Covering Climate Now: COP26
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 from more than 50 countries that have committed to a week of heightened climate coverage in the lead-up to the COP26 climate summit in Glasgow
COP26 ends with some compromises but mostly disappointments
There were agreements on curbing emissions as well as a blanket call to draw down fossil fuel use.
'Our people are watching': Barbados PM's warning about climate change among memorable COP26 speeches
Activists and world leaders have taken the opportunity over the past two weeks to deliver powerful speeches about the future of the planet.
Flood control lessons from the Dutch as we enter a wetter future
Like many parts of the world, the Netherlands experienced heavy rainfall this year. But unlike its neighboring countries, it averted disastrous floods.
Bridging faith and science in the existential struggle against climate change
Katharine Hayhoe, chief scientist for the Nature Conservancy and a devout Christian, shares how she bridges the divide.
Frequency of wildfires in Alaska concerns scientists
There's evidence that the frequency and intensity of burning in that state have increased in recent decades.
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Forced relocation of Native Americans has made them more vulnerable to climate change, study finds
A study shows how forced relocation of Native Americans in the U.S. has moved them to lands more susceptible to climate change.
For one Pennsylvania farmer, cutting methane emissions helps business
Dairy farmer Brett Reinford first installed methane digesters on his family farm 13 years ago.
COP26 falls short of the aggressive action needed to halt climate disaster
Experts say nations will need to keep pushing for more aggressive, concrete plans soon.
Glaciers, disappearing at alarming rate, prove no match for global warming
Citizens from around the world have converged on COP26 to beg for leaders to save glaciers.
Phoenix — the hottest big city in the U.S. — hires first-ever heat mitigation officer
David Hondula will be charged with lowering urban temperatures to avoid heat-related deaths, which have soared to new records in recent years.
‘Climate denial’ to ‘climate delay’: Rupert Murdoch's News Corp pivots media narrative in Australia
The media tycoon seems to be rethinking his strategy on climate change.
Journalist Porter Fox goes to the coldest places on Earth to explore climate change
"The Last Winter" documents retreating snow and ice around the planet.
What's net-zero — and why do we have until 2050 to get there? Climate change questions, answered
As the international climate summit in Glasgow heads into its final week, speeches and headlines are full of buzzwords like net-zero and carbon budget.
How insurance is protecting a coral reef from climate impacts in Mexico
Climate change is forcing the insurance industry to adapt and come up with new products.
Novelists illustrate the climate futures that could await us
Authors Kim Stanley Robinson and Omar el-Akkad discuss the responsibility fiction writers have to address the climate crisis.
Miami Mayor Francis Suarez on what he hopes to see at COP26
Miami's mayor Francis Suarez is leading a delegation of U.S. mayors at the U.N. climate change conference.
Kenyan climate activist Elizabeth Wathuti joins youth voices at COP26
The 26-year-old climate activist from Kenya founded the Green Generation Initiative, a group that helps young people become environmentally conscious through growing trees.
Biden's success in cracking down on methane emissions will depend on new technology
Methane, a climate-warming gas, often escapes from wells and pipelines.
More than 40 countries agree to phase out coal. The U.S. isn't among them
More than 40 countries have signed on to a deal to phase out coal-fired power by 2050. Critics say the plan doesn't go far enough.
Chin up, climate crusaders. We're about to rebuild America
The U.S. is on the verge of making biggest the investment in tackling the climate crisis the world has ever seen, writes Margie Alt. We should be shouting that from...