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How China, not the U.S., became the main climate solution story in 2025
The U.S. has become a "side character" in the global story of renewable energy, experts say. China dominates the sector, with positive implications for the climate and their economy.
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Scientists uncover a volcanic trigger behind the Black Death
A newly analyzed set of climate data points to a major volcanic eruption that may have played a key role in the Black Death’s arrival. Cooling and crop failures across Europe pushed Italian states to bring in grain from the Black Sea. Those shipments may have carried plague-infected fleas. The study ties together tree rings, ice cores, and historical writings to reframe how the pandemic began.
How to Civilize Digital Life
The Right to Privacy is a brief written by Louis Brandeis and Samuel Warren and published in the Harvard Law Review in 1890. It has not been improved upon since, because what it says is so damn obvious and simple: that the right to privacy is “the right to be let alone.”
Those six words are well understood by everyone in the natural world, and have been for the history of civilized life. Hell, probably before that as well. But they are alien in the digital world.
Here’s why: Our knowledge of privacy in the natural world is tacit, meaning we know what it is but can’t easily explain it. Meanwhile, the digital world is entirely explicit. It is made of bits and code.
We don’t yet have a way to make explicit our wish to be let alone in the digital world. Or how we might not, and for what purposes.
“Consents” such as those provided by cookie notices can’t do it, because all the agency you have is what they provide, and they have little or no interest in obeying whatever “choices” you’ve made about being tracked. They might not even be able to do more than put up one of those notices. To see how total the suckage is, read this, this, this, this, or this. It’s a fecosystem, folks. 100-proof bullshit.
For real privacy, we need to make our requirements explicit, and enforceable. That’s why we now have IEEE 7012-2025 Approved Draft Standard for Machine Readable Personal Privacy Terms. Its nickname is MyTerms, much as IEEE 802.11 is nicknamed Wi-Fi. After years in the works, MyTerms will be published on 22 January of next year, a little over a month from now.
MyTerms is for privacy what TCP/IP is for the Internet and HTTP/HTTPS is for the Web: a foundation atop which an infinitude of products and services can be built—ones that can’t be built so long as privacy is a corporate grace and not a personal right, and all customer-company relationships are exclusively under company control. Simply put, if your privacy is in the hands of others alone, you don’t have any.
The way MyTerms works could hardly be more simple. (That’s one reason developing the standard took so damn long.)
- You (the person), acting as the first party, proffer a personal privacy agreement to every site or service you meet, or know.
- If they, as the second parties, agree, you both keep identical records of the agreement, so compliance can be audited or disputed (if need be) in the future. Since MyTerms are contracts, enforcement follows contract law.
- You will choose the agreement from a short list posted on the Web by a disinterested nonprofit such as Customer Commons, which was created for that purpose. (The model for this is Creative Commons. MyTerms will be for personal privacy what Creative Commons is for personal copyright. We thank them for tilling that field for us.)
- Both parties use agents. These can be as simple as a browser and Web server (e.g. WordPress or Drupal) plug-ins, or as fancy as AI agents on both sides (such as many companies use to work out B2B agreements).
- The flow looks like this:
In the sense that these are manners, this is a protocol. But it’s not a technical one. All the tech is up to developers.
To help imagine out how this goes, here is one way MyTerms might look in a browser with a MyTerms plugin that manifests a couple of buttons in the browser header (DuckDuckGo‘s in this case):
The left ⊂ is your side of a potential or actual agreement, and the right ⊃ is the website’s side. With colors, additional symbols (for example within the ⊂ and ⊃, or other UI hacks, these might show states —
- Willingness to engage by either side
- State of engagement
- Additional information (including agreements built on top of the original MyTerms one), such as VRM + CRM relationships
- Records of what’s happening within those relationships, for example market intelligence that flows both ways
The symbols might have pop-down menus with choices and links that go elsewhere. The possibilities are wide open.
I choose ProjectVRM for an example, because it’s ready to agree to a visitor’s proffered MyTerm, and a bunch of us did a lot of thinking and working on this problem (and opportunity) back in the ’00s and early ’10s. For one example, look here.
We started ProjectVRM, created Customer Commons, and developed MyTerms, all to open markets to far horizons that cannot be imagined, much less seen, from inside silos and walled gardens built to keep people captive while harvesting vast amounts of personal data just so people can be guessed at by parasites (such as what most advertisers have now become).
By starting with privacy—real privacy—we can finally civilize the digital world. We can also set countless new tables in the marketplace. These are tables across which demand and supply can converse, relate, and transact in countless ways that are simply impossible in the consent-to-surveillance fecosystem.
We can finally fulfill the prophesies I made in The Intention Economy: When Customers Take Charge (Harvard Business Review Press, 2012), and Sir Tim Berners-Lee calls for in his new book This is for Everyone: The Unfinished Story of the World Wide Web (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2025), specifically in Chapter 17, “Attention vs. Intention.”
Let’s finish Tim’s story.
If you want to help with that, contact the MyTerms team through the form at the bottom of every page at MyTerms.info. Thanks!
Researchers solve a century-old North Atlantic cold spot mystery
A century-old North Atlantic cold patch is now linked to a long-term slowdown in the AMOC, the climate-regulating conveyor belt of ocean water. Only weakened-AMOC models match observed temperature and salinity patterns, overturning recent model trends. This slowdown affects weather systems, jet streams, and marine life throughout the Northern Hemisphere. The discovery sharpens climate forecasts and highlights a major shift already underway.
PRX and AudioUK Announce 2026 Podcast Creator Summit in London
The all-day event on February 6 will take place in Apple’s London offices at Battersea Power Station, featuring free workshops and learning sessions for podcasters
Public media organization PRX — bringing acclaimed podcasts and radio to millions — and AudioUK — the industry body dedicated to advancing podcasting and audio — today announced a 2026 Podcast Creator Summit in London, UK, inviting podcasters of all experience levels to share and gain insights spanning the art and business of making podcasts and audio.
The free summit is organized in partnership with Apple Podcasts, and will take place on Friday, February 6 at Battersea Power Station in London. Sessions will include in-person seminars, talks, and workshops led by acclaimed creators and industry experts.
