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Knight Science Journalism @ MIT @ksjatmit.bsky.social · 6d

"...a journalist looking at data in search of a story has many advantages."
@chriscmooney.bsky.social, 2010 KSJ fellow and Pulitzer Prize-winning climate reporter, shares on his Substack how he digs through data to find narrative.

The powerful connection between data and story

Part one of a two part essay on realizing the full potential of data journalism.

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Chris Mooney @chriscmooney.bsky.social · 8d

My latest at Substack: If you understand how to work with data, it actually strengthens, in myriad ways, your ability to find and tell compelling journalistic stories
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The powerful connection between data and story

Part one of a two part essay on realizing the full potential of data journalism.

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CIRES @cires.colorado.edu · 20d

US to retire its only icebreaker, stranding polar research - new article posted today by @cuboulder. The icebreaker is critical for researchers who study the changes on the edges of Antarctic glaciers and how they relate to climate change and sea level rise. buff.ly/oMAElHY #antarctica #glaciers

A ship with a red hull used for icebreaking in the Arctic. Blue sea with icebergs, glaciers, and mountains.

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Chris Mooney @chriscmooney.bsky.social · Sep 5

Next week, we’ll be learning about August 2025’s global temperatures. Stand by.

Again, all my charts are at the chart archive on Substack, here:
reportearth.substack.com/p/reporteart...

ReportEarth chart archive

Since I began this Substack in March, I've been making lots of charts. Now they can all live in one place.

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Chris Mooney @chriscmooney.bsky.social · Sep 5

Here’s a chart that combines together newspaper jobs with other print publishing sectors, also now updated (though the most recent data are just a tiny stretch at the end)

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Chris Mooney @chriscmooney.bsky.social · Sep 5

And, newspaper jobs! Job levels are looking really flat in 2025. I continue to wonder if this will be the year where finally, we don’t see a significant loss. That would be unusual.

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Chris Mooney @chriscmooney.bsky.social · Sep 5

We also have new data on Arctic sea ice. It looks like August was the 7th lowest extent on record.

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Chris Mooney @chriscmooney.bsky.social · Sep 5

And here's the U.S., where the decline is not quite so sharp, and there was a recent uptick in July, likely tied to coverage of the Texas floods

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Chris Mooney @chriscmooney.bsky.social · Sep 5

The change in the UK is particularly striking.

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Chris Mooney @chriscmooney.bsky.social · Sep 5

First, what’s new: I took a look at climate change coverage around the world, and it shows an apparent downturn since the 2021 Glasgow COP in Western countries. Specifically, in Europe, North America, and Oceania. More discussion here
reportearth.substack.com/p/the-growin...

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Chris Mooney @chriscmooney.bsky.social · Sep 5

It’s the beginning of the month, so I’ve got lots of newly updated charts. As well as a few new ones. They're all at the Chart Archive here, but here's a quick runthrough...
reportearth.substack.com/p/reporteart...

ReportEarth chart archive

Since I began this Substack in March, I've been making lots of charts. Now they can all live in one place.

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Zack Labe @zacklabe.com · Aug 19

"It’s getting hotter, longer, more humid and more dangerous. Yet averages elide a complex reality: The country’s experience of hotter summers — and thus one of the most visceral aspects of climate change itself — is fractured along geographic lines."

More on the Central U.S. warming hole ⬇️

The strange divide in how Americans experience summer temperatures | CNN

Average temperatures elide a complex reality: The country’s experience of hotter summers — and thus one of the most visceral aspects of climate change itself — is fractured along geographic lines.

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Naema Ahmed @naemas.bsky.social · Aug 25

The hottest stretch of the year is expanding beyond any calendar definition of summer. See how much longer summer temperatures last where you live wapo.st/4mtyZmx

Is summer getting longer where you live? See how temperatures changed.

The hottest stretch of the year is expanding beyond any calendar definition of summer. See what regions are experiencing the biggest change.

