Truthout
Covering Climate Now
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.
![Covering Climate Now Logo](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2019/09/Covering-Climate-Now-Logo-1116x675.png)
![A giant sequoia in California’s KNP Complex Fire in 2021.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2022/08/2022_0809-trees-1-400x300.jpg)
Mass Death of Sequoias Is the Harbinger of Earth Systems Collapse
We have entered an era where burned forests may not return unless we cool Earth to below the tipping point.
![We have moved past the stage of observing the effects of climate change and are living amid its consequences.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2022/08/2022_0805-iceberg-pollution-400x300.jpg)
Climate Reality Is Hitting Us Like a Breakaway Glacier
We have moved past the stage of observing the effects of climate change and are living amid its consequences.
![A drone view of Enea Power Station in Połaniec on July 28, 2022.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2022/07/GettyImages-1242167869-400x300.jpg)
Carbon Capture Won’t Work, But It Will Funnel Billions to Corporations
Fossil fuel interests persuaded the government to waste billions on false schemes that don’t solve the climate crisis.
![A solar energy farm soaks in the sun near Fort Stockton, Texas, on April 10, 2021.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2022/07/GettyImages-1232236896-400x300.jpg)
As Texas Grid Falters, Energy Advocates Urge Biden to Declare Climate Emergency
Reinstating an oil export ban could also potentially lower gas prices while supporting Gulf Coast communities of color.
![Young climate activists stage a rally in Lafayette Park across from the White House on Earth Day on April 22, 2022, in Washington, D.C.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2022/07/2022_0721-climate-activists-400x300.jpg)
Young Workers Are Bridging the Climate and Labor Movements
Ongoing organizing in the labor movement could have enormous implications for curbing the climate crisis.
![A worker installs solar panels on a rooftop](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2022/07/2022_0720-solar-panels-400x300.jpg)
It’s Time for Public Power. New York State Could Lead the Way.
It's time to take electrical power generation and distribution out of the hands of polluting, for-profit corporations.
![A crossing guard stands next to a sign that says 92 degrees](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2022/07/GettyImages-1390172737-400x300.jpg)
The National Weather Service Is Unwittingly Obscuring Reality of Global Warming
The National Weather Service’s 30-year averaging procedure not only masks warming, it understates it, too.
![A boat sails through a deepening algae bloom across the Caloosahatchee River on June 27, 2018, in Labelle, Florida.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2022/07/2022_0701-algae-bloom-400x300.jpg)
CDC Warns Public to Avoid the Toxic Algae “Blooming” in Warming Waters
Pollution and climate change are fueling harmful algae in nearly every state.
![Just south of Charleston, West Virginia, a coal barge travels up the Kanawha River, passing the Dupont chemical plant. West Virginia joined other states and the coal industry in challenging the EPA's authority over air pollution from power plants.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2022/06/2022_0630-coal-c-400x300.jpg)
Supreme Court Curbs EPA’s Power to Limit Climate-Warming Emissions
Experts say it will be difficult or impossible for Biden to meet his climate goals as a global crisis intensifies.
![A masked man holds a plate of chickpea-topped hummus](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2022/06/2022_0629-chickpeas-400x300.jpg)
With Food Prices Up, a “Bean New Deal” May Be Part of the Answer
With beef and poultry prices rising, the government should ease spending on meat and pay farmers to plant beans.