climate change
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A scientist’s opinion: interview with Anna Davies on climate change and education systems
Climate change and education systems: What role can education systems play in combating the climate crisis? Interview with Anna Davies, Professor of Geography and Director of the Environmental Governance Research Group at Trinity College Dublin. How do you rate the education systems in Europe in... -
How much has digital news consumption affected the public perception of climate change?
Digital news consumption has been overtaking traditional news consumption in the past decade. Academics are researching the effect this has on the public perception of climate change.
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A scientist’s opinion: interview with Craig T. Robertson on the public perception of climate change in relation to news consumption
Dr Craig T. Robertson is a postdoctoral research fellow at the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism. To what extent do you believe that climate change coverage in digital media is different compared to traditional media? Craig T. Robertson: Digital media opened the opportunity for a lot... -
A scientist’s opinion: interview with Dr Claudio Morana on the public perception of climate change in relation to news consumption
Dr Claudio Morana is Professor of Economics at the University of Milano-Bicocca and Director of the university’s Center for European Studies (CefES). How important are climate activism and its coverage in digital media for environmental awareness? Claudio Morana: When politicisation of climate... -
Sander van der Linden on how psychological inoculation protects against false news
Sander van der Linden, Ph.D., is Professor of Social Psychology in Society and Director of the Cambridge Social Decision-Making Lab in the Department of Psychology at the University of Cambridge. Professor van der Linden, we have seen many attempts to debunk climate and health disinformation. How... -
Journalism and climate change: the urgent need to make complex topics accessible
The European Science-Media Hub (ESMH) organized its second annual summer school in Brussels to give journalists the chance to reflect on how they cover climate change. The goal is to make this critical news more accessible to the public. Journalists face unique challenges when reporting on this topic.... -
Reporting on climate change, a complex task: challenges and solutions
During the three days of the ESMH Summer School "Journalism and climate change: how to tell complex stories", journalists from different countries had a chance to learn about climate change reporting, its complexity and its main issues, but - above all - about possible solutions. It all started... -
Prof. Tom Crowther: ‘Microbial soil life is crucial for climate regulation’
Ecologist Prof. Tom Crowther of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zürich and co-chair of the advisory board of the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration, speaks about climate change mapping and the role of soil biodiversity. As a global ecosystem scientist, you founded the Restor platform,...