Climate Change

A car is seen part submerged in floodwater in England, 2019.

Americans Are Concerned About Climate Change—but They Should Be Afraid Americans Are Concerned About Climate Change—but They Should Be Afraid

Americans still don’t comprehend how imminent, dangerous, and far-reaching the threat is—and journalists are partly to blame.

Jul 17, 2025 / Mark Hertsgaard

US Senator Sheldon Whitehouse, Democrat from Rhode Island, speaks during an interview on Capitol Hill on July 8, 2025, in Washington, DC.

Has the Climate Movement Been Too Polite? This Senator Thinks So. Has the Climate Movement Been Too Polite? This Senator Thinks So.

US Senator Sheldon Whitehouse called on Democrats to stop enabling the fossil fuel industry’s “malevolent propaganda operation.”

Jul 10, 2025 / Mark Hertsgaard

Children's clothes hang on the branch of a tree on the bank of the Guadalupe River near Camp Mystic on July 6, 2025, in Hunt, Texas.

Summer Camp Kids Did Not Have to Die in the Texas Floods Summer Camp Kids Did Not Have to Die in the Texas Floods

The deadly consequences of Trump’s National Weather Service budget cuts.

Jul 7, 2025 / David Dickson and Mark Hertsgaard

Amsterdam climate protest

People Want Climate Action. This Data Shows It. People Want Climate Action. This Data Shows It.

It's an extraordinary popular mandate that extends across partisan divides and national borders.

Jul 3, 2025 / Mark Hertsgaard

Greenpeace activists deploy a giant banner at St. Mark’s Square in Venice on June 23, 2025.

Bezos Does Venice Bezos Does Venice

Back in New York City, Mamdani’s win shows even billionaires don’t always get what they want.

Jul 1, 2025 / Katrina vanden Heuvel

Bill Moyers in 2012.

Bill Moyers Helped Break the Media’s Climate Silence Bill Moyers Helped Break the Media’s Climate Silence

When Bill Moyers helped launch the Covering Climate Now media collaboration, he urged fellow journalists to “tell the story so people get it.”

Jun 30, 2025 / Obituary / Mark Hertsgaard and Kyle Pope

Peter Thiel speaks at a lectern, holding microphone in front of audience at The Cambridge Union.

The Billionaires Are Abandoning Humanity The Billionaires Are Abandoning Humanity

Peter Thiel and his friends feel they no longer belong to our species.

Jun 30, 2025 / Jeet Heer

David Schechter

CBS News Leans Into the Climate Connection CBS News Leans Into the Climate Connection

Since Trump’s election, the network has produced more than 60 stories on the climate crisis.

Jun 26, 2025 / Mark Hertsgaard

Smoke fumes cover a neighborhood in Beirut following an Israeli air strike on October 19, 2024.

The Climate Costs of War The Climate Costs of War

Scientific analyses show that the Ukraine and Middle East wars have unleashed staggering amounts of planet-warming emissions.

Jun 20, 2025 / Mark Hertsgaard

A nuclear test on May 25, 1953, at the Nevada Proving Grounds.

Nuclear Winter Is a Climate Issue Nuclear Winter Is a Climate Issue

It would be the most severe and abrupt disruption to global ecological systems. Yet in many mainstream climate narratives, it’s rarely discussed.

Jun 19, 2025 / Norman Solomon

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