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UVA Environmental Institute @uvaenvironment.bsky.social · Aug 26

On @cnn.com , Practitioner Fellow @chriscmooney.bsky.social writes about about the warming hole:
"Summer is behaving very erratically as the country warms, with large changes in some regions, especially the West, and very muted ones in the central and southeast US."
www.cnn.com/2025/08/19/c...

The strange divide in how Americans experience summer temperatures | CNN

Average temperatures elide a complex reality: The country’s experience of hotter summers — and thus one of the most visceral aspects of climate change itself — is fractured along geographic lines.

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Guardian Environment @environment.theguardian.com · Aug 23

Alaska was lucky to avoid disaster after a landslide and tsunami. What about next time?

The close call in Tracy Arm 50 miles south of Juneau on 10 August is the latest sign that as glaciers melt, risks may rise

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Mark Parrington @mparrington.bsky.social · Aug 2

Total estimated Canada #wildfire emissions to end July already marking 2025 as 3rd most extreme year in #CopernicusAtmosphere GFAS dataset. Most extreme year for Saskatchewan & Manitoba with no sign of the number of fires reducing across the country. Read our @copernicusecmwf.bsky.social summary ⬇️

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Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · Jul 22

“I’m already at risk of losing my job, and I’d rather speak out and try to save something at NASA, rather than just hide under my desk until I get laid off." NASA employees sign public letter protesting cuts. Story by @kchang.bsky.social Gift link: nyti.ms/45fBYca

Hundreds of NASA Employees Condemn Trump Administration Cuts in Public Letter

The signatories of the “Voyager Declaration” warned the space agency’s leadership about the consequences of major budget cuts that would halt many science missions.

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Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · Jul 19

E.P.A. Says It Will Eliminate Its Scientific Research Arm nyti.ms/46jxy50 3/4

E.P.A. Says It Will Eliminate Its Scientific Research Arm

The decision comes after a Supreme Court ruling allowing the Trump administration to slash the federal work force and dismantle agencies.

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Phil Plait @philplait.bsky.social · Jul 14

In 2023, astronomers detected a cosmic blast so powerful it released more energy than ALL THE STARS IN THE UNIVERSE COMBINED. The cause: two black holes colliding and merging… which is a problem, because they were way bigger than we thought possible.

badastronomy.beehiiv.com/p/the-bigges...

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The biggest black hole merger ever detected so far rocked the Universe

The gravitational waves they emitted were fiercely powerful, but where did the black holes come from?

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Mark Parrington @mparrington.bsky.social · Jul 14

Total estimated emissions from Canadian #wildfires continue to increase rapidly with 2025 already 3rd highest year, after 2023 & 2024, as of 13 July. #CopernicusAtmosphere GFAS data based on MODIS🛰️ active fire obs ads.atmosphere.copernicus.eu/datasets/cam... @copernicusecmwf.bsky.social @ecmwf.int

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Chris Mooney @chriscmooney.bsky.social · Jul 8

5/ (This graphic first appeared as part of this Substack post reportearth.substack.com/p/what-clima...)

What climate journalism means heading into a 1.5 C world

Five charts and fifty-five opinions about the state of the field, and where it is going.

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Chris Mooney @chriscmooney.bsky.social · Jul 8

4/ In any event, whatever's going on, jobs so far in 2025 appear static to slightly down (though it's early yet in the year, this could easily change).

Planning to keep watching these monthly, and wondering if anything can halt the ongoing decline of newspapers in the U.S.

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Chris Mooney @chriscmooney.bsky.social · Jul 8

3/ (Although the recent Reuters Institute report finds no "Trump bump" for traditional news in 2025. reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/digital-news...)

Overview and key findings of the 2025 Digital News Report

This year’s report comes at a time of deep political and economic uncertainty, changing geo-political alliances, not to mention climate breakdown and continuing destructive conflicts around the world....

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Chris Mooney @chriscmooney.bsky.social · Jul 8

2/ Driven by the Trump administration, there’s an enormous volume of news in the current environment. I would assume that newspapers, especially national ones, are seeing more traffic to their websites.

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Chris Mooney @chriscmooney.bsky.social · Jul 8

1/ I’ve updated my newspaper jobs graphic with the latest data from the BLS.

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