Climate communication and climate journalism

“As a child, I was fascinated by the layers you see in some mountains. To me, they looked like the pages of a giant book – and I asked my mother how mountains formed surrounding her home village and Bogotá came about. She couldn’t tell me, so I decided to find out for myself.” That’s how...

Human beings are responsible for climate change. According to international polls, more and more people believe this. But are their beliefs based on scientific explanations? The latter show almost unanimously: humans in certain regions are producing too much greenhouse gas, due to their...

Shepherds need water and grazing land for their animals. In arid regions they constantly have to move to new locations because the grazing areas shift over the course of the year. That means that mobility is essential to their livelihood. But what happens when climate change worsens water...

As the coronavirus pandemic continues, science is in demand. No political decisions are made without input from epidemiologists and virologists. Some people can’t believe their eyes. Why aren’t experts listened to when it comes to other topics? Despite the fact that climate researchers have...

To date, climate protection can only report limited successes. Despite the warnings of the scientific community, climate objectives are not being reached, and decisions are being delayed. As the Fridays for Future demonstrations held around the globe show, something has gone very wrong.

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The 2015 Paris Climate Conference was accompanied by extensive media coverage. Though the content managed to reach much of Germany’s populace, it did little to change their attitudes. This was a main finding of a study just released in the journal Nature Climate Change by Professor Michael...