Climate coverage in mainstream media is on the decline.

According to an analysis from earlier this year, coverage decreased by 25% between 2023 and 2024, bringing the total amount across all networks and segments down to just 12 hours and 51 minutes. It’s alarmingly little time, given the urgency of the climate crisis and the impacts we’re already seeing.

And that’s why one newsroom worked tirelessly to keep its coverage up.

At 381 minutes, CBS News accounted for nearly half of 2024’s total climate coverage—and it’s not an exaggeration to say that their climate team was one of the best. They were experts at weaving climate change into politics, science, and consumer stories, allowing them not only to highlight how it impacts different aspects of our lives but also to produce more than 60 climate stories in less than a year.

But now, only one member of that incredible team is left.

Late last month, the pro-Trump CEO of Paramount Skydance moved to completely overhaul CBS News, eliminating morning and evening programming and laying off nearly 100 staffers, including the climate team and race and culture team. It’s the latest upset in a troubling trend—as news outlets are bought up by billionaires and restructured to align with their interests, reporters are losing their ability to tell important stories and speak truth to power.

Which brings us to the big question:

As readers, who you gonna call when you want unbiased, back-based reporting on climate?

Which publications are still committed to hard-hitting, science-based climate coverage?

Luckily, there are more than we can recommend in a single newsletter. Here are our personal favorites:

• Grist brings a comprehensive approach and solutions focus to climate reporting, covering everything from politics and clean energy technologies to environmental justice and conservation. They also recently launched a Local News Initiative to bring more full-time climate reporters to local news outlets.

• Like Grist, Inside Climate News is firmly on the climate beat. They report on a wide variety of issues at the local, national, and international levels, using in-depth reporting and thorough analysis to get to the heart of every story.

• The Guardian doesn’t have a specific climate focus, but keeps news about the crisis front and center on their homepage. They also recently launched The 89 Percent Project, a storytelling initiative that aims to help people around the world understand that most of us want our governments to address the climate crisis.

• AP News continues to deliver unbiased reporting on national and global climate developments. Most recently, they published a powerful retrospective on what we’ve accomplished and what we’ve failed to achieve since joining the Paris Agreement 10 years ago.

• Heatmap AM, a Heatmap newsletter, brings the five most important