stockholm 10/29/19
The Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg has refused to accept an environmental award, saying the climate movement needed people in power to start to “listen”…
Climate Crocks

Greta Thunberg in Iowa Visit: Inspiration, and Threats

By Peter Sinclair 10/07/19
OWA CITY, Iowa – The adults are still failing kids, Greta Thunberg told thousands of Iowans Friday.
The Sydney Morning Herald

Greta Thunberg made me rethink my air travel

By Amelia Lester 09/21/19
A few weeks ago, a 16-year-old from Sweden arrived in New York. All up, the journey took about two weeks; the Atlantic Ocean had been…
The Huffington Post

Greta Thunberg Takes Senators To Task: You’re Not Trying ‘Hard Enough. Sorry.’

By Nick Visser 09/18/19
“We don’t want to be heard," the 16-year-old climate activist told a task force of Senate Democrats. "We want the science to be heard.”
New York Times

Greta Thunberg, on Tour in America, Offers an Unvarnished View

By Somini Sengupta 10/02/19
Greta Thunberg, a climate activist from Sweden, spoke to Congress on Wednesday and submitted a report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change in place…
CLIMATECROCKS.COM

Greta Thunberg Helpline Now Available

09/30/19
If you’re a grumpy old codger with an uncontrollable urge to yell at a teenage girl on TV, there’s help.
Publisher's Weekly

Teen Activist Signs with Penguin

09/27/19
Teenage climate activist Greta Thunberg closed a two-book deal with Penguin Press, selling U.S. rights to a memoir and a collection of speeches. Thunberg, who…
Publisher's Weekly

How the Climate Kids Are Short-Circuiting Right-Wing Media

09/26/19
Young people like Greta Thunberg are participating in the culture wars while also managing to float above the fray. The kids aren’t just all right…
VOX

Why the right’s usual smears don’t work on Greta Thunberg

By David Roberts 09/26/19
To her considerable and growing list of accomplishments, 16-year-old Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg can now add another mark of distinction: She has been attacked…
The New Yorker

What makes teenagers March

By Alexandra Schwartz 09/20/19
Each generation inherits the messes made by its predecessors, and their mythologies, too. Like many nineties kids, I grew up on stories and photographs of…
The Guardian

Greta Thunberg and George Monbiot make short film on climate crisis

09/19/19
Environmental activists Greta Thunberg and George Monbiot have helped produce a short film highlighting the need to protect, restore and use nature to tackle the…
09/21/19

…The United National Climate Action Summit with hundreds of events taking place through NYC.

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New York Times

Climate Protesters and World Leaders: Same Planet, Different Worlds

By Somini Sengupta 09/21/19
On Monday, at the United Nations Climate Action Summit, comes a glimpse of how far presidents and prime ministers are willing to go. The United Nations secretary general, António Guterres, expects around 60 countries to…
Business Green

After a New York setback, can Glasgow revive international climate efforts?

By Ed King 10/01/19
"We have had a number of devastating setbacks; how these are handled is the making of a great team." I'm suffering Rugby World Cup fever…
Triple Pundit

Lessons from Climate Week: 3 Things Needed to Accelerate Change

By Ellen Jackowski 09/26/19
Climate Week NYC officially kicked off Monday, but arguably last Friday‘s Global Climate Strike set the stage for this week’s agenda. Like so many, I…
Intelligencer

Bill Gates: ‘I Don’t See Anything Worthy of the Word Plan’ to Fight Climate Change

By David Wallace-Wells 09/17/19
On September 23, the United Nations will open its Climate Action Summit here in New York, three days after the Global Climate Strike, led by Greta Thunberg,…
UN.ORG

UN Climate Action Summit, 2019

10/02/19
Global emissions are reaching record levels and show no sign of peaking. The last four years were the four hottest on record, and winter temperatures…
ITUC-CSI.ORG

UN Climate Action Summit is told ? climate action, jobs and Just Transition is possible

09/24/19
The ITUC has challenged governments at the UN Climate Action Summit in New York to make a living planet, secure jobs and decent work their…
Washington Post

Countries promise more aggressive action at U.N. climate summit, but is it enough?

By Brady Dennis and Juliet Eilperin 09/24/19
“You are failing us," 16-year-old Swedish activist Greta Thunberg tells world leaders. “The eyes of all future generations are upon you.”
BBC

Climate change: Impacts ‘accelerating’ as leaders gather for UN talks

By Matt McGrath 09/22/19
The signs and impacts of global warming are speeding up, the latest science on climate change, published ahead of key UN talks in New York,…
The Nation

Trump Will Snub the Climate Summit for a Religious Freedom Meeting at the UN

By Oliver Milman 09/20/19
Donald Trump is set to attend the United Nations headquarters during Monday’s key summit on the climate crisis—but will be there to take part in…
The Nation

What would real Commitment to the Paris Climate Agreement Look Like?

