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Climate Coverage Falls As Risks Rise
Coverage from Davis Vanguard, Earth.Org, and others
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Executive Summary
Global climate news coverage fell in 2025 even as emissions and warming hit records and public concern stayed high
- Global climate-change coverage fell 14 percent in 2025 from 2024 and 38 percent from the 2021 peak
- 2025 coverage ranked 10th in 22 years of MeCCO tracking and set no monthly regional records
- Atmospheric CO2 reached the highest level on record while energy-related CO2 emissions rose to 37.8 Gt in 2024
- Reuters Institute data found climate news use falling in several countries but interest remained high and stable in most
- About half of respondents trust news media on climate, while trust in scientists is higher and trust in politicians is low
- Yale and George Mason found 72 percent of Americans think climate change is happening and 64 percent are worried
- Media exposure to climate change in the US fell to 17 percent weekly in the fall 2025 survey
Quick Facts
- What: Climate coverage declined while concern and emissions stayed high
- Where: Worldwide with notable declines in the US Europe and North America
- Why: Political turmoil competing news and reduced newsroom attention crowded out coverage
- Who: Global news outlets survey respondents and climate researchers
- When: During 2025 with survey data reported in fall 2025
Coverage Timeline: 140 Days
Featured Article
United States adults show high concern for climate change even as media coverage declines, according to fall 2025 survey.
Additional Articles
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The Trump administration moved in the late 2010s to revoke the Environmental Protection Agency’s greenhouse gas endangerment finding, reshaping US climate authority and international engagement.
Earth.Org in 2026 reported that global news outlets reduced climate-change coverage in 2025 despite record emissions and consistent audience interest, without mentioning heat pumps.
Yale Project on Climate Change Communication and George Mason University Center for Climate Change Communication report in Fall 2025 that 72 percent of US adults believe global warming is happening.
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In the United States, news organizations have reduced climate coverage since 2021, lowering weekly public exposure and complicating climate policy momentum.
US media coverage of climate change has declined since 2021 in the United States due to competing news priorities.
Reuters Institute survey finds climate information trust split among media, scientists, and politicians in the 2020s.