Varshini Prakash

Executive Director, Sunrise 

Climate change is a crisis and it's an urgent threat to American lives.

The Media Must Call Hurricanes, Wildfires and Flooding What They Are: Climate Disasters

Connor Theriot, 16, has an emotional moment while standing on the slab of foundation that once held his family's home after Hurricane Laura  landed along the Texas-Louisiana border in Cameron, Louisiana on August 30, 2020. (Callaghan OHare/Washington Post via Getty Images)

Hurricane Laura Damage Is Seen In Louisiana

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Covering Climate Now is a global journalism initiative committed to more and better coverage of the climate crisis. More than 400 news outlets -- including WBUR -- have committed to a week of coverage from Sept. 21-25, 2020, examining the intersection of climate change and politics. CCNow was co-founded in April 2019 by the Columbia Journalism Review, and The Nation, in association with The Guardian.