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Mark Hertsgaard

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Indexed articles, last 90 days
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Oct 1, 2026
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Jul 23, 2026

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  1. Article · Oct 1, 2026 · Mark Hertsgaard

    Germany and California Make Up an Environmental Superpower (opens the original)

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    The world’s third- and fourth-largest economies have pledged to environmental protections. Will others follow suit? The biggest news during last week’s Climate Week NYC came not from the US but from Germany, where the government of the world’s third-largest economy committed to phasing out fossil fuels by 2045. It was the first time Germany has explicitly made such a promise, Fiona Harvey noted in The Guardian. Germany’s previous pledges, Harvey added, “were only for ‘carbon neutrality.’” Carbon

  2. Article · Sep 25, 2026 · Mark Hertsgaard

    Gavin Newsom Comments on Climate (opens the original)

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    On the sidelines of the UN General Assembly meeting and New York Climate Week, the California governor called AOC “the real damn deal.” It’s a mistake for Democratic politicians not to talk about climate change, and the reason they don’t is “because they don’t know how to talk about it,” California Governor Gavin Newsom said Wednesday in an interview with The Guardian and the global journalism collaboration Covering Climate Now. Speaking on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly meeting and Ne

  3. Article · Sep 12, 2026 · Mark Hertsgaard

    The Tech Bros’ War on Climate Action (opens the original)

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    We live in a time, journalist Amy Westervelt laments in her new book, Brought To You By, when “millions of people have been convinced that it is patriotic to be antidemocracy [and] that doctors are not to be trusted but podcasters are.” In theory, democracy calls for citizens to inform themselves and contending points of view to be fairly debated. If that ideal of democracy were a reality today, government policies on climate change (and many other issues) would be very different, given that 80

  4. Article · Sep 7, 2026 · Mark Hertsgaard

    Is Nepal a turning point in climate coverage? | The Express Tribune (opens the original)

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    More news outlets need to connect the latest disaster to global warming It’s been slow coming, but news coverage of climate change may at last be turning a corner. For years, reporting on climate-related disasters — the super-storm Hurricane Helene that blasted the southeastern US in 2024, the mega-fires that torched Los Angeles in 2025, the record heat that has scorched Europe and Asia in 2026 — rarely mentioned the words “climate change,” despite overwhelming scientific evidence linking such e

  5. Article · Sep 4, 2026 · Mark Hertsgaard

    Is Nepal a Turning Point in Climate Coverage? (opens the original)

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    It’s been slow coming, but news coverage of climate change may at last be turning a corner. For years, reporting on climate-related disasters—the superstorm Hurricane Helene that blasted the Southeastern U.S. in 2024, the mega-fires that torched Los Angeles in 2025, the record heat that has scorched Europe and Asia in 2026—rarely mentioned the words “climate change,” despite overwhelming scientific evidence linking such extreme events to human-caused global heating. This week, however, even form

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