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…

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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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…

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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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…

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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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…

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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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…

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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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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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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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 ...

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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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...

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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A Petrostate War — Covering Climate Now “Petrostate” is a term usually applied to countries like Saudi Arabia, Russia, or Nigeria, where the production and, crucially, the export of oil and gas are fundamental to the domestic economy and fo...

This week, the US attacked another petrostate, Venezuela, with the explicit aim of seizing the country’s oil infrastructure.

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Carbon Pricing’s Giant Leap Forward The International Maritime Organization has “essentially” committed to pricing carbon emissions — which The New York Times rightfully called “potentially world-changing.”

In March, the regulatory body governing international shipping “essentially committed” to setting a price on carbon emissions from that industry, which would effectively create the first-ever global price on carbon.

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