The cost of diesel fuel in the US remains stubbornly high, even as US President Donald Trump experiments with various schemes to push prices down ahead of the mid-term elections.
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Two years ago, the EU imposed new tariffs on Chinese made electric cars because they were flooding the the new car market in Europe. For some reason, the European Commission decided not to place similar tariffs on plug-in hybrids made in China at the same time. The German auto industry ... [continued]
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“Fabric first” starts from a sensible building-efficiency idea. Improve insulation, stop unnecessary draughts, fix ventilation and reduce heat demand before replacing a gas or oil boiler with a heat pump. Some homes plainly need that work, and cheap measures such as loft insulation, draught repair and basic remediation can be ... [continued]
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In yet another sign that electric vehicles are here to stay, autonomous electric trucks are already operating along roads in Ohio and elsewhere around the US.
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I'm in Chicago for the Marathon and our son's birthday (he's running tomorrow). Also hanging with relatives and enjoying the city, which always feels to me like a giant Boston. (Color me wrong, it's okay.)
Meaning it was fully yours
Steven Levy: I’m Still Convinced the iPod Was the Perfect Gadget—Apple’s original music player got many things right. Chief among them: It didn’t connect to the internet.
WHITTED, Fla.—When Ann Jones runs her kitchen faucet, the water flows clear only some of the time. Sometimes the water is brown. Fill a pitcher, and the water is the color of iced tea.
From our collaborating partner “Living on Earth,” public radio’s environmental news magazine, an interview by host Steve Curwood with veteran Maine journalist Kevin Miller.
As of 4:00 a.m. central time on October 9, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration expects Hurricane Isaias to make landfall on the Gulf Coast late Friday or early Saturday, creating the potential for significant disruptions to energy infrastructure. Hurricane Isaias is the first hurricane of the 2026 Atlantic season ... [continued]
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Changing tide levels, shifting sands and hardened shorelines put waves at risk, affecting more than just surfers
The climate crisis is coming for some of the world’s greatest surf breaks, submerging some as sea level rises and wiping out others as classic breaks get crushed against coastal developments.
Analysis of dozens of famous waves in world surfing reserves (WSR) found more than three-quarters were at high risk because of changing tide levels, hardened shorelines and shifting sands.
Continue reading...New design, new interior, new name — in early 2027, the new ID. Tiguan will succeed the ID.4 and ID.5 — of which more than 950,000 units have been built At the level of the next class up — the ID. Tiguan’s interior impresses with a new display landscape including ... [continued]
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XPENG will serve as OICA Secretary of a newly established UNECE task force, bringing together regulators, technical experts and industry representatives to share real-world experience and insights on automated driving. GUANGZHOU, China — XPENG has taken on a key international role in advancing global collaboration on automated driving through the ... [continued]
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MARTINEZ, Calif.—Scores of people tired of living near accident-prone refineries packed an elementary school auditorium to hear what their government officials were doing to protect them.
A crude oil pipeline spill last month in the Detroit suburbs has prompted federal authorities to open an investigation into the safety of all 20,000 miles of hazardous liquids pipelines operated by Energy Transfer.
Is the construction industry ready for battery powered machinery like front end loaders, backhoes, and excavators? Falco Construction in the UK recently completed a two year trial of two TB20e electric excavators manufactured by Takeuchi. That trial convinced Falco those machines were fully capable of of meeting its needs. As ... [continued]
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The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission issued an unusual warning this week to the country’s largest asset managers and a climate-focused investor group over their roles in a 2021 campaign that replaced board directors at ExxonMobil.
Graphyte’s Carbon Casting process is unusually tangible for engineered carbon removal. Residual biomass is dried, compressed into dense blocks, protected from water and microbes, and stored underground so its carbon stays out of the atmosphere for a very long time. Compared with direct air capture and some other carbon-removal proposals, ... [continued]
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As the Commission prepares the AFIR review, we call on the review to establish an EU framework for semi-private charging, alongside public and private charging. A substantial share of truck charging is expected to take place at operators’ depots and destinations, where charging can be integrated into daily operations. Depot ... [continued]
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This story is part of an investigation conducted by an international team of journalists based at The Outlaw Ocean Project. Read the other stories here.
