As news organizations struggle with funding, local publications disappear, and misleading information spreads heavily on social media platforms, it is harder than ever to figure out where to get trustworthy and timely information.
The monthly collection of articles collected by Yale University’s Climate Connect focuses on one topic, such as insurance or bionics. For more frequent multi-themed information sent directly to your email inbox, you can sign up for the following excellent climate newsletter. We are biased, but we also think Yale's climate connectivity communication is very good.
From the Climate Youth Organization: All but the last two are nonprofits, all of which are free.
- Scientific Scheduling, from the Anthropocene Journal. “Hand-made choices from the most compelling research around the world, nowhere else.” A good source of optimism about human creativity. weekly.
- Canary Media. “Covering the transition to clean energy and solutions to climate crisis.” Their own top-notch news, effectively blending (sometimes technical) information with sober everyday language. Daily and weekly dispatch, there are also regional options.
- Daily climate. The Environmental Health Science Project published since 2003 is probably the longest summary of climate change news, and perhaps the best first-time newsletter.
- Grist. Grist started in 1999 as a collector of climate stories and now writes his own journalism (usually with partners). There are several other sources on the homepage; several newsletters focus on their own extensive work.
- Internal climate news. Their own reports are extensive and high-quality. ICN weekly and internal clean energy is one of their fascinating newsletters.
- Energy Mixed Weekend. Canadians, mainly concentrated in Canada. Original report and “in functional terms, an aggregator and rewrite the center point of the table – an avalanche of climate news.”
- Debrief is a comprehensive weekly collection of British climate news agency Carbonbrief. Globally, but from a UK perspective.
Climate newsletter for larger publications, ordered in an easy-to-access way.
Note: PAYWALL rule changes, so this information – the best information available online now – may not be kept up to date.
- Imagine a newsletter. The climate communications for the UK dialogue are “weekly integrated insights on climate change solutions”. Free. Register here.
- Be down to earth from guardian. Free weekly newsletter; no salary to read articles on the website, but with some restrictions on the app. For this senior British newspaper, climate change has been a long-term focus.
- From the Los Angeles Times, Sammy Roth's boiling point. Twice a week, California-centric, with registered readers available for free. The columns with many links are not all related to this newspaper. Non-subscribers can read five posts per month in the mobile app, or you can sign up and read “Every free post for 7 days per volume each time”. Access information here.
- Michael J. Coren's climate coach for The Washington Post. Registered readers are provided free of charge every week. This column provides solid research and friendly tone on substantive climate actions in the daily lives of ordinary people. (Colon has been before parental leave until April; meanwhile, the newsletter just collects the latest climate stories from newspapers.) Non-subscribers can read “limited monthly articles” for free; many public libraries offer access, and Amazon Prime members can subscribe to the paper at a discount. The post has been publishing strong climate change news.
- The New York Times' climate is moving forward. This newsletter is only available to subscribers, twice a week. (But non-subscribers can read 20 free articles per month, while some public libraries provide access). Like the Washington Post, the Times has excellent climate coverage.
Single-person author blogs and newsletters will be the focus of future collections.
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