I’ve covered these COPs (to be more specific, Conferences of the Parties to the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change) across four decades; they are simultaneously the world’s stage for talking about the most serious crisis our species has ever … Read more
Disruptive and deadly weather extremes have been happening globally at an unprecedented pace, giving rise in recent months to the devastating fires on the Hawaiian island of Maui described as a “total inferno,” flash flooding in the … Read more
Tristan Ahtone, NF ’18, on harnessing the expertise of Indigenous journalists to report on the environment Think about this metaphor from Indigenous and disabled climate justice expert Kera Sherwood-O’Regan (Kāi Tahu): Climate change is like a tabletop, with each of … Read more
Daniel P. Schrag is the Sturgis Hooper Professor of Geology at Harvard University, professor of environmental science and engineering, and director of the Harvard University Center for the Environment. He studies climate and climate change over a broad range of … Read more
On the very first day of my “Reporting on Climate Change” class at the Harvard Extension School last August, a student asked if I had any strategies for responding to editors who say there’s not enough room for in-depth climate … Read more
From the senior editor Hello, I had a really hard time selecting a photo for Jill Hopke’s piece titled “Everyone is a Climate Reporter Now.” The problem was we had so many to choose from. There were images of the … Read more
After another year marked by weather extremes globally, from unprecedented heat waves in Europe that saw airport runways buckle to catastrophic flooding in Pakistan that left a third of the country underwater and nearly 1,500 dead, climate … Read more
National Public Radio, America’s hallmark public media organization, had a unique beginning. A people’s radio of sorts, NPR was made possible by a 1967 act of Congress in 1971, with the goal of providing educational radio to the country. Fifty … Read more
Way back in 2017, I saw Edward Maibach, the director of George Mason University’s Center for Climate Change Communication, give a presentation about the climate crisis and the public’s still-limited understanding of it. People really only need to know five … Read more
Elizabeth Kolbert has been a staff writer at The New Yorker since 1999 with a focus on environmental issues. Her 2015 Pulitzer Prize-winning book, “The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History,” posits that human activity has brought the … Read more