There is a 100 per cent chance the conditions will last into the Northern Hemisphere winter, JMA says
Around 100 Baltimore residents packed a community hall in the Curtis Bay neighborhood on the evening of Oct. 1. One after another, they implored the Maryland Department of the Environment not to renew the air permit for the city’s largest trash incinerator.
The strongest El Niño recorded is expected to bring a cascade of hazards to a state still facing wildfire and heat risks, while budget cuts have weakened disaster response agencies
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Before this year, the US National Weather Service had never issued a September coastal flood advisory for the San Francisco Bay Area. In the past month, it has had to issue two.
As flood water swallowed intersections and eroded beaches up and down the California coast last week, scientists and emergency managers warned that this is just an early signal of a coming tumultuous winter as an already exceptional El Niño continues to strengthen. It’s been called everything from “super” to “Godzilla”, as forecasters hammer home the message that conditions brewing in the Pacific Ocean could soon climb off the charts, and fuel extreme weather around the world.
Comebacks for wild tigers, tuna and sea turtles prove nature loss can be reversed, scientists say
Revealed: the methane mega-leaks from UN climate summit host Turkey
To cull or not to cull: Greenland debates fate of world’s slowest shark
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The first hurricane of the Atlantic season was forecast to intensify rapidly and cause dangerous conditions in the Florida Panhandle, southern Alabama and southern Mississippi when it makes landfall late Friday or early Saturday.
(Image credit: National Oceanic and Atmospheric)
This is David’s 1000th article for CleanTechnica! In September, 2026, a total of 108,778 new vehicles were delivered to Australian drivers. Of these, 36,000 came with a plug, giving a penetration rate of 33%; that is 24% BEV (26,000) and 9% PHEV (10,072). All numbers and percentages are approximate. CarExpert ... [continued]
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A new report paints a dark picture of the state of global wildlife—but also highlights flickers of light where some populations are on the upswing.
Every year, the number of manufacturers making residential heat pump water heaters (HPWH) for the American market continues to grow. A decade ago, there were just a handful of HPWH manufacturers. In 2026, with Lennox and Reservoir bringing HPWHs to market, the total number has reached 17. Two more are ... [continued]
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A few days ago, Trump signed an executive order allowing the highway use of tax-free, red-dyed, off-road diesel through the end of the year. With diesel prices surging past $6.30 a gallon due to geopolitical conflicts abroad, waiving the 24.4-cent federal excise tax sounds like a lifeline to truckers and ... [continued]
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We’re back with a pop-up newsletter before the midterms! Welcome to Climate on the Ballot, the weekly elections email from the editors at Covering Climate Now. Our goal from now through November 3 is to help you and your newsroom illuminate politics’ role in addressing climate change and integrate climate into your coverage of this year’s midterms — at the local, state, and national levels.
Since Trump’s return to office, incumbent politicians, candidates, and large swaths of the media have grown increasingly quiet on climate change. “Climate hushing,” it’s come to be known. The trend persists even though the climate connection with this year’s top voter concerns — affordability and the economy — is crystal clear; cheap, clean energy is an affordable energy solution.
So, why is this happening?
Democrats, wrongly, think they’ll lose votes if they talk about climate change, explains Dr. Leah Stokes, a professor of environmental politics at University of California Santa Barbara and the author of the new book The Carbon Wave and The Electric Era Substack, in a recent live conversation with CCNow about rising energy bills. “Inside Climate News made this really interesting report where they looked at all the press releases that Democrats are putting out,” she said. “Back in 2021, when there was a lot of climate coverage, one in nine press releases… talked about climate change. This year it’s one in 50, which is 2%.”