Sign up here to receive updates and instructions, for a chance to attend the summit in London. The speaking lineup will be announced in January.
“After two successful years in the US, meeting independent creators and supporting local podcast and audio communities, we are thrilled at the opportunity to expand overseas to a podcast market as significant as the UK,” said Stephanie Kuo, VP of Content at PRX. “We hope podcasters of all backgrounds and experience levels will join us, especially producers and independent creators early in their journeys.”
“We’re excited to build on our track record of providing standout development and event experiences by partnering with two global leaders in podcasting and audio, Apple and PRX, to bring to life an inspiring new event for UK creators,” said Chloe Straw, CEO of AudioUK. “The Podcast Creator Summit offers a unique opportunity for creators to come together for community building and creative mastery at Apple’s iconic Battersea Power Station. Attendees will benefit from expert-led sessions featuring insights from right across the industry.”
AudioUK has a strong track record in delivering high-impact training and industry events. In 2025 alone, the organization relaunched its Audiotrain program as an always-on video learning platform; hosted Podcast x TV networking events in London and Manchester; delivered the first Power of Podcasting Ads showcase in London; hosted the independent business stage at The Podcast Show; and has run its annual awards, the APAs, celebrating excellence across the industry.
PRX convened several Podcast Creator Summits in 2025 in the United States, including in Austin, Texas and Atlanta, Georgia in partnership with local public media stations KUT and WABE. Presenters included creative leaders from iHeartPodcasts, Tenderfoot TV, Audacy, The Roost, City Cast, Exactly Right Media, and more.
About PRX
Celebrating more than 20 years as a nonprofit public media company, PRX works in partnership with leading independent creators, organizations, and stations to bring meaningful audio storytelling into millions of listeners’ lives. PRX is one of the world’s top podcast publishers, public radio distributors, and audio producers, serving as an engine of innovation for public media and podcasting to help shape a vibrant future for creative and journalistic audio. Shows across PRX’s portfolio of broadcast productions, podcast partners, and its Radiotopia podcast network have received recognition from the Peabody Awards, the Tribeca Festival, the International Documentary Association, the National Magazine Awards, and the Pulitzer Prizes. Visit prx.org for more.
About Audio UK
AudioUK is the industry body dedicated to advancing podcasting and audio, by fostering innovation, supporting creators and businesses, and driving commercial and creative growth. Through advocacy, training programs, networking opportunities, and industry events, AudioUK helps shape the future of podcasting and audio in the UK and beyond. By connecting creators, producers, and businesses, AudioUK ensures that talent thrives, ideas flourish, and the industry continues to expand both creatively and commercially. For more information, resources, and to find out how to join, visit audiouk.org.uk.
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What I saw reporting on the American lives cut short by killer heat
In this week’s newsletter: Coroners can’t agree on how to count heat fatalities – and the dismantling of climate investments is leaving fragile communities exposed
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Donald Trump’s decision to boycott Cop30, withdraw the US from the Paris agreement and illegally terminate a slew of investments in renewable energy will not change the reality of climate breakdown for Americans.
In what has become an annual reporting tradition, I found myself in Arizona reporting on heat-related deaths during yet another gruelling heatwave, when temperatures topped 43C (110F) on 13 out of 14 straight days in Phoenix. Before embarking on this trip, I spent weeks combing through hundreds of autopsy reports, which I obtained from two county medical examiners using the Freedom of Information Act. Each death report gave me a glimpse into the person’s life, and I used clues from the case notes to track down friends and loved ones in the hopes of better understanding why heat is killing people in the richest country in the world.
How cyclones and monsoon rains converged to devastate parts of Asia – visual guide
The environmental costs of corn: should the US change how it grows its dominant crop?
‘Those who eat Chilean salmon cannot imagine how much human blood it carries with it’
Americans are dying from extreme heat. Autopsy reports don’t show the full story
‘Deeply demoralizing’: how Trump derailed coal country’s clean-energy revival
‘It happened so fast’: the shocking reality of indoor heat deaths in Arizona
Continue reading...A volcanic eruption might have helped bring the Black Plague to Europe
A volcanic eruption may have triggered a deadly chain of events that brought the Black Plague to Europe in the 14th century.
3.3 billion-year-old crystals reveal a shockingly active early Earth
Fresh evidence suggests early Earth wasn’t locked under a rigid stagnant lid but was already experiencing intense subduction. Ancient melt inclusions and advanced simulations point to continents forming far earlier than expected. The findings overturn long-held assumptions about the planet’s infancy and reveal a surprisingly active Hadean world.
New data reveals one of the smallest ozone holes in decades
This year’s ozone hole over Antarctica ranked among the smallest since the early 1990s, reflecting steady progress from decades of global action under the Montreal Protocol. Declining chlorine levels and warmer stratospheric temperatures helped limit ozone destruction. Scientists say the layer remains on track to recover later this century.
Leading by Example at France Télévisions
In the wake of a disappointing COP30 in Brazil and fears that pro-climate forces are losing the information war, France Télévisions is moving in the other direction.
The national public broadcaster in France, among the most-watched French-language media companies in the world, announced that it is joining Covering Climate Now, our global collaboration of more than 500 newsrooms committed to publishing more and better climate coverage.
France Télévisions brings more than heft to the consortium, though it certainly has that: The group’s holdings include four national television channels, 24 regional channels, nine overseas channels and radio stations, and an array of digital services.
But perhaps more importantly, the broadcaster has shown a long commitment to covering the climate story — and its approach can offer inspiration to other newsrooms feeling pressure to back off of climate coverage at exactly the wrong time.
In 2024, the outlet’s climate editor, Audrey Cerdan, was honored in the Covering Climate Now Journalism Awards for her work integrating climate change into the reporting across the network. France Télévisions has replaced its traditional evening weathercast with Journal Météo Climat, or “weather-climate report.” In the segment, reporters still tell viewers how hot or cold, rainy, or sunny it will be, but this information is provided in the context of climate change; for example, a display graphic might show how much hotter temperatures are compared to pre-Industrial levels.
