Overview: The photo-sharing social media site Instagram uses hashtags to create on-the-fly collections of images, such as with #COP21 for the Paris climate talks.
How to Use This Resource: Scan the page to review and share from a collection of tens of thousands of images from the Paris summit. Use the search function to check for other Paris or climate-related hashtags.
Adaptation News
Overview: The Daily Climate is an independent media organization working to increase public understanding of climate change.
How to Use This Resource: This website curates articles on climate change adaptation, with a focus on international policies, from the world’s top news sources and makes them readily accessible in one location.
CityLab: Climate Change
Overview: The Atlantic is one of the top English-Language newspapers in the world and is based in Washington D.C. It provides international cultural commentary with a moderate perspective.
How to Use This Resource: This newsletter uses data analysis and visual storytelling to report on innovation in cities worldwide. Its focus is at the nexus of municipal policy and new technology.
Climate Change News Updates
Overview: The Ecologist publishes news on climate change and its impacts on agriculture, health, and the energy sector.
How to Use This Resource: The climate change coverage from The Ecologist combines in-depth reporting with fascinating stories of adaptation and survival.
Climate Confidential
Overview: Climate Confidential is an independent news source covering environment and technology. Funded by readers, its stories have appeared in The Atlantic and Scientific American.
How to Use This Resource: Find narrative-driven stories about technological innovation in the fight against climate change, drought and public health concerns.
Climate Desk
Overview: The Climate Desk is a journalistic collaboration dedicated to exploring the impacts of a changing climate, including adaptation. The partners are The Atlantic, CityLab, Grist, The Guardian, The Huffington Post, Medium, Mother Jones, The New Republic, Newsweek, Slate, and Wired.
How to Use This Resource: The site combines the latest climate-related stories from Climate Desk’s partners, as well as features from its own staff.
Climate News Coverage
Overview: Mashable is a global media company that caters to the digital generation. It reports 45 million monthly unique visitors and 25 million social followers.
How to Use This Resource: Mashable’s climate coverage is led by Science Editor Andrew Freedman, one of the most prolific climate reporters in the United States. He covers breaking climate news, writes long-form analyses, and digests complex data on climate change. He publishes on a daily basis.
ClimateWire
Overview: Environment & Energy Publishing provides coverage of environmental and energy policy and markets through five daily online publications that focus on Washington policy and politics, as well as national and global news.
How to Use This Resource: ClimateWire covers news on the politics and business of climate adaptation in the United States and abroad.
Delaware Braces for Climate Change
Overview: The News Journal covers breaking news in the state of Delaware.
How to Use This Resource: This article covers the extent of Delaware’s plans to improve their flood response policy, fortify the coastline’s infrastructure, and invest in a more resilient public transportation system.
Extreme Weather Research
Overview: Climate Central is an independent organization of scientists and journalists researching and reporting climate change in the United States.
How to Use This Resource: Climate Central scientists survey and conduct research on climate change, then partner with journalists to report their findings. The result is this database of scientific research covering topics such as energy, sea level rise, wildfires and drought.
Hurricane Katrina News Updates
Overview: Nola.com is a breaking news website that covers New Orleans in partnership with the Times-Picayune.
How to Use This Resource: Nola.com offers extensive news coverage of New Orleans’ rehabilitation after it was ravaged by Hurricane Katrina.
Inside the Paris Climate Talks
Overview: Twitter collects tweets about major developing news events, such as the Paris climate summit, in a feature called Twitter Moments.
How to Use This Resource: Reporters can view, share and embed in their own sites these top “moments” from COP21, as selected by Twitter. Moments are also useful to identify key Twitter accounts to follow from the event.
Living on Earth
Overview: Living on Earth with Steve Curwood is a weekly environmental news and information program distributed by the Minneapolis-based Public Radio International.
How to Use This Resource: Living on Earth provides a wide range of environmental news, and frequently focuses on climate change (the site’s search function yields many reports). Special climate change features look at the changing language of climate, climate change and New York’s future, and Louisiana storm protection.