By Zoë Carpenter 09/19/19
The United States will be a nonentity at this fall’s UN climate summit. But the 2020 election is a chance to change the game.
09/20/19

…The Climate Strike, 7.6 million kids and their grown-up allies, marching all over the world, standing up, speaking up.

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New York Times

Protesting Climate Change, Young People Take to Streets in a Global Strike

By Somini Sengupta 09/20/19
Anxious about their future on a hotter planet and angry at world leaders for failing to arrest the crisis, masses of young people poured into the streets on every continent on Friday for a day…
This Spaceship Earth

Climate Protest Movements Aren’t Going Away

By Sean Munger 10/21/19
I’ve covered more speeches over the course of seven United Nations General Assemblies than I can remember. Never have I heard someone speak with such…
BuzzFeed

The Sunrise Movement Is Building An Army In The Early 2020 States

By Zahra Hirji 10/01/19
The Sunrise Movement is scaling up operations in Iowa and New Hampshire to mobilize young people demanding climate action to the polls in the early…
New York Times

A Week of Climate Action, and Inaction

By Somini Sengupta, Susan Shain and Christopher Flavelle 09/25/19
I’ve covered more speeches over the course of seven United Nations General Assemblies than I can remember. Never have I heard someone speak with such…
New York Times

Voices and Stories from the NYC Climate March

By Zach D. Roberts 09/25/19
Across the country and the world last Friday, kids and adults marched and rallied in solidarity in a Climate Strike. The NYC Mayors office puts…
New York Times

Meet 8 Youth Protest Leaders

By Somini Sengupta 09/20/19
Around the globe, young people are demanding action on climate change in a day of protest. Meet eight of the local leaders. Their cities are…
Washington Post

Speaking of Science from The Washington Post

By Sarah Kaplan 09/20/19
I was two hours and several miles from the start of New York’s climate strike, but it was already evident how big this event would…
Newsday

Students demonstrate on Long Island to demand action to stop climate change

By Khristopher J. Brooks and Jean-Paul Salamanca 09/20/19
Whether they trekked into Manhattan or traveled from school grounds to Town Hall, students on Long Island spoke up in unison Friday as youth across…
Gothamist

NYC Students Go On Strike To Demand Action On Climate Crisis

By Jake Offenhartz 09/20/19
Thousands of New York City's young people are once again taking to the streets to demand meaningful action in the face of a global climate…
New York Times

Teachers in New York City Barred From Attending Climate Protest

By Anne Barnard 09/19/19
Hanna and Kian Joulaee, twins and fifth graders at Public School 10 in Brooklyn, spent Wednesday night decorating signs and T-shirts for a rally in…
09/16/19

…A media initiative started by Columbia Journalism Review and The Nation & signed onto by 250 outlets.

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Columbia Journalism Review

A new beginning for climate reporting

By Mark Hertsgaard and Kyle Pope 09/16/19
Launched by the Columbia Journalism Review and The Nation, more than 250 news outlets have embraced their initiative to report on climate change this week — reaching more than a billion people. This is easily…
E&E News

Manchin’s strategy isn’t climate denial — it’s craftier

By Chelsea Harvey 12/23/21
Sen. Joe Manchin isn’t a climate denier — at least not in the traditional sense. He doesn’t deny the existence of human-caused climate change.
npr

What losing Build Back Better means for climate change

By Lauren Sommer 12/20/21
With billions of dollars for clean energy, the Build Back Better legislation has the potential to substantially and rapidly cut heat-trapping emissions in the U.S.…
LAPHAM'S QUARTERLY

Out of Time

By Astra Taylor 09/18/19
Twelve years, or so the scientists told us in 2018, which means now we are down to eleven. That’s how long we have to pull…
WBUR.ORG

How Reporters From Across The U.S. Cover The Climate Emergency

By Robin Young and Allison Hagan 09/17/19
Across the world, journalists are stationed from Antarctica to the Amazon covering how climate change is impacting people’s lives.  
CIVIL EATS

Investment in Regenerative Agriculture Connects the Dots Between Soil and Plate

By Nancy Matsumoto 09/17/19
The public and private sectors are rapidly picking up efforts to ramp up carbon farming.  
The Guardian

Sanders to attend latest climate forum while Biden and Warren pass

By Emily Holden 09/16/19
Kamala Harris, Beto O’Rourke and Amy Klobuchar to also miss the MSNBC event timed to align with global climate strikes
The Nation

A New Commitment to Covering the Climate Story

By Mark Hertsgaard and Kyle Pope 07/26/19
“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…
09/08/19

…Jonathan Franzen and his article in New York Magazine on the climate apocalypse.