“France Télévisions has long been a leader in showing how to produce climate coverage with impact across a newsroom,” said Mark Hertsgaard, CCNow co-founder and executive director. “We’re thrilled that they will now continue that industry-leading work as a partner at Covering Climate Now.”
“France Télévisions has long been committed to offering climate coverage that is close to the daily and local questions of our audiences, all the while explaining the global stakes and complexities of this major crisis,” said Virginie Fichet, deputy director of France Télévisions’ newsroom, in charge of climate. “We are pleased to join CCNow, an international network of hundreds of newsrooms, with whom we look forward to collaborating in the future.”
In recent months, CCNow partners around the world have joined forces in The 89 Percent Project, a surge in coverage aimed at highlighting the fact that an overwhelming majority of people in the world — between 80 and 89% — are concerned about the climate crisis and want their governments to do something about it. Last month, ProPublica, the investigative newsroom and winner of eight Pulitzer Prizes, signed on as a CCNow partner.
Amid a fog of disinformation around climate and a political backlash in some parts of the world, never has there been a more important time for newsrooms to recommit to covering the most important story of our time. France Télévisions provides a roadmap for how to do it.
From Us
Prep your winter coverage webinar. Forget summer heat; winter is warming faster than any other season across most of the US with climate change making cold snaps less frequent and less frigid. Join CCNow and Climate Central on Tuesday, December 9, at 12pm ET, for the latest in our Prep Your Climate Coverage series for this one-hour briefing on how climate change is impacting winter in the US. RSVP.
Noteworthy Stories
Extreme weather. Two tropical cyclones and a typhoon caused heavy rainfall and widespread flooding and landslides in South and Southeast Asia last week, resulting in the deaths of more than 1,250 people in Indonesia, Sri Lanka, and Thailand alone, with many still missing. By Lyndal Rowlands for Al Jazeera…
Alarming shift. Africa’s rainforests are now emitting carbon instead of storing it, contributing to climate change instead of preventing it. Since 2010, the three largest rainforest regions in the world — the South American Amazon, Southeast Asia, and Africa — have all shifted, “[underscoring] the need for urgent action to save the world’s great natural climate stabilisers.” By Jonathan Watts for The Guardian…
Belt and Road Initiative. A massive, ultra-modern new port in Peru is the first South American project completed as part of China’s $1.3 billion Belt and Road Initiative, but environmental and forest scientists worry that new trade routes to it will harm the Amazon. This story is part of “Planet China,” a series that explores how “Beijing’s trillion-dollar development plan is reshaping the globe — and the natural world.” By Georgina Gustin for Inside Climate News…
Climate denial. After the Paris Agreement was signed in 2015, the world celebrated a shared commitment to address climate change, but 10 years later, climate mis- and disinformation are rampant, and proving an obstacle to action. By Lisa Friedman and Steven Lee Myers for The New York Times…
Long read. The New Republic’s Kate Aronoff spent months compiling this comprehensive report that details how the Trump administration decimated Biden’s landmark Inflation Reduction Act so quickly and completely. “Where did those who crafted it go wrong?”
Quote of the Week
“The dinosaurs didn’t know what was coming, but we do.”
— Brazil’s environment minister Marina Silva on what needs to follow COP30 in an interview with The Guardian
Resources & Events
Attribution science. Climate Central is out with a new guide that explains how meteorologists are able to quantify the role of climate change in extreme weather events and wildfires. The resource includes “a new table of ready-to-use messages about multiple types of extreme weather” that journalists can use with confidence. Read more.
Webinar for climate journalists and communicators. Join the Yale Program on Climate Change Communication for ”Creators and Climate Campaigns: How to Partner with Trusted Messengers to Build Effective Climate Communication Strategies,” on Wednesday, December 10, at 12pm ET. Learn more.
Jobs, Etc.
Mongabay is looking for an English-language associate fellowship editor and Portuguese-language fellowship editor (remote). The Los Angeles Times is seeking an energy and climate reporter (El Segundo, Calif.). McClatchy Media is looking for a coastal climate reporter (Columbia, S.C.). Illinois Public Media is accepting applications for an agriculture/environmental reporter (Urbana, Ill.).
Paid internships. The University of Miami’s Campus Climate Network (CCN) and the Climate Accountability Lab (CAL) are hiring college students to conduct research on their universities’ ties to the fossil fuel industry in spring 2026. Learn more + apply.
JAWS 2026 Health Reporting Fellowship offers mentoring, training, and a stipend to early career journalists or journalists new to the health beat. Apply by December 5.
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France Télévisions Joins Covering Climate Now
For release: December 3, 2025
Press contact: editors@coveringclimatenow.org
France Télévisions contact: Claire Deshoux / claire.deshoux@francetv.fr
Covering Climate Now is thrilled to announce that France Télévisions, the national public broadcaster in France, is joining our global journalistic collaboration of newsrooms from around the world.
With four national television channels, 24 regional channels, nine overseas channels and radio stations, and a complete range of digital services with a streaming platform and news websites, France Télévisions is the most-watched French media company in the world.
It also has been a leader in climate reporting. In 2024, the company’s climate editor, Audrey Cerdan, was honored in the Covering Climate Now Journalism Awards for her work integrating climate change into the reporting across the network. France Télévisions has replaced its traditional evening weathercast with a new segment, Journal Météo Climat, or “weather-climate report.” In the segment, reporters still tell viewers how hot or cold, rainy, or sunny it will be, but this information is provided in the context of climate change; for example, a display graphic might show how much hotter temperatures are compared to pre-Industrial levels.
“France Télévisions has long been a leader in showing how to produce climate coverage with impact across a newsroom,” said Mark Hertsgaard, CCNow co-founder and executive director. “We’re thrilled that they will now continue that industry-leading work as a partner at Covering Climate Now.”
At CCNow, France Télévisions will be joining more than 500 newsrooms from around the world, all committed to more and better climate coverage. In October, ProPublica, the investigative newsroom and winner of eight Pulitzer Prizes, signed on as a CCNow partner.
