Our Best Reporting of 2020 Also this week: Women on the front lines of climate activism Climate Fwd: newsletter. The New York Times climate team emails readers once a week with stories and insights about climate change. Image Credit...Clockwise from top left, KC Nwakalor for The New York Times; Max Whittaker for The New York Times; Brian L. Frank for The New York Times; NASA/OIB/Jeremy Harbeck. By The New York Times It’s been a year of crises: a pandemic, economic turmoil, social upheaval. And running through it all, there was climate change. Our 2020 climate coverage started with huge wildfires burning the coast of Australia, which had just marked its hottest, driest year on record. It was a running start. And the news never seemed to slow down.