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STEAL THIS (CLIMATE) STORY

This column examines the climate emergency through the
lens of media coverage—what the press is doing well, where the gaps
are and ideas for timely stories on the
accelerating crisis.
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Give Climate Change the Name It Deserves: Fossil-Fueled Destruction

“Climate Crisis” only identifies the symptoms of oil and gas dependence. As time runs out, we need a term that focuses on what — and who — is to blame.

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Time to Kill Off ‘Net Zero’

Stop pretending planting trees can justify fossil fuels emissions.

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Climate Chaos Is Outpacing Science and Outrunning Journalism 

A new type of disaster reporting is needed to keep up.

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Bumps in the Air: What’s Climate Change Got to Do With It?

Add shaky planes, weather delays and cancellations to our new reality under unfriendly warming skies.

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When Insuring Crops Ensures Climate Mistakes

Crop insurance puts pistachios, cherries and other vulnerable crops on life-support as rising temperatures threaten California agriculture.

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Experts Agree: Climate Change Is a Weapon of Mass Destruction

As both the intelligence community and the insurance industry name global warming as a top threat, U.S. states give aid and comfort to the enemy.

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It’s Payback Time

New studies call for reparations from oil companies and governments responsible for climate change.

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The Climate Crisis Is a Health Crisis

How to follow the heat to the next disease; and how following the science got a researcher in trouble.

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Double Threat: The Greenhouse Gases That Are Also Poisoning You Now

Diesel exhaust and emissions from plastic production warm the planet over time, while immediately threatening those who inhale their toxic fumes.

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Teenagers Go to Court to Force Climate Action

Lawsuits in Montana and Hawaii shine light on how climate chaos threatens their adult lives.

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The World Will Miss the Climate Change Target. Time to Prepare.

United Nations panel shows climate change is outrunning emissions goals. Our only option is to adapt.

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California’s Drought Is Not Over

Following the power and the money for the stories deeper than atmospheric rivers.

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The Dishonest Accounting of Net-Zero Emissions

Companies pledge to cut emissions caused by their production, while opposing measures to reduce emissions from the use of their products.

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How Climate Change Threatens California Wine

Longstanding varieties like Cabernet Sauvignon just can’t take the heat.

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Aim for the Stomach

Why the threat to food supplies — and industrial agriculture’s role in global warming — is central to the discourse on climate change.

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Atmospheric Greenhouse Gases Do Not Discriminate, But People Do

What real estate, oil wells, racism and yogurt containers reveal about the disparate damages caused by fossil fuels.

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5 Climate Questions for 2023

Alleged criminal conspiracies, water wars, quake-safe energy and deforestation are among the topics for journalists to probe in the coming year.

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How Do My — and Your — Greenhouse Gas Emissions Threaten Biodiversity?

It is time for journalists to pay attention to the other climate crisis: species extinction.

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Climate Change is Driving Up Food Prices

Tip to journalists: COP27 and food price inflation are part of the same story.

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How Do You Cover a Present Nothing Like the Past?

Tips for covering the extremes driven by climate change, and the potential perils of biofuels.

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Playing Both Sides Now at Upcoming Global Climate Talks

The U.N. Climate Change Conference uses the same PR firm as oil companies under pressure to pay for global warming costs.

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Exposing the Financial Costs of Climate Change – and Denial of the Climate Crisis

As a warming planet brings economic tensions to a boil, following the money can reveal some critical stories.