“France Télévisions is committed to offering climate coverage that is close to the daily and local questions of our audiences, all the while explaining the global stakes and complexities of this major crisis,” said Virginie Fichet, deputy director of France Télévisions’ newsroom, in charge of climate. “We are pleased to join CCNow, an international network of hundreds of newsrooms, with whom we look forward to collaborating in the future.”
In recent months, CCNow partners around the world have joined forces in The 89 Percent Project, a surge in coverage aimed at highlighting the fact that an overwhelming majority of people in the world — between 80 and 89% — are concerned about the climate crisis and want their governments to do something about it.
News organizations everywhere are invited to join CCNow and to participate in The 89 Percent Project, which runs through the spring of 2026. There is no financial cost and no editorial line to follow, except respect for climate science. Inquiries should be sent to editors@coveringclimatenow.org.
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‘There’s no 911 for us’: Inside America’s elite urban search and rescue teams
America's urban search and rescue teams are facing financial and political pressure. However, their work has never been more in demand, as weather disasters become increasingly common.
(Image credit: Ryan Kellman)
President Trump announces plan to roll back fuel economy standards
The Trump administration continues to pivot away from electric vehicles and cleaner gas cars., with President Trump announcing Wednesday a plan to roll back the clock on fuel economy standards.
Trump administration rolls back fuel economy standards
At the White House this afternoon, President Trump said he was terminating "ridiculously burdensome" fuel economy rules. It's part of a series of changes relaxing or eliminating rules promoting cleaner cars.
(Image credit: Mario Tama)
Cómo cubrir los resultados de la COP30
Radar Clima es el boletín en español de Covering Climate Now. Cada dos semanas repasamos un tema clave para periodistas -especialistas o generalistas- desde la conexión climática y la lente de los tres pilares del periodismo climático: Humanizar, Localizar y Solucionar.
No olvides hacer la conexión climática en tus historias y basarla en la ciencia. Conectar los hechos con el cambio climático permite explicar las causas, responsabilidades y soluciones, y ayuda a tu audiencia a entender por qué es importante.
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LO QUE TIENES QUE SABER
La COP30 ha sobrevivido, pero no ha brillado. Tras dos semanas intensas y una buena dosis de caos (inundaciones, un incendio, protestas y bloqueos), la cumbre de la Amazonía concluyó el 22 de noviembre con el acuerdo “Mutirão global” (un término de origen tupí-guaraní que significa “esfuerzo colectivo”) que mantiene vivas las negociaciones pero pospone decisiones clave. Brasil logró evitar el colapso en un contexto muy difícil, pero no pudo cumplir las ambiciones del presidente brasileño, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.
Combustibles fósiles y deforestación en el debate (pero fuera del texto)
En un año en el que la presión de la industria y el regreso de Trump amenazaban con enterrar cualquier discusión sobre petróleo, gas y carbón, la transición fósil estuvo sobre la mesa. El presidente Lula pidió explícitamente una hoja de ruta en su discurso inaugural, y al menos 85 países la respaldaron públicamente. Ante la oposición de algunos actores clave como China, India o Arabia Saudí, la referencia desapareció del texto. Como contrapartida, Brasil desarrollará dos hojas de ruta (sobre combustibles fósiles y deforestación) fuera del proceso formal de la ONU para presentarlas en la COP 31. Colombia y Países Bajos organizarán una conferencia sobre transición fósil en abril de 2026.
Adaptación: un compromiso ambiguo
El texto “llama a esfuerzos”, en un lenguaje que no establece compromisos concretos, que tripliquen el financiamiento dedicado a adaptación climática para 2035, cinco años más tarde que lo que algunos países habían pedido. Además del retraso, el acuerdo no especifica un año de referencia para calcular ese triple, lo que lleva a incertidumbre, que a su vez dificultará la inversión.
El comercio irrumpe en la COP
Por primera vez en una COP, el comercio internacional entró formalmente en las discusiones. El acuerdo establece tres diálogos entre 2026 y 2028 sobre medidas relacionadas con el clima. Algunos ven esto como un ejemplo positivo acerca de cómo las COPs pueden lidiar con temas del mundo real; otros temen que se convierta en un campo de batalla entre el Norte y el Sur Global.
La sociedad civil exige un lugar en la mesa.
Tras tres años de COPs en países con regímenes autoritarios (Egipto, Emiratos Árabes Unidos y Azerbaiyán), la sociedad civil recuperó su voz en Belém. Más de 400 líderes indígenas acudieron a la sede, el mayor número en la historia de estas cumbres. Decenas de manifestantes del pueblo Munduruku asaltaron y posteriormente bloquearon la entrada al recinto de negociaciones exigiendo protección territorial y un lugar en la mesa de negociaciones: de 2.500 representantes indígenas en Belém, tan solo el 14% (360) obtuvo acceso a la zona restringida de negociaciones, conocida como la Zona Azul. Brasil reaccionó de inmediato: anunció demarcaciones territoriales y 1.800 millones de dólares para financiar reclamaciones de tierras indígenas.
Lo que NO ocurrió
No hubo proceso para revisar planes climáticos (NDC, por sus siglas en inglés). No se acordó un mecanismo claro para cerrar la brecha hacia 1,5 °C. No hubo nuevos compromisos significativos de financiamiento climático por parte de países desarrollados. Estados Unidos estuvo ausente. Y, por primera vez en un texto de COP, se reconoce explícitamente que el mundo probablemente sobrepasará el límite de 1,5ºC.
Fuera de las negociaciones: algunos avances
Se comprometieron 9.500 millones de dólares, la mayor cantidad alcanzada en una COP, para la protección de bosques tropicales, incluyendo recursos para el nuevo Fondo Bosques Tropicales para Siempre (TFFF, en inglés). También se comprometieron 82.000 millones de dólares anuales para redes eléctricas y almacenamiento de energía, 300 millones para sistemas de salud resilientes al clima y 590 millones para reducción de metanol. Son compromisos que ahora habrá que vigilar para ver si realmente se cumplen.
