Covering Climate Now 2021

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 400+ news organizations around the world that have committed to a week of heightened climate coverage in the lead-up to Earth Day 2021.

A crowd gathers near the summit of Cadillac Mountain in Acadia National Park. (Robert F. Bukaty/AP Photo)

What Climate Change Means For America's National Parks

Conserving America's most precious public lands. It's the founding duty of the National Park Service. But what does conservation mean with accelerating climate change?

47:26Jun 10, 2021

View of Exxon Mobil storage tanks of the petrochemical industry in the port of Rotterdam, Netherlands. (Peter Dejong/AP Photo)

Exxon And Activism: The Oil Industry Reckons With Climate Change

ExxonMobil shareholders have elected two board members backed by activist investors. We discuss the new chapter in the battle to make energy companies face the threat of climate change.

47:28Jun 2, 2021

Climate activists march in an attempt to occupy the Garzweiler open-cast coal mine and nearby gas infrastructure on a day of civil disobedience organized by the "Ende Gelaende" movement on September 26, 2020 near Grevenbroich, Germany. (Sascha Schuermann/Getty Images)

The Psychology Of Climate Change — And How To Engage With It

Climate change presents a grim future. We know what we’re up against, yet our impulse is to look away, to say we’ll worry about it later. We talk the psychology...

47:18Apr 22, 2021

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The Psychology Of Climate Change — And How To Engage With It

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Covering Climate Now 2021

What Climate Change Means For America's National Parks

Exxon And Activism: The Oil Industry Reckons With Climate Change

The Psychology Of Climate Change — And How To Engage With It