But that decision is misguided, according to a July 2026 study by The 2035 Initiative, a research collaboration out of UC Santa Barbara. A survey of 3,500 registered voters found that voters from both parties said they’d be more likely to vote for candidates who talked about climate change, by a four- to five-point margin. Among committed Democrats, it was 9.5 points.
Senator Sheldon Whitehouse, who hasn’t stopped talking about climate change since 2012, agrees that “climate hushing” is a lost opportunity and a strategic mistake. “It’s now battering people’s home insurance, property values, [and] pocketbook concerns,” he recently told the Associated Press.
During Climate Week NYC, California governor Gavin Newsom condemned his party’s silence on climate change. In a CCNow-organized newsmaker interview, the governor agreed that candidates must be “laser-focused” on affordability concerns, but that they’ve got to “connect the dots” with the economic impacts extreme heat, drought, and other climate impacts are having.
“There is, it turns out, an often overlooked solution to the climate problem — and that is journalism,” wrote CCNow co-founder Kyle Pope in an op-ed for World Journalism Day. “Journalism has the potential to help the public break through on climate change. By dismissing the narrative that people don’t care, and identifying what’s needed to urgently solve the problem — in the voting booth, on the streets, in people’s homes — news outlets have an opportunity, and duty, to join with their audiences to solve the most urgent issue of our lives.”
– Theresa Riley, CCNow’s Audience Editor
Check out our new 2026 Elections Guide for the latest polls and studies connecting climate to local and national races, video recaps of live conversations with experts on energy affordability and voter concerns, and a collection of stories we like about how climate factors into local, state, and congressional races. We’ll be adding more content and resources to the guide through Election Day!
The next Climate on the Ballot will look at climate-first voters and new data from the Environmental Voter Project (EVP). In many states, including key battlegrounds like Arizona, Georgia, and North Carolina, EVP found that “unlikely voters” are twice as likely to list climate change as a top priority as people who actually turn out. Have you talked with these “climate-first voters” for a story? Send them to us at theresa[at]coveringclimatenow[dot]org.
Climate on the Ballot 2026 Reporting Initiative. We’d love to lift up the great coverage you’re doing about how climate factors into local, state, and congressional races. Send us your reporting to be featured in a curated selection of pieces helping voters understand how climate change is on the ballot this November. Email theresa[at]coveringclimatenow[dot]org with questions, ideas, and links to stories.
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Silkroad — the arts organization founded by Yo-Yo Ma and led artistically by Pulitzer- and Grammy Award-winning artist Rhiannon Giddens — today announced Sanctuary: The Power of Resonance and Ritual. The new podcast series, hosted by Giddens, is made and brought to listeners in partnership with Peabody Award-honored public media organization PRX.
An audio trailer is available now. The debut episode will be released on October 15, and new episodes will be released weekly on Thursdays. Sanctuary: The Power of Resonance and Ritual is available free across all major podcast platforms, including Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music, Overcast, and NPR One:
In spring 2026, Rhiannon Giddens and the acclaimed musicians of the Silkroad Ensemble toured the country with Sanctuary, a musical program centered on communal experience, cross-cultural collaboration, and participation. As the United States marks its 250th anniversary, Sanctuary: The Power of Resonance and Ritual continues this exploration of the many cultures and musical traditions that have shaped the country, while also looking beyond its borders to the ways communities around the world find sanctuary through music. Through stories, interviews, and performances, Giddens and Silkroad artists explore these traditions and the communities that sustain them.
“Sanctuary began with a question: What is music for? Across cultures and throughout history, people have turned to music not simply for entertainment, but to mark important moments, process grief, celebrate, heal, and find their way back to one another. This podcast gives us the opportunity to explore those traditions and the people who carry them forward — and to ask what they can teach us about finding sanctuary in our own lives,” said Silkroad’s Artistic Director Rhiannon Giddens.