HUMANIZAR
La COP30 dejó tensiones sin resolver que afectarán a personas reales durante 2026. Más allá de la diplomacia, hay comunidades que pagan el precio de cada palabra que desaparece de un texto, y otras que celebran victorias arrancadas con protestas.
Ángulos clave
- ¿Qué significa para las comunidades en zonas vulnerables el reconocimiento oficial de que probablemente se sobrepasará el límite de 1,5 °C? ¿Conocen las personas que viven en estas zonas los impactos que este hecho supone? ¿Cómo cambia la relación con el futuro saber que tu tierra tiene fecha de caducidad?
- ¿Cómo cambia, en la práctica, el día a día para una comunidad indígena el haber conseguido una demarcación territorial? ¿Qué se siente al tener seguridad legal sobre sus tierras ancestrales? ¿Qué miedos persisten?
- ¿Qué significa, para la gente común en zonas vulnerables, el retraso en la financiación para adaptación climática? ¿Qué supone para una enfermera, un alcalde o una familia campesina esperar cinco años más? ¿Qué historias hay en hospitales o escuelas?
Historias para inspirarte
- Mujeres lideran la adaptación climática de sus comunidades en el occidente de Guatemala, por Lucy Calderón Pineda y Hassel Fallas (La Data Cuenta)
- ‘Los gobiernos se ahogan en burocracia mientras las comunidades se ahogan en el mar’, por Fermín Koop (Dialogue Earth)
LOCALIZAR
Los acuerdos y los desacuerdos de la COP 30 tendrán consecuencias reales en territorios específicos. Conectar las negociaciones globales con lugares concretos es clave para que tu audiencia entienda qué está en juego.
Ángulos clave
- ¿Qué barrios inundables, municipios vulnerables o comunidades costeras de tu ciudad o región podrían recibir, o necesitan los fondos de adaptación prometidos en Belém? ¿Quién decide qué zonas se protegen primero? ¿Cuáles se están quedando fuera, y por qué?
- ¿Qué selvas, ríos o humedales de tu región podrían beneficiarse de los 9.500 millones de dólares comprometidos para la protección de bosques tropicales? ¿Qué instituciones gestionarán esos fondos y cómo se garantizará su aplicación transparente y justa?
- ¿Qué zonas agrícolas o industriales en tu país se enfrentarán a nuevos costos o requisitos por las medidas comerciales climáticas que se discutieron en Belém? ¿Qué pueblos o comarcas tendrán que adaptarse?
Historias para inspirarte
- Experiencias locales de adaptación al cambio climático: “Necesitamos más charlas sobre acciones”, por Andrés Actis (Climática)
- Guardianes de la naturaleza: tres historias de éxito en la conservación de bosques en América Latina, por Yvette Sierra Praeli (Mongabay Latam)
SOLUCIONAR
La COP no deja de ser una enorme reunión sobre soluciones climáticas. Todo lo que pasa allí acaba afectando, para bien o para mal, a las soluciones que países, ciudades y comunidades tratan de aplicar, tanto en materia de mitigación como en adaptación.
Ángulos clave
- ¿Cómo respaldan algunos de los principales países productores de combustibles fósiles de América Latina, como Colombia o México, su adhesión a las iniciativas voluntarias de transición fósil acordadas en la COP 30? ¿Qué planes para la reconversión económica y laboral se plantean?
- ¿Qué papel están desempeñando las mujeres en el diseño e implementación de proyectos de adaptación climática en sus comunidades? ¿Qué proyectos liderados por mujeres están funcionando? ¿Qué barreras se encuentran para desarrollar soluciones a todos los niveles?
- ¿Cómo afectan los resultados de las COP30 a los planes climáticos que tu país desarrolló en su NDC? ¿Qué tiene que cumplirse para que esos planes realmente se implementen y no queden en papel mojado? ¿Cómo puede involucrarse la sociedad civil en su implementación y la vigilancia de la misma?
Historias para inspirarte
- Las mujeres mojaneras, lideresas en la adaptación al cambio climático, por Paula Andrea Casas (El Espectador)
- Los sindicatos de petróleo, gas y carbón que empujan una transición justa en Colombia, por María Mónica Monsalve (El País)
EXPERTOS
- Carlos Nobre (Instituto de Estudios Avanzados, Universidad de São Paulo): El doctor Carlos Nobre es uno de los más reconocidos expertos en el estudio de los impactos climáticos en la Amazonía.
- Toya Manchineri (Coordinadora de Organizaciones Indígenas de la Amazonía Brasileña, COIAB): Toya Manchineri es, además de Coordinador General de la COIAB, miembro del Comité Indígena del Cambio Climático (CIMC). Contactar a través del área de comunicación de COIAB (comunicacao@coiab.org.br)
- Iliana Monterroso (Centro para la Investigación Forestal Internacional, CIFOR): La doctora Iliana Monterroso es bióloga y científica ambiental. Sus áreas de investigación son el género, la propiedad de la tierra, los derechos colectivos, la gobernanza medioambiental y los conflictos socio-ambientales en América Latina.
RECURSOS
- Base de datos de expertos del Sur Global: Curada por Carbon Brief y la Red de Periodismo Climático de Oxford (OCJN), esta base de datos contiene más de 1000 contactos de personas expertas de África, Asia y Latinoamérica disponibles para consulta. Es un recurso imprescindible a la hora de cubrir una COP o sus resultados.
- Para quienes quieran ampliar conocimientos, Carbon Brief ofrece un artículo extremadamente detallado con todos los resultados de la COP 30, así como cientos de enlaces y fuentes (en inglés).
- El Instituto Talanoa publica esta guía para periodistas sobre Adaptación Climática. Disponible en español, portugués e inglés.
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Researchers recreated conditions from billions of years ago and found that Earth’s young atmosphere could make key molecules linked to life. These sulfur-rich compounds, including certain amino acids, may have formed naturally in the sky. The results suggest early Earth wasn’t starting from zero but may have already been stocked with essential ingredients.
Global EV Sales Report — Tiny Wuling Mini Beats Tesla Model Y!!!
