The climate and ecological emergency is the biggest threat facing the human world. So it would be reasonable to expect that news media would be keeping us constantly informed. Sadly, that isn’t the case. Newspapers mainly reflect the political agendas of their owners and editors. Climate change and action to prevent it is a threat to right-wing newspaper owners and their friends in polluting industries, so useful information about the crisis doesn’t tend to appear in these newspapers. By newspapers, I mean traditional printed media and their digital counterparts.
I took a look at which newspapers have dedicated climate and environment sections. This seemed likely to indicate what priority these newspapers accorded to the crisis. First UK newspapers:
Climate sections:
The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-crisis
BBC https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-56837908
Financial Times https://www.ft.com/climate-capital
The Independent https://www.independent.co.uk/climate-change
The Economist https://www.economist.com/climate-change
The New Statesman https://www.newstatesman.com/environment
The Morning Star https://www.morningstaronline.co.uk/tags/climate-crisis
The Times https://www.thetimes.co.uk/environment
Around the world.
Le Monde https://www.lemonde.fr/en/climate/
Der Spiegel https://www.spiegel.de/thema/klimawandel/ (in German)
La Croix International https://international.la-croix.com/category/environment/21
The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/section/climate
Los Angeles Times https://www.latimes.com/environment
San Francisco Chronicle https://www.sfchronicle.com/climate/
Other sources:
Nature https://www.nature.com/nclimate/
Planet Forward https://www.planetforward.org/
Arctic News http://arctic-news.blogspot.com/
Desmog https://www.desmog.com/
Ask NASA https://climate.nasa.gov/ask-nasa-climate
Climate Links https://www.climatelinks.org/blog
NOAA Climate https://www.climate.gov/
