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Billed as “a guide to incorporating climate into any storyline or genre,” the Playbook for Screenwriting in the Age of Climate Change is meant to “provide screenwriters, industry executives, actors, and creatives with a groundbreaking and robust resource to help illustrate ways in which climate can be weaved into TV…

“It is willful blindness and it is going to kill us.” That’s how climate activist Miranda Whelehan described the stance of presenters like those on Good Morning Britain who, this week, literally refused to face the facts about climate change she placed before them. Her interview with the show’s Richard Madeley and…

UPDATED: Late Monday, California Governor Gavin Newsom’s office announced that the leader of the Golden State would, the following day, “participate in a fireside chat at the 2021 California Economic Summit sponsored by California Forward.” The appearance’s ostensible aim is “highlighting the state's ongoing recovery…

As Democratic leadership tries to unite its progressive and moderate wings, a group of 80-plus artists, celebrities and activists called on the leaders of Google, Disney, Amazon, Fox, Facebook and more to urge Congress to support President Biden’s Biden's Build Back Better plan. Boldfaced signatories to the group…

Lester Holt will anchor NBC Nightly News on Monday from Houston as the network covers the climate crisis with a series of reports throughout the week, dubbed “climate challenge.” Holt will interview Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner in the wake of the brutal storms and deep freeze the paralyzed parts of the city earlier…

CBS News is launching a series called Eye on Earth: Our Planet in Peril, tied to Earth Day and focusing on climate change and potential solutions. The series will launch on Monday across the network’s platforms, led by senior national and environmental correspondent Ben Tracy, senior foreign correspondent Mark…

UPDATED with latest: After a week of very little progress, firefighters gained real ground on Tuesday night against what has become the third-largest fire ever recorded in Los Angeles. The Bobcat Fire moderated overnight allowing crews to complete defensive firing operations from Highway 2 to Mt. Wilson, creating a…

Toward the end of his news briefing on the state of California’s multiple emergencies, California Governor Gavin Newsom was challenged about the changing nature of his rhetoric on Donald Trump’s policies. A reporter from the San Francisco Chronicle highlighted the fact that the governor sent out toughly-worded…

Joe Biden went on offense in advance of Donald Trump’s visit to California on Monday, as the Democratic nominee blasted the president as a “climate arsonist” who is ignoring science and how it relates to extreme wildfires out west and natural disasters elsewhere. “If you give a climate arsonist four more years in the…

Activist and Academy-Award Winner Robert Redford and his son James Redford wrote a scathing opinion piece for NBC calling out “the cost of failed leadership” under President Trump. “As the pandemic began its global march,” they write, “President Donald Trump failed to act quickly and decisively, likely increasing its…

Raphael Coleman, a former child actor who became a climate change activist, has died. He was 25. Coleman passed away Friday, his mother and stepfather shared in separate social media posts over the weekend. “Rest in peace my beloved son Raphael Coleman, aka Iggy Fox. He died doing what he loved, working for the…

President Donald Trump took to Twitter to take a swipe at 16-year-old climate activist Greta Thunberg after she was named Time‘s Person of the Year. “So ridiculous. Greta must work on her Anger Management problem, then go to a good old fashioned movie with a friend! Chill Greta, Chill!” Trump wrote. So ridiculous…