Covering Climate Now
Covering Climate Now is a project co-founded by Columbia Journalism Review and The Nation aimed at strengthening the media’s focus on the climate crisis. WBUR is one of more than 250 news organizations around the world that have committed to running a week’s worth of climate coverage in the lead-up to the United Nations Climate Action Summit in New York on Sept. 23, 2019.
Today Is Earth Day. This Is Your Reminder That After Coronavirus, Another Grave Threat Looms
As we recover from the pandemic while still confronting a climate emergency, writes Frederick Hewett, do we dare ponder what situation we'll find ourselves in 10 years from now?
Why Don’t We Treat The Climate Crisis With The Same Urgency As Coronavirus?
Urgent action to prevent a pandemic is, of course, necessary and pressing. But the climate crisis represents a far graver and deadlier existential threat, writes Owen Jones, and yet the...
On Climate Guilt, 2020, And Why Your Jeans Are Bad For The Environment: 5 Questions With Tatiana Schlossberg
The former New York Times science reporter (and Kennedy family scion) is out with a new book that illustrates how everything in our lives comes back to the climate --...
The Words Of One Young Climate Activist: 'We Cannot Consider Ourselves Separate From The Natural World'
In 12 years, I will be 27 years old, writes Izzy Goodrich. I will not yet have experienced three full decades on Earth before it begins its irreversible decline.
The Hundreds Of Ways Trump Has Trampled Science
It's time to hold our leaders accountable for suppressing, denying, censoring and otherwise sidelining science, write Rachel Licker and Andrew Rosenberg.
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The Injustice Of Climate Change
Boston is failing to implement the climate policies we know are right, to the detriment of some of the state's poorest and most vulnerable residents, write Roseann Bongiovanni and John...
The Moral Case For Fighting Climate Change
I’m willing to entertain wild possibilities, writes Frederick Hewett, as long as the youth of the world are willing to speak truth to power.
We Need More Than Campaign Slogans To Decarbonize The U.S.
It’s time to get serious about investing in the technologies that will move America from righteous rhetoric to a net-zero carbon future, writes Philip Warburg.