The National Environmental Education Foundation has posted online a series of 15 questions and answers designed to address what the group thinks are top questions on the minds of broadcast meteorologists when it comes to the issue of climate change.
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The National Environmental Education Foundation has posted online a series of 15 questions and answers designed to address what the group thinks are top questions on the minds of broadcast meteorologists when it comes to the issue of climate change.
Timing is everything.
So NBC Universal must not have been too surprised when it found its decision to dismiss a few score staff - including on-camera meteorologists and apparently its entire environmental unit - raised a few eyebrows.
A newly released “essential resource” for journalists, scientists, and educators working with climate change science issues describes journalists/scientists dialogues that took place in a series of nationwide workshops with support from the National Science Foundation.*
Ramping up wind and solar power could provide the nation with promising sources of alternative energy, but the U.S.’s existing electricity grid may not be able to handle it.
A youth movement that grew out of the International Climate Negotiations in Montreal plans a national teach-in on global warming across the U.S. on February 5.
Continued global warming is expected to cause the release of billions of tons of carbon in coming decades as peat bogs dry up, according to a Harvard University study published in the current issue of Nature Geoscience (see article in Nature Geoscience.
Author and teacher Mark Neuzil, of the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, Mn., shows research and reporting skills and also his teaching and history interests in a new Medill School of Journalism paperback, The Environment and the Press: From Adventure Writing to Advocacy.
If you find yourself in New York City over the next 10 months with a few hours to spare and a hankering to immerse yourself into climate change issues, you could do a lot worse than stop by the American Museum of Natural History.
A sweeping new exhibit - “Climate Change: The Threat to Life and a New Energy Future” - could also justify a full two-day detour and total immersion. It’s no doubt best experienced as a see-for-yourself and draw-your-own-conclusions experience. So just do it.
“A huge issue with potentially profound impacts on society and the planet.”
It’s part of the course description for this semester’s Journalism 808 three-credit class at the Michigan State University School of Journalism.
A new online reporter’s “toolkit” from the University of Maryland offers journalists a handy tool for studying and keeping abreast of climate change developments in the U.S. and beyond.