The podcast’s first episode will delve into the Pizzica, a folk dance tradition from southern Italy in which people move, breathe, and heal together in response to suffering. Described by renowned ethnomusicologist Massimiliano Morabito as “a sophisticated and complex form of cultural therapy,” listeners will also hear how musicians create the tradition’s rhythms. The episode also explores other ways music can facilitate healing and connection, including a neurologist in Illinois using tempo and pitch to help patients with neurological conditions, an organization in Arkansas bringing war veterans and musicians together to process difficult experiences through songwriting, and a Silkroad Ensemble performance at George Mason University’s Center for the Arts in Virginia.
The series also traverses Armenian displacement and the recovery of family history; the Ukrainian music collective Kommuna Lux and music’s ability to preserve connections to home, language, and culture in the wake of war; the Oakland Public Conservatory’s work expanding access to Black music education; the spiritual tradition of Moroccan Gnawa music; and the freedom and refuge found through musical improvisation.
“Sanctuary is at the heart of what Silkroad does: bringing people and musical traditions together to create connection across difference. The touring program gave audiences an opportunity to experience that connection together in the concert hall, and this podcast allows us to take those ideas and stories even further. We’re excited to partner with PRX to share these voices and explore the many ways music can help us find common ground, create community, and imagine a more hopeful world,” stated Silkroad’s President & CEO Ben Hartley.
Sanctuary: The Power of Resonance and Ritual follows Silkroad, Giddens, and PRX’s 2024 podcast collaboration American Railroad, illuminating the buried history, music, and enduring impact of those who built America’s railway systems. The series won a Silver Award in the Arts & Culture category at the 2025 Signal Awards.
Visit silkroad.org for more about the organization’s projects, performances, and impact.
david.cotrone@prx.org
Support for the new podcast, Sanctuary: The Power of Resonance and Ritual, is provided by the Andrew Carnegie Foundation and the Alice L. Walton Foundation.
Yo-Yo Ma conceived Silkroad in 1998, recognizing the historical Silk Road as a model for cultural collaboration — for the exchange of ideas, tradition, and innovation across borders. In a groundbreaking experiment, he brought together musicians from the lands of the Silk Road to co-create a musical language founded in difference, thus creating the foundation of Silkroad: both a touring ensemble comprised of world-class musicians from all over the globe and a Boston-based non-profit organization working to make a positive impact across borders through the arts.
Today, under the leadership of Artistic Director Rhiannon Giddens and President & CEO Ben Hartley, Silkroad leads social impact initiatives and educational programming alongside the creation of new music by the Grammy Award-winning Silkroad Ensemble. To learn more, please visit silkroad.org and @silkroadproject on social media.
Rhiannon Giddens has made a singular, iconic career out of stretching her brand of folk music, with its miles-deep historical roots and contemporary sensibilities, into just about every field imaginable. A two-time GRAMMY Award-winning singer and multi-instrumentalist, MacArthur “Genius” grant recipient, Pulitzer Prize winner, and composer of opera, ballet, and film, Giddens has centered her work around the mission of lifting up people whose contributions to American musical history have previously been overlooked or erased, and advocating for a more accurate understanding of the country’s musical origins through art.
Giddens has released three albums under her own name and two in collaboration with Italian multi-instrumentalist Francesco Turrisi, all on Nonesuch Records. American Railroad, her first album in collaboration with the Silkroad Ensemble, was released in November 2024. A collaboration with Justin Robinson, What Did the Blackbird Say to the Crow, was released in April 2025.