There were over 1.9 million plugin vehicles registered in October, with BEVs (+19% YoY) rising and PHEVs (-5% YoY) falling. Despite the expected hangover in the US market, down almost 50% YoY in October, global plugin vehicle registrations were up 10% compared to October 2024. With the USA market in ... [continued]
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As Countries Take Steps to Protect Wildlife in Legal Trade, Animal and Plant Trafficking Rages On
Countries are meeting in Uzbekistan to negotiate trade protections for threatened plants and animals.
Whether people realize it or not, traces of the global wildlife trade are ubiquitous, from expensive reptile-skin boots in department stores to the colorful fish swimming around a tank in your dentist’s office.
Reckoning With a New Era of Deadly Floods
The floods and landslides that have killed more than 1,350 people in recent weeks are a grim reminder of the risks of a warming planet.
New Analysis Provides More Evidence That Heat Standards Save Lives
As the Trump administration is expected to finalize a standard to prevent heat-related injury and illness for workers by early next year, a new study shows that clear, comprehensive rules save lives.
Last year was the hottest on record, but global warming isn’t just overheating the planet. It’s killing workers.
Virtual Power Plants Thwart Plot Against Renewable Energy
Regardless of this year’s sharp turn against wind and solar power by the White House, the US renewable energy transition is unstoppable. The killer combo of solar plus storage has been outpacing all other utility-scale forms of domestic energy production in terms of adding new capacity to the grid. Wind ... [continued]
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News media is “becoming part of AI systems”: Notes from the JournalismAI Festival 2025
London — Last month, fact checkers, newsroom leaders, product managers, and AI strategists gathered in the Southwark neighborhood of South London for the JournalismAI Festival 2025. The event brought out journalists from several continents to share their most innovative AI use cases, as well as deeper insights into how these technologies are impacting newsrooms globally.
The two-day conference was hosted by Google News Initiative and the eponymous JournalismAI, a project of Polis, the journalism think tank at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). Launched in 2019, JournalismAI was untangling knotty questions about the usefulness and ethics of AI adoption in journalism long before the launch of ChatGPT. After years as an online festival, this year marked JournalismAI’s first in-person conference.
Since some of the initial sheen of generative AI technologies has rubbed off, newsrooms in attendance appeared to have a thorough grasp on the specific promises and limitations of these technologies in their editorial work. More uncertain was generative AI’s impact on news audiences, as concerns and anxieties about its downstream effects surfaced on stage.
“Referrals are down in many of the markets that we are working in Brazil, in South Africa, in Indonesia. We are hearing from publishers — large publishers — that their traffic is down 50 to 60% in the past year,” said Irene Jay Liu, the director of AI, emerging tech, and regulation at the International Fund for Public Media (IFPM), which provides grants to news organizations serving the Global Majority.
Liu, who for years led Google’s News Lab across the Asia-Pacific region, pointed to search engines that are “taking journalistic content and summarizing it” as one of the main contributors to the traffic drop. “This is critical, because [the news] business model was already teetering,” she said in a conference wrap-up panel.
In the same panel, Ezra Eeman, the strategy and innovation director at Dutch public broadcaster NPO, questioned if newsroom adoption was the most pressing framework for conversations about journalism and AI. “We’re looking at how we add AI to our existing organizations, to optimize our existing flows, to add intelligence to it,” said Eeman. “The bigger play that’s happening, of course, is that media is being added to AI — becoming part of AI systems.”
The bulk of this year’s JournalismAI Festival offered lessons and learnings on the former topic, like reporting and editing use cases, AI-assisted article production and distribution, and ways to steer organizational adoption and change. The 35 newsroom grantees from JournalismAI’s 2024 Innovation Challenge participated in these conversations. The program, funded by Google News Initiative, distributes grants to news organizations in order to support AI adoption and experimentation, and representatives from these organizations were woven throughout this year’s program.
As the conference kicked off, JournalismAI announced the next edition of its Innovation Challenge. The call for proposals takes on these looming questions about AI’s impact on news audiences. Unlike the cohort from the inaugural challenge, these new grants will be awarded to projects focused on “audience intelligence and revenue growth.” In other words, questions of sustainability will drive this next grant cycle.
The new challenge seems to implore newsrooms to ask how AI technologies can not only be used to build better or faster newsrooms, but also stronger businesses.
No more Western media navel gazing
One of the strengths of this year’s JournalismAI Festival was its internationalism. Many grantees, including newsrooms across Latin America, Africa, and Asia, flew to London for the conference and presented on most cutting-edge AI use cases in their respective newsrooms.
“There’s a lot of innovation that’s happening, there’s a lot of hustling. A lot of the cool things that are being done — whether due to language, distance, air flight costs — we’re not seeing them in the global conversation,” said Liu, the AI director at IFPM. She encouraged North American and European newsrooms to look outside their own professional bubbles for the most innovative experiments in AI and journalism.
At the Indian digital news site Scroll, Sannuta Raghu has been leading an AI innovation team for years. One of the publication’s recent efforts is in article personalization. Readers can slide a bar at the top of the article to access several versions of an explainer story, at varying word counts, based on whether they want more or less context.
“We’re really thinking about how we can not create content silos, which is the typical group for personalization. We instead focus on form — how a particular news piece is delivered,” said Raghu, in a session on creating AI laboratories in newsrooms.
José Jasán Nieves Cárdenas, the editor-in-chief of El Toque, shared the latest update on his newsroom’s tools that analyzes social media posts in order to output real-time currency exchange rates for the Cuban black market. Small businesses across Havana rely on the rates to set their daily prices. The newsroom, which largely operates in exile, is now rolling out a premium subscription version to create a new revenue stream and also using the same AI technology to track grocery prices.
In Tunisia, the digital outlet Nawaat has been publishing independent accountability reporting since 2004. Just 10 days before the Festival, Nawaat received an order from Tunisian state authorities to suspend all of its activities for the month of November, according to its co-founder and publisher, Sami Ben Gharbia. In the face of increasing censorship, Gharbia says they are leaning on AI tools to try to make Nawaat’s archive as accessible as possible, including its past reporting on the Tunisian revolution in 2011.
