Covering Climate Now

By Anya Zoledziowski A family fell on such hard times after a cyclone that when a man offered their daughter, 17, a job, they agreed. They later learned she was forced into the sex trade. In May 2020, when the catastrophic…
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By Francisca Rockey If you walk into your local library or bookshop and you’re looking for a book on nature or the climate crisis, you’re likely to find that most of the texts are written by white people; meaning most of our…
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By Tina Gerhardt The UN climate conference’s agreement acknowledges several key issues for the first time—but doesn’t do enough to address them. As COP26 drew to a close with the Glasgow Climate Pact, a 10-page document,…
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By Cara Korte World leaders will turn their focus to gender Tuesday at the U.N. global climate summit in Glasgow, Scotland. Globally, women are more vulnerable to the effects of climate change than men, as they make…
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By Mary Annaïse Heglar and Amy Westervelt In a rapidly heating world, we don’t have time for etiquette. “No matter what he says today,” climate activist Lauren MacDonald said through tears in her opening lines at…
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By Alex Robinson Millennials and Gen Zs are suing governments and pension funds over their failures to address the climate crisis. It all started with an email. Mark McVeigh was procrastinating one day, as university students do,…
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By Rachel Sarah “COP26 is looking like one of the most inequitable, White, and segregated COPs to ever occur,” says Ayisha Siddiqa, a climate activist who traveled from New York City to Glasgow for the long-awaited…
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By: Patrick Greenfield As world leaders prepare to commit to halting the destruction of forests, here’s everything you need to know about some of the planet’s most biodiverse places. Forests and nature are centre stage at Cop26. On…
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By Amy Westervelt More than 70 countries, including the United States, have promised to reduce methane emissions by 30 percent by 2030. Is it enough? This week at COP26, more than 70 countries, led by the European Union and the…
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By Mark Fischetti On October 31 world leaders will descend on Glasgow, Scotland, for the United Nations Climate Change Conference, or COP26, in a last-ditch effort to defuse the climate emergency by limiting global warming to…
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By: Damian Carrington and Guardian reporters The climate emergency is the biggest threat to civilisation we have ever faced. But there is good news: we already have every tool we need to beat it. The challenge is not identifying the…
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By Geoff Dembicki Oil executives delayed and deflected at a historic congressional hearing into climate denial Thursday. Experts say once people learn the truth it could be game over for Big Oil. Exxon had been dreading this day…
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The UK will have to open COP26 with a last-ditch bid to mobilize US$100 billion per year in climate finance from the world’s richest nations,
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BlackRock CEO Larry Fink says the next big tech investments will be climate-focused in green hydrogen, agriculture, steel and green cement.
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VICE News partnered with the Guardian and pollster YouGov to find out how people living in the US think and feel about climate change.
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During the UN General Assembly, a coalition of 7 countries launched a coal power initiative to keep global temperature rise to 1.5°C.
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Greta Thunberg says success at the upcoming COP26 depends on world leaders admitting that their action is not living up to their words.
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By James Gaines, Knowable Magazine Worry over the planet’s future is taking a toll on emotional well-being, researchers say. Here’s how to cope so we don’t lose hope for our planet and for ourselves. The Earth’s average global…
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What is COP26? It's not just another international summit. It’s a pivotal moment for climate change that could determine our future.
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A new marine ecology tool corrects the effect of fossil fuel emissions, helping scientists better understand ocean ecosystems.
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When climate coverage ignores the global South, it’s bad for everyone. By: Saleemul Huq and Mark Hertsgaard Climate change amounts to an undeclared, deeply unjust war against the global poor. Though they have emitted almost none of…
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