A founding member of the landmark Black string band Carolina Chocolate Drops, and the all-female banjo supergroup, Our Native Daughters, Giddens is as much a curator as a creator. She is the current Artistic Director of the Yo-Yo Ma-founded Silkroad Ensemble, hosts a TV show on PBS, My Music with Rhiannon Giddens, and has hosted two podcasts (Aria Code from New York City’s NPR affiliate station WQXR, which ran for three seasons, and American Railroad from Silkroad). Giddens has published two children’s books and written and performed music for the soundtrack of Red Dead Redemption II, one of the best-selling video games of all time. She was a music consultant for 2025’s landmark film Sinners, and appeared as a recurring cast member on ABC’s hit drama Nashville and as a music history expert on Ken Burns’ Country Music series on PBS. In 2025, she launched her own music festival in Durham, NC called Biscuits & Banjos, to celebrate Black culture outside the mainstream, and in 2026 she turned that initiative into a Foundation to house her mission-based work, the Biscuits and Banjos Foundation.
As Pitchfork once said, “few artists are so fearless and so ravenous in their exploration” — a journey that has led to NPR naming her one of its 25 Most Influential Women Musicians of the 21st Century and to
American Songwriter calling her “one of the most important musical minds currently walking the planet.”
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.
Silkroad and PRX Present “Sanctuary: The Power of Resonance and Ritual” Hosted by Rhiannon Giddens was originally published in PRX Official on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.
There are a significant number of people who loathe renewable energy. The so-called president of the United States is one, but he is far from alone. It’s hard to understand what the objections are to renewables. What could possibly be wrong with generating electricity with fuel that is available everywhere ... [continued]
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Before being elected Canada’s prime minister in April 2025, Mark Carney championed ambitious climate action grounded in rigorous science. As the head of the Bank of England, he warned that limiting temperature rise to 2 degrees Celsius would require leaving trillions of dollars’ worth of oil, gas, and coal in the ground. Fearing a repeat of the 2008 global financial collapse, he then ordered UK banks to undergo climate stress tests to demonstrate they could remain solvent if most fossil fuels were indeed left undeveloped.
Now, though, facing threats from US president Donald Trump, Carney has said that Canada should become “a global energy superpower.” How? By boosting exports of the very fossil fuels he once warned against, including the super-dirty oil sands that gave rise to the landmark Keystone XL protests 15 years ago.
The Climate Beat occasionally republishes significant journalism by Covering Climate Now partners. (Email CCNow’s Executive Editor, Anna Hiatt, at anna@coveringclimatenow.org with pitches.) This week, Chris Hatch highlights Carney’s about-face in “Zero Carbon,” his newsletter for Canada’s National Observer; subscribe here.
It was quite a week on the fossil front in Canada. On September 29 prime minister Mark Carney arrived in Vancouver to celebrate the multinational consortium moving ahead to build LNG Canada Phase 2. It will become the second-largest liquid natural gas facility in the world, the PM cheered.
Carney, along with British Columbia premier David Eby, also “welcomed” the decision by TC Energy to double the capacity of the Coastal Gas Link pipeline, which will boost the transport of fossil gas to the Pacific coast from the fracking grounds in Alberta and northeastern BC.
Two days later, Carney and Danielle Smith, the premier of Alberta province, appeared on a podium in Fort McMurray. Dwarfed by a gargantuan, self-driving oilsands truck, they announced that a new bitumen pipeline had been designated as being in the “national interest.” It will be called the Pacific Link and will be fast-tracked to the West Coast.
Amongst the frenzy of fossil fuel announcements, Carney paused to announce funds for Canada’s beleaguered Pacific coast: A boost to the “ocean protection” budget; an offering to allay pesky concerns over the vanishing Southern Resident orcas whose plight might stymie the nation’s quest to become a seafaring superpower in oil and gas.
It would be wrong to say that concerns about the climate didn’t figure at all in these announcements. On both days, flicking between TV stations, you would have seen chyrons crawling across the screen noting that Swiss glaciers had lost one-fifth of their ice in the past five years. Or that California had declared a state of emergency as homes washed away and a “Kelvin wave,” boosted by global heating, was closing in. Another caption mentioned fires in Indonesia choking cities in Asia.