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The New Yorker

What If We Stopped Pretending?

By Jonathan Franzen 09/08/19
The climate apocalypse is coming. To prepare for it, we need to admit that we can’t prevent it. The struggle to rein in global carbon emissions and keep the planet from melting down has the…
VOX

The controversy over Jonathan Franzen’s climate change opinions, explained

By Sigal Samuel 09/11/19
Scientists are pissed at the novelist — and at the New Yorker for publishing him. Jonathan Franzen writes about climate change. Twitter erupts in anger.…
INTELLIGENCER

The controversy over Jonathan Franzen’s climate change opinions, explained

By Eric Levitz 09/10/19
Nine months ago, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez told a crowd at the Riverside Church in Manhattan, “The world is going to end in 12 years if we…
GIZMODO

Ban Rich White Guys From Writing Their Thoughts About Climate Change

By Brian Kahn 09/09/19
Inexplicably, Jonathan Franzen and the New Yorker have come back for another round of being complete dumbasses about climate change.  
The Guardian

Jonathan Franzen’s made-up climate change model sparks online pile-on

By Alison Flood 09/09/19
‘As a non-scientist, I do my own kind of modelling,’ claimed the author in the New Yorker, sparking a flurry of mockery online
BUSINESS INSIDER INDIA

The controversy over Jonathan Franzen’s climate change opinions, explained

By Taylor Nicole Rogers 09/09/19
Scientists and climate experts are furious after a New Yorker opinion column declared the fight against climate change useless.
09/01/19

…Misinformation

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Twitter.com

Trump tweet

By Donald J. Trump 02/13/20
In addition to Florida - South Carolina, North Carolina, Georgia, and Alabama, will most likely be hit (much) harder than anticipated. Looking like one of the largest hurricanes ever. Already category 5. BE CAREFUL! GOD…
Twitter.com

National Weather Service tweet

By NWS 09/01/19
Alabama will NOT see any impacts from #Dorian. We repeat, no impacts from Hurricane #Dorian will be felt across Alabama. The system will remain too far east. #alwx
The Washington Post

Greenwashing 101: How to decipher corporate claims about climate

By Douglas MacMillan 04/21/22
Companies are eager to tout their environmental progress on Earth Day. Here are five tips for investigating whether their claims tell the full story.
PBS News

New details on big oil’s campaign to defeat climate action

By Jane McMullen and Patrice Taddonio 04/19/22
It was the 1990s, and scientific understanding of how burning fossil fuels would change the Earth’s climate was mounting. So, too, was a chorus of…
The Intercept

Documents show polluting industries mobilized to block climate action

By Amy Westervelt 04/12/22
Of the primary reports that the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change publishes every four to six years, the mitigation report, focused on what can be…
Triple Pundit

Pinterest takes a stand on climate misinformation

By Leon Kaye 04/07/22
Many of the social media platforms that surround us seem innocuous enough. They give us the options to share what we had for breakfast, the…
Tech Policy Press

Latest IPCC Reports Underscore Threat of Climate Disinformation

By Michael Khoo 04/04/22
The latest reports from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) confirm that “climate change is causing dangerous and widespread disruption in nature and affecting…
Unearthed

Inside Exxon’s playbook: How the oil giant works through front groups to head-off regulations on toxic chemicals and plastics

By Lawrence Carter 07/01/21
ExxonMobil ran a behind the scenes US lobbying campaign against legislative efforts to restrict the use of toxic PFAS “forever chemicals”, one of the oil…
Unearthed

Inside Exxon’s playbook: How America’s biggest oil company continues to oppose action on climate change

By Lawrence Carter 06/30/21
ExxonMobil continues to fight efforts to tackle climate change in the United States, despite publicly claiming to support the Paris climate agreement, an undercover investigation…
The New York Times

House Panel to Investigate Report That Cabinet Official Coerced NOAA Chief

By Lisa Friedman 09/11/19
A congressional committee opened an inquiry on Wednesday into a report that the secretary of commerce, Wilbur L. Ross Jr., coerced the head of a…
The New York Times

Commerce Chief Threatened Firings at NOAA After Trump’s Dorian Tweets, Sources Say

By Christopher Flavelle 09/10/19
Neil Jacobs, head of the federal scientific agency threatened with firings after one of its offiThe Secretary of Commerce threatened to fire top employees at…
The New York Times

NOAA Chief, Defending Trump on Dorian, Also Tries to Buoy Scientists

By Nicholas Bogel-Burroughs 09/10/19
Neil Jacobs, head of the federal scientific agency threatened with firings after one of its offices contradicted President Trump on Hurricane Dorian, defended the administration…
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