Turning anxiety into powerful action, students led and teachers followed during the September 20 climate strike.
Covering Climate Now
The planet is at a precipice, yet much of the media persists in ignoring the urgency of the moment. It’s time to reverse that lethal trend. Therefore, Truthout is proud to join with more than 200 other news outlets for Covering Climate Now, a project geared toward deepening media coverage of the climate crisis. Over the next week, leading up to the UN Climate Action Summit on September 23, we will double down on climate journalism, making this staggeringly important issue an even greater focus of our reporting and analysis. Spearheaded by Columbia Journalism Review and The Nation in partnership with publications around the world, Covering Climate Now will reach hundreds of millions of people. At Truthout, we have an intrepid week of original coverage planned, including both investigative reporting and insightful commentary from leading thinkers. We will also be sharing some of the best climate coverage published by other outlets that are part of the collaboration. We invite you to join us for this vital media organizing effort to shine a spotlight on the central issue of our time.
A project of mass mobilization would provide us with a collective mission to heal a damaged Earth.
We can repair the Earth’s ruptured carbon cycle by recarbonizing it with the living carbon of biodiversity.
The White House booked a room so Trump could attend a gathering in the same building as the UN climate summit.
Governments must prioritize a just and rapid transition away from fossil fuels to renewables.
Agribusiness and Wall Street are preventing farmers from adopting more regenerative farming practices.
Young people are outraged that they are being left a world with an increasingly punishing climate and social insecurity.
Two years ago, I waited out Hurricane Maria, a climate-fueled disaster. I won’t wait out pushing for climate action.
On September 27, activists will walk out of school and work, suspend commercial activity and boycott banks.
The U.S. must abandon its toxic climate imperialism and embrace the transition to a peaceful, sustainable planet.