Meanwhile, the climate content of Canadian officials’ announcements veered between tortured logic and outright celebration over knocking back climate action. Carney said the world faces a three-front energy crisis, one third of which is “the existential challenge of climate change.” Then, with barely a segue, he outlined a world where oil demand will create lucrative economic opportunities for decades to come. “The question is: who will emerge as the world’s trusted suppliers? It should be us. … The oil sands are part of Canada’s once-in-a-generation opportunity to become a global energy superpower.”
Premier Smith then recounted the climate policies Alberta had beaten back to arrive at the Pacific Link announcement. Alberta forced the feds to get rid of the electric vehicle mandate, Smith said. A cap on emissions from the oil and gas sector was removed, and there will be an “abeyance” of clean electricity regulations. A graceful winner, Smith did not bring up the PM’s requirement from less than a year ago that any new pipeline would have to be built by the private sector.
It would be one thing if the arguments for expanding fossil fuels were geostrategic or economic. The public could weigh the projects and forecasts against protection of lives, species and livelihoods. Instead, the political pronouncements have been corrosive, equating fossil fuels with climate protection and pipelines with nature.
Do you care about killer whales? We have just the pipeline for you, runs the argument. Or, in Carney’s more subtle telling, ocean protection and the pipeline are all “part of one plan.”
Worried about a future filled with ever more megatonnes and gigatonnes of carbon pollution? Relax, our fossil fuels are a form of climate action, runs the tortured logic. Canada’s gas is “low emissions” and our oil is “low carbon,” repeated the premier, prime minister and every cabinet member in range of a microphone. Never mind that all these claims amount to rounding errors in the full life cycle of climate pollution.
No one at the podiums was saying outright that the more fossil fuels we burn, the more we save. But they’re inching right up to it. Fossil fuels are climate action. Pipelines are nature protection. If the public absorbs those comforting conflations, maybe that’s all part of the plan.
RSVP: Climate Change’s Toxic Hazards. CCNow will explore the intersection of toxic pollution, Superfund sites, and climate change on Tuesday, October 13, at 12pm US Eastern Time. Hear from journalists who have reported on these rising toxic risks in some of the most vulnerable states — Florida, Louisiana, New Jersey, and California.
Radar Clima: Nuestra generación está viendo cómo desaparecen los glaciares. Son vitales para el suministro de agua de millones de personas en América Latina, y estamos presenciando su retroceso y extinción. ¿Qué significa esto para las comunidades que dependen de ellos? ¿Hay soluciones que estén funcionando? Échale un vistazo a las ediciones anteriores de Radar Clima y suscríbete para recibir el boletín los miércoles.
Watch: Climate on the Ballot: Voters Want Candidates to Talk About It. CCNow’s Kyle Pope talked with Nathaniel Stinnett of the Environmental Voter Project, Matto Mildenberger of The 2035 Initiative at UC Santa Barbara, and Kate Yoder of Grist yesterday about recent polling that shows climate is on voters’ minds, what races to watch, and what elected officials are and aren’t saying about climate action.
Far-right gains. The results of the Brazil elections are concerning Indigenous and environmental organizations, who say that Bolsonaro’s party, which won the most seats in Congress, threatens Indigenous peoples. By Jonathan Watts for The Guardian…
Climate at SCOTUS. On Monday, the US Supreme Court heard arguments in Suncor v. Boulder, one of dozens of climate accountability lawsuits brought by states, local municipalities, tribes, and people against oil companies for the harm climate change has wrought. The justices “weren’t buying some of Big Oil’s arguments.” By Emily Sanders and Rebecca Leber for Point Source News…
Mothers at risk. At pre-COP meetings taking place this week in Fiji, attendees campaigned to put the maternal risks of climate change on the agenda at the upcoming talks in Antalya, Turkey, next month. Pregnancy is becoming “a time of anxiety, as climate impacts fill everyday life with risk,” said Simon Stiell, the head of the UNFCCC. By Megan Rowling for Climate Home News…
‘Habitability crisis.’ In France, one question dominated media coverage and public conversations over the course of the summer heatwaves: “Should we move to escape the furnace?” This carousel explores the question of how climate change is forcing us to reconsider our relationship to our lived environments. By @lemonde_en on Instagram…
“We’ve stopped naming what is happening to us.”
