The UK’s Climate National Emergency Briefing Should Be a Wake-Up Call to Everyone The UK’s Climate National Emergency Briefing Should Be a Wake-Up Call to Everyone
The briefing was a rare coordinated effort to make sure the media reflects the science: Humanity’s planetary house is on fire, but we have the tools to put that fire out.
Dec 11, 2025 / Mark Hertsgaard
Backsliding in Belém Backsliding in Belém
Petrostates at COP30 quash fossil fuel and deforestation phaseouts.
Nov 24, 2025 / Mark Hertsgaard
Indigenous Activists to COP30: “We Will Fight to the Death” Indigenous Activists to COP30: “We Will Fight to the Death”
Indigenous people lead COP30 protests against agribusinesses that “want to take everything.”
Nov 17, 2025 / Mark Hertsgaard
Global Leaders Are Glad the US Isn’t Attending COP30 Global Leaders Are Glad the US Isn’t Attending COP30
Momentum behind decarbonizing the global economy has built to the point where it is inevitable—with or without the United States.
Nov 13, 2025 / Mark Hertsgaard
Coming Sunday: The People Behind the Climate Numbers Coming Sunday: The People Behind the Climate Numbers
The next phase of The 89 Percent Project profiles climate’s supermajority.
Oct 23, 2025 / Mark Hertsgaard
Reporting the Truth When Politicians Lie Reporting the Truth When Politicians Lie
With the global rise of organized misinformation campaigns, outlets should embrace “the truth sandwich” and place a false claim between the actual facts.
Oct 9, 2025 / Mark Hertsgaard
The World’s Newsrooms Can Learn From Bill McKibben’s Climate Journalism The World’s Newsrooms Can Learn From Bill McKibben’s Climate Journalism
Traditional journalists complain that he is an advocate—the same criticism Woodward and Bernstein faced during Watergate.
Sep 25, 2025 / Mark Hertsgaard and Kyle Pope
Are We Distracting Ourselves Into Climate Catastrophe? Are We Distracting Ourselves Into Climate Catastrophe?
When shocking news about how soon civilization might collapse is overshadowed by Taylor Swift’s engagement, we might have a problem.
Sep 11, 2025 / Mark Hertsgaard
News Avoidance and the Climate Majority News Avoidance and the Climate Majority
The next phase of Covering Climate Now’s 89 Percent Project puts faces to the numbers.
Sep 4, 2025 / Mark Hertsgaard
“It’s a Warning, Set to a Dance Beat”: Jon Batiste on His New Song 20 Years After Katrina “It’s a Warning, Set to a Dance Beat”: Jon Batiste on His New Song 20 Years After Katrina
The New Orleans jazz great tells Covering Climate Now, “When you make a song, you want to inspire people, but you also want to let them know what they can do.”
Aug 28, 2025 / Mark Hertsgaard