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Screengrab of the Digital Safehouse platform. IN RESPONSE to the continued abuse of Philippine media, a group launched on December 10 an online safety p

“This project is being launched to the public in light of events that have been plaguing the country’s news industry for the last five years: journalist killings, arrests, red-tagging, filing of libel charges, to name a few.”

Summertime is here and so is our Summer Package. This years installment includes trends related to summer average and night temperatures as well as the number of days with extreme heat.

KEY CONCEPTS Wind energy is an important tool needed to combat climate change. The U.S. has seen dramatic growth in wind electricity generation with an increase from 6 billion kilowatt hours (kWh) in 2000 to about 338 billion kWh in 2020.  Research from Net Zero America (NZA) identified various pathways which would lower U.S. emissions to net zero by 2050. Findings show that states like Texas, Missouri, Iowa, Illinois, and Nebraska could potentially lead in total onshore wind capacity and jobs...

/ Corrie MacLaggan will take over in June as statewide managing editor for The Texas Newsroom, a public radio journalism collaboration. The Austin native will take the helm of The Texas Newsroom, a public radio journalism collaboration that includes NPR, KERA in North Texas, Houston Public Media, KUT in Austin, Texas Public Radio in San Antonio and other stations across the state. Corrie MacLaggan, managing editor of the pioneering digital news site The Texas Tribune, will become the new statew...

By Great Lakes Echo Great Lakes Echo has joined a nationwide collaborative to provide better and more local reporting of climate change. The Local Media Association selected the 12-year-old regional news service as one of 22 leading outlets in the Covering Climate Collaborative. Echo is a project of Michigan State University’s Knight Center for Environmental Journalism. It is one of two members of the collaborative where university students are the key journalists. “Echo is founded on the i...

NEW: Climate Central’s WeatherPower tool now has Spanish-language graphics available! Renewable energy projects and public interest in them are both on the rise. WeatherPower shows your audience how much wind and solar energy is already being generated in their communities.  To brush up on your knowledge of wind and solar energy, we’ve added a ‘Wind and Solar Power 101’ guide, which provides an overview of how these technologies work and why they matter. Solutions Journalism Network jo...

KEY CONCEPTS Solar power has expanded dramatically in recent years, becoming the leading technology installed for new power generation around the world. In 2019, it accounted for 45% of global capacity added. Last year, solar power became the cheapest source of electricity in many parts of the world, outcompeting fossil fuels like coal and natural gas.  A new Solutions Brief by Climate Central explains the growth of solar and dives into projections of how much more solar is needed to reach net...

comments This article was co-produced with Press Watch, an independent site that monitors and critiques American political coverage. Please consider supporting Press Watch by making a donation. In the vacuum left behind by Donald Trump, the ringleaders of the right-wing media ecosystem are finding new and old ways to keep stoking white hysteria. Theyve already found one winner: reprising the toxic, racist, anti-immigrant rhetoric that brought Trump to power in the first place, but which had ebb...