“We need a tool that will always make Nawaat a living memory of the entire recent history of Tunisia,” said Ben Gharbia, during a presentation on its new website, Nawaat Chronicles. “[The site] actually summarizes the entire archive — 22 years of our content that is published in French, in English, and in Arabic.”
Similar to other interactive news chatbots, Nawaat Chronicles uses its story archive to generate a written summary on a given topic, place, or person and links to cited articles. This tool, though, can also generate a chronological timeline of events. Its “time machine” feature will even spotlight the biggest themes and stories published during a given month in Nawaat’s history.
There is no magic detection tool
The importance of knowledge sharing across regions felt especially urgent during a panel about AI detection tools and other methods for rooting out deepfakes on social media.
Celine Samson, head of online verification at VERA Files, said deepfake ads selling products and scamming social media users have spiked across the Philippines. Nieman Lab has reported on how similar scam ads — which regularly feature deepfakes of broadcast journalists, as well as other public figures and celebrities — have also touched down in India, South Africa, the U.S., and the U.K.
In the face of these deepfakes, newsrooms may be tempted to turn to the many for-profit AI detection tools that have flooded the market. But Samson and other speakers cautioned against an overeliance on these tools.
“I have instructed my team to never rely just on one tool to build your fact check, because we know that tools can be unreliable,” said Samson.
For Stephanie Burnett, a digital verification editor at Reuters, who leads a global team of fact checkers, auditing these tools has become a part of the job. “My inbox is flooded with ‘we’ve got the magic tool’ and ‘this is the one,’” she said, explaining that there is no one-stop shop for AI detection. “What we’re trying to establish is our own Swiss army knife — so one that’s really good at detecting audio deep fakes, one that’s really good at visual deepfakes.”
Multiple speakers spoke highly of InVid, a video verification platform and plugin developed by Agence France–Presse (AFP) and a consortium of other European publications. InVid both integrates AI detection products and centralizes access to other analysis tools needed in the debunking workflow, like keyframe enhancers and reverse image search engines. Unlike some tools built by AI startups, InVid consulted journalists directly in its product development and some analysts said its reps are more accessible for troubleshooting.
In reviewing tools for your own newsroom, panelists said it’s important to remember that efficacy isn’t static, especially as new models launch. “Every time OpenAI updates its platform, or Google updates its platform, [these tools] have to play catch-up, so they’re always one step behind,” said Burnett.
Use AI to cover your blind spots
Throughout the conference talks, uses cases for investigative journalism shone through. These tools sift through tremendous amounts of information to identify story leads and, ultimately, automate tasks that couldn’t be done at scale manually due to resource constraints.
Nowhere was AI’s potential for investigative reporting more apparent than during CalMatters’s presentation on its custom-built Digital Democracy website.
In 2024, the state-focused nonprofit publication helped launch a revamped version of the site, which brings together over 200 data points from government databases all over California, including the voting records of each of the state’s 120 legislators. “None of it is secret. It’s all government information, but it’s impossible to find. It’s in many different places. It’s in obscure databases. It’s not easy to get,” said Neil Chase, the CEO of CalMatters, in a talk about the project.
Most of this work is done by bots and scripts that scrape data from these databases, but some is still done the old-fashioned way. “We do have college students come in every six months. We feed them pizza and pay them $20 an hour to read these forms and turn it into data. [Some of] the stuff is just not machine readable,” Chase added.
The AI system flags notable votes, like when a specific legislator votes against the interests of a major donor. The end product is not a finished article, but a tip sheet — a short write-up that can be used by CalMatters staffers and other reporters to do the shoe leather reporting still needed to file a story.
According to Chase, Digital Democracy now contains “every word spoken in the state government, every dollar donated to these politicians, every bill introduced, and every vote cast.” Reporters used that intel to publish an article and an Emmy-winning news segment on how California legislators regularly didn’t cast ballots at all, in an attempt to avoid the potential fallout of going on record on certain issues.
“They are now voting more often because of these stories we did,” said Chase. In September, CalMatters stepped outside of California and launched a similar tool for the Hawaiian state legislature in partnership with Honolulu Civil Beat.
In Spain, a fact-checking organization called Newtral has built out a custom AI tool to feed its reporters tips. One of the most challenging social media platforms for Newtral’s newsroom to monitor is the messaging app Telegram, which, among other challenges, doesn’t allow for keyword searches across the platform.
“Finding stories and communities that spread disinformation on Telegram is more of an artisan job,” said Marta Martínez Mora, a machine learning engineer at Newtral. That’s why Martínez Mora’s team decided to build an AI tool that could monitor every post on select suspicious channels and alert fact-checkers when a dangerous narrative was beginning to go viral.
FactFlow began by monitoring a list of known Telegram channels that spread disinformation. Today, it monitors roughly 7,000 Telegram channels. “We gathered messages from all those channels,” said Martínez Mora. “With that, what we actually did was train a model to understand disinformation patterns, to point out some contents that maybe were toxic or recurring dangerous narratives.”
FactFlow currently only monitors text-based messages, but as a next step the newsroom is hoping to build out similar functionality for image and video-based messages. To date, FactFlow has reviewed more than 10 million messages on Telegram. Now less time is spent in the newsroom simply monitoring channels, and more time on actually fact-checking posts.
“For some tasks, like identifying suspicious content and the [potential] falsehoods inside that content, before it took 45 minutes or even hours to do that. With FactFlow, it has taken one minute or seconds,” said Martínez Mora.
Photos of JournalismAI Festival 2025 at etc.venues Prospero House in London used courtesy of JournalismAI.
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“Your TV station is on fire”: A local TV news “survival guide” calls for stations to prioritize digital…yesterday
An ice-water wakeup call? A tough-love kick in the pants? A five-alarm fire?
The new “survival guide” from Northeastern’s Reinventing Local TV News Project does not mince words. Building on a survey of more than 1,000 adults ages 18 to 34, it lays out local TV broadcasts’ irrelevance to young audiences’ digital- and mobile-first news consumption habits with a brutal call to action.
