"Climate Deniers Try to 'Fact Check' Real Reporting"
"A prominent group of deniers with a history of dark money benefactors is now trying to claim media is biased, thanks to new funding."
Source: Earther, 01/11/2023
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Winning Over Editors and Others with Award Winners’ Multimedia Nuggets
If you’re looking to engage key constituencies for your journalism — whether editors, sources, students or people who have been marginalized — a new set of short videos from award-winning journalists (like KESQ's Angela Chen, at left) can serve as a helpful resource. Inside Story has a roadmap of how to make smart use of these video nuggets to, for instance, convince newsroom powerbrokers to give you more time and support for ambitious stories.
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NASA Set To Ditch Satellite-Based Environmental Data Source
Instrumentation on the International Space Station that gathers 3-D images of forest canopies and other environmental data is scheduled to soon be junked. But the move is provoking an outcry from scientists and pushback from some politicians. Reporter’s Toolbox examines what the Global Ecosystem Dynamics Investigation does and how journalists might make use of it, while it lasts.
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"The Last 8 Years Were the Hottest on Record"
"The world remained firmly in warming’s grip last year, with extreme summer temperatures in Europe, China and elsewhere contributing to 2022 being the fifth-hottest year on record, European climate researchers said on Tuesday."
Source: NYTimes, 01/10/2023
"Farewell To The Senate’s Biggest Climate Denier"
"Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.) leaves behind a legacy of climate disinformation, and a small army of pro-industry contrarians."
Source: HuffPost, 01/05/2023
"How Can Coral Reefs Deal With Climate Change? Get Better Roommates"
"Time is running out for coral reefs as the climate gets hotter. So scientists are searching the globe for corals that are better at enduring heat."
Source: NPR, 01/02/2023
"‘Space Hurricanes’ Swirling Over The Earth Surprise Scientists"
"Cyclone-like auroras near the North Pole, dubbed space hurricanes, can transfer large amounts of energy from the sun to Earth’s upper atmosphere".
Source: Washington Post, 12/16/2022
"#ClimateScam: Denialism Claims Flooding Twitter Have Scientists Worried"
"Twitter has proved a cherished forum for climate scientists to share research, as well as for activists seeking to rally action to halt oil pipelines or decry politicians’ failure to cut pollution. But many are now fleeing Twitter due to a surge in climate misinformation, spam and even threats that have upended their relationship with the platform."
Source: Guardian, 12/15/2022
"NASA To Conduct First Global Water Survey From Space"
"A NASA-led international satellite mission was set for blastoff from Southern California early on Thursday on a major Earth science project to conduct a comprehensive survey of the world's oceans, lakes and rivers for the first time."
Source: Reuters, 12/14/2022
Disinformation Presents New Challenges to Environmental Journalists
An explosion of deliberately misleading information has hit the environmental journalism beat, argues the new Backgrounder. A look at how today’s untruth industry has evolved from that of the past, particularly in the area of climate change, and how reporters have now turned it into its own specialty coverage area. Plus, seven tips on what you can do to handle disinformation on your beat.
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