"Carbon Brief has compiled its annual list of the 25 most talked-about climate-related studies of the past year."
https://www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-the-climate-papers-most-featured-in-the-media-in-2025/
This is great.
AND I would like to see a list of journal articles which needed more media attention.
"Ongoing political economic headwinds, and newsroom consolidation and reductions have contributed to this diminished coverage. Moreover, there is finite news space for competing stories, with the Trump administration flooding the public sphere with news stories across several domains.
Journalists may be hesitant to connect the dots between ecological and meteorological events like wildfires, and a changing climate due to the ongoing politicization of climate science."
https://www.colorado.edu/today/2026/02/16/climate-change-media-coverage-fell-14-2025
The planet is overheating. Why is the news looking away?
"Since 2021, global media coverage of climate change has dropped 38 percent. Blame wars, political chaos, and Jeffrey Epstein."
https://grist.org/language/global-heating-climate-news-drought-chaos/
It's DYI climate communication now.
Talk about climate change.
Because silence kills.
Here is one possibility: Journalists don't use the terms "climate change" or "global warming" much any more.
The way scientists don't.
"Across federal agencies and academic institutions, scientists are avoiding words they once used without hesitation.
Trent Ford, the state climatologist for Illinois, says he’s started using terms like “weather extremes” and “weather variability” in framing his proposals for grants."
https://grist.org/language/climate-federal-research-grants-national-science-foundation/
"CBS News is laying off national environmental correspondent David Schechter, reportedly leaving no one at the network dedicated to covering climate change.
CBS also cut another correspondent, Dave Malkoff, a national correspondent whose work included climate and environmental reporting across the network’s platforms."
https://www.mediamatters.org/broadcast-networks/cbs-axed-its-last-climate-reporting-pillar
CBS News is laying off national environmental correspondent David Schechter, reportedly leaving no one at the network dedicated to covering climate change. That means that when CBS does cover the issue, the reporting will be more likely to omit scientific context and elevate misleading or contrarian framing, a shift already visible in the network's limited coverage so far in 2026.
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