For much of the 21st century, local TV news has appeared relatively stable – and profitable – next to the decimation of print. But in 2025, that profitability is slipping, as the same industry headwinds catch up to a sector that’s been slow to innovate. The report notes that “built-in financial advantages” including cable TV retransmission fees and political advertising may have helped hold off the industry’s demise, but now, “the warning signs are real.”
“Local TV news is facing its most critical challenge since the introduction of television 100 years ago,” the report’s authors write. “The audience that will determine the industry’s survival — 18- to 34-year-olds — has already moved to digital platforms where most TV stations barely exist, or struggle to effectively connect with the demographic.” In other words, “your TV station is on fire.”
This report, released in November, examines news consumption habits and presents best practices for connecting with younger audiences that it implores local TV stations to adopt ASAP.
“The choice is stark,” writes Mike Beaudet, an investigative TV reporter and professor of the practice in video innovation, in the report’s conclusion. “Adapt now with the proven strategies outlined in this survival guide or watch local TV news become a relic that failed democracy when it needed it most.” Visions for reinventing local TV news take different forms; another initiative aims to rebuild the funding model behind local TV news for streaming.
The Reinvent team partnered with audience research firm SmithGeiger Group to survey young adults. Some of the report’s topline recommendations:
Hire a “Digital Content Creator” immediately.
This is the report’s core ask of local TV stations. It describes this position dedicated to creating original content for digital platforms — and not just repurposing TV stories for social — as a “life raft role” and “the most important hire any newsroom can make right now.” To be successful, the authors recommend that this position be involved “early and everywhere” in story planning and production.
Research published this year suggests repurposing TV stories as digital content remains the default for most local TV stations. A survey of local broadcast stations by Harvard’s Shorenstein Center found that half of respondents place a “very high priority” on developing digital content and platforms. Yet just 16% of respondents said they’re producing a substantial amount of stand-alone digital content, whereas 28% said their digital content consists of stories previously aired on broadcasts, and another 55% described digital content as “heavily based on broadcast content.”
The research also notes that staff size is a major factor in TV stations’ ability to produce digital content. Newsrooms with 60 or more staff were three times as likely to produce original digital content as stations with 30 or fewer staff (37% v. 13%). That means the same have and have-not dynamic afflicting the rest of the local news landscape applies to local TV news; “areas where a strong digital presence from local TV stations is most needed is where it’s in shortest supply.” While two-thirds of respondents said a digital staff increase would be “important” or “very important” to serve community information needs, only 6% said such an increase was “very likely”; another 27% thought this “somewhat likely.”
As part of Reinvent’s research, the university team partnered with three local TV stations in major markets to pilot this position for a year. It embedded Digital Content Creator fellows in WCBS in New York City, WLS in Chicago, and WCVB in Boston. A fourth fellow collaborated with all three stations to produce graphics and animation. Two of the partner stations, WCVB and WCBS, hired their fellows to full-time positions following the fellowship year, The Boston Globe reported.
The report suggests a breakdown of a Digital Content Creator’s typical workday, including a regular dedication to newsroom coaching:
Newsrooms should not expect these positions to convert young audiences into linear TV viewers overnight, or at all. But “when a big story breaks or that next major storm approaches, your station may be the one they turn to because of this investment in brand-building,” the report states. With this position, “your brand is making inroads with a digital audience that your traditional newscasts are missing entirely.”
There’s an ideal length and structure for digital videos.
The magic video length, per Reinvent’s testing, is 50 seconds, plus or minus 10 seconds. Respondents watched three versions of the same story, and a majority said videos of this “medium” length “were both the right length and contained the right amount of information.” Perhaps more surprising, given a “shorter the better” zeitgeist, respondents were more likely to watch the entire medium-length video than the short one.
The most successful videos typically employ a “three-act structure,” a concept it credits to The Washington Post’s Joseph Ferguson: a hook, immediate answer and payoffs, and an “informative climax.”
Other video pro tips:
- “One story must take many forms.” The same story can be turned into a short-form vertical clip, a headline reel, an explainer carousel, a longer YouTube segment, or an animation-driven pull quote, “but only if appropriate time and resources are dedicated to each one.”
- Animation helps capture and direct audience attention, and increases retention of key information.
- Packaging matters – details like titles, thumbnails, metadata, and captions help connect videos with audiences, and should be platform-native.
- Young adults are looking for stories about local breaking news (41%) and weather (37%) on social media. And almost four in 10 “want a fun and informal approach to the news.” One-third of respondents each were looking for: positive, local stories; stories that feel “personal and authentic”; and stories about local arts, entertainment, and events.
- Audiences want to see behind the scenes of reporting:
Understand what metrics can (and cannot) tell you.
Reinvent wants TV stations to move away from ratings as the primary benchmark of success. It suggests six “WARMER” digital metrics to pay attention to:
“Metrics serve as a living feedback system that supports experimentation, helps clarify audience behavior, and sharpens team instincts over time,” per the report. For instance, low click-through rates could be a sign the thumbnail or headline need to better highlight the local or emotional hook. If retention drops in the first five to 10 seconds, a video might need a sharpened opening — “faster pacing, stronger visuals, or a clearer promise to the viewer.”
Comments are generally worth the hassle.
“Leave comments turned on whenever possible,” recommends a Reinvent social media working group. “Turning them off builds a hypothetical wall between you and your audience and restricts engagement. Use available tools such as built-in language and content filters, and only disable comments if a particular story results in inappropriate responses.”
Reinvent suggests paying attention to qualitative feedback to stories like clarifying questions, dialogue, and requests for follow-up coverage.
Download the full report here.
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Volkswagen Group Africa Completes Second Phase Of Solar Project: Kariega Factory Now Has 5.2MWp Of Onsite Solar
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‘Renewable’ No More: The Trump Administration Renames the National Renewable Energy Laboratory
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The Trump administration has renamed the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, now calling it the National Laboratory of the Rockies, marking an identity shift for the Colorado institution that has been a global leader in wind, solar and other renewable energy research.