National Energy Policy News
Overview: InsideClimate News is a Pulitzer prize-winning news organization that covers clean energy and the how climate adaptation law, policy and public opinion are shaped.
How to Use This Resource: Journalists will find in-depth reporting at the nexus of energy policy and climate change adaption in the United States.
Next City: Inspiring Better Cities
Overview: Next City is a nonprofit that advocates for environmental change in cities through journalism and events around the world.
How to Use This Resource: This newsletter publishes daily articles on breaking climate news happening in cities across the globe.
Risk and Adaptation News Database
Overview: Carbon Brief is a United Kingdom-based website that covers developments in climate science and policy.
How to Use This Resource: Journalists will find data-driven articles enhanced with graphics on a wide range of topics, such as science, energy, policy, and breaking climate news.
Special Report: Paris Climate Talks
Overview: Environment & Energy Publishing (E&E) provides coverage of environmental and energy policy and markets through five daily online publications that focus on Washington policy and politics, as well as national and global news.
How to Use This Resource: E&E’s coverage of the Paris climate talks provides multiple reports daily, as well as a Paris Notebook, and video briefings. Coverage of climate change can also be found in a special series, “Greater Expectations.”
States at Risk: America’s Preparedness Report Card
Overview: Climate Central is an independent organization of scientists and journalists researching and reporting climate change in the United States.
How to Use This Resource: This interactive report identifies the major climate threats facing the U.S – flooding, extreme heat, drought, and wildfire – and for each state provides a risk assessment score based on the extremity of weather and adaptive actions in place.
States of Change: Stories of Climate Change from Close to Home
Overview: Climate Central is an independent organization of scientists and journalists researching and reporting climate change in the United States.
How to Use This Resource: Journalists can use an interactive map to navigate a multimedia collection of stories, research, and data about climate change on a local level, searchable by region, topic or media within the United States.
Superstorm Sandy News, Articles, and Research
Overview: City Limits is a nonprofit news source for investigative journalism on the inner workings of New York City.
How to Use This Resource: Hurricane Sandy plays a key role in the continuing conversation on climate adaptation. This archive of the storm’s news coverage is a valuable resource for journalists to track its impact on the local level in New York City.
Surging Seas: Sea Level Rise Analysis
Overview: Climate Central is an independent organization of scientists and journalists researching and reporting climate change primarily in the United States.
How to Use This Resource: This set of interactive tools and maps provides accurate sea level rise and coastal flood hazard data down to the neighborhood scale in the United States, as well as globally.
The Summit – Coverage of the 2015 Paris Climate Talks
Overview: The Christian Science Monitor is an international news organization based in Boston that regularly covers climate change in the United States and abroad.
How to Use This Resource: This site collects all coverage of the 2015 Paris Conference from the news site.
Two Years after Superstorm Sandy: Exploring Resilience in Twelve Neighborhoods
Overview: The Associated Press-National Opinion Research Center for Public Affairs Research is a joint collaboration between the University of Chicago and the AP to creative unbiased journalism that is rigorously researched.
How to Use This Resource: Journalists will find a report on Hurricane Sandy recovery that focuses on the critical role social factors play in community resilience.
Bloomberg’s Hidden Legacy: Climate Change and the Future of New York City
Overview: Inside Climate News is a Pulitzer prize-winning, nonprofit news organization that covers clean energy, carbon energy, nuclear energy and environmental science.
How to Use This Resource: Mayor Bloomberg’s initiatives to fortify New York City after Hurricane Sandy have since become a model for urban adaptation across the globe. This book details those initiatives.
Rising Seas
Overview: National Geographic Magazine is the official magazine of the National Geographic Society in Washington D.C. It covers issues pertaining to geography, history and world culture.
How to Use This Resource: In this multimedia project by National Geographic, reporter Tim Folger examines the process of deciding what is worth protecting on our nation’s coastline and what must be abandoned. His reporting is complemented by several valuable datasets on rising sea levels.