– Dr. Leah Stokes, lamenting the “silence from so many politicians and media outlets” as climate change drives humanity “toward an off-the-charts ‘Super El Niño.’”
How’d they do that? Journalists from Europe, South America, the Philippines, and the US who published blockbuster climate investigations that combined innovative data analysis with on-the-ground reporting to uncover critical environmental issues share their process. By Diego Arguedas Ortiz for the Global Investigative Journalism Network…
UK’s Reform Party is launching a “newsroom,” hiring people to staff “a modern operation designed around how audiences consume content today, and how they’ll consume it tomorrow,” Aaron Lobo, who was previously Farage’s executive producer at GB News and then Reform’s director of operations, wrote on LinkedIn. By Charlotte Tobitt for Press Gazette…
Media ‘behemoth.’ The Paramount–Warner Bros. Discovery merger was completed this week after a nearly year-long battle. The new company Skydance will oversee US television networks CBS, CBS News, CBS Sports, CNN, TNT, TBS, Nickelodeon, and MTV, among others.
Jobs. Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism is hiring a David Laventhol Visiting Professor (New York, NY). The Bureau of Investigative Journalism is hiring a Climate and Environment Editor (London). CBS Miami is hiring a Meteorologist (Miami). Telemundo is hiring a Meteorologist (Dallas, Texas). KWES-TV is hiring a Chief Meteorologist (Midland-Odessa, Texas). WBZ-TV is hiring a Meteorologist (Boston, Mass.). Inside Climate News is hiring a Senior Editor (remote, American West preferred). Science News Media Group is hiring a Social Media Manager (Washington, DC). Floodlight is hiring an Operations and Development Coordinator (remote). Sentient is hiring a Food and Farming Storytelling Fund Program Manager (remote, two-year term). The New York Times is hiring a Correspondent, The Economics of a Warming World and Audience Editor, Climate and Science (New York, NY). Semafor is hiring an Asia Editor (remote, ideally Singapore).
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Over the coming months, in each edition of this newsletter, we’ll be spotlighting one category from the 2026 Covering Climate Now Journalism Awards. See all the winning work and help us celebrate the winners here.
This week, we’re highlighting winners from the Justice category. Climate change often hits first and hardest marginalized countries and communities that have contributed the least to the problem. While justice is mentioned in many climate stories, in this category, judges considered work featuring a justice angle as its primary subject — among them: peril and hope on the frontlines of the climate crisis, unexpected intersections of climate change with other systems of injustice, and marginalized groups pioneering solutions to show the world a path forward.
Inside the Indonesian Boomtowns Powering the World’s Electric Vehicles
By Wufei Yu
Grist
The Eaton Fire’s Impact on Black Families
By Adam Mahoney
Capital B
Beneath the Panel: The Hidden Losses of India’s Solar Parks
By Aparna Ganesan with Jai, Jeeva, Dinesh Raja, Siva, Sachin Bharathvaj, R Mugesh & Roli Srivastava
The Migration Story (India)
Check out the citations for these winners and find links to their stories here.
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A conversation with the Pulitzer Center’s Flora Pereira This month Innovation in Focus spoke with Flora Pereira, the Chief Impact Officer at the Pulitzer Center about how newsrooms can prioritize impact and audience at the center of their everyday work — and why newsrooms should have an impact strategy at the beginning of their reporting and product creation process. Her work focuses on how…
The argument for bringing liquefied natural gas to Oʻahu is straightforward enough. LNG could replace oil for a period, potentially lower generation costs and give Hawaiʻi more time to build out renewable electricity. The difficulty is that Hawaiʻi law requires electric utilities to reach 100% renewable electricity generation by 2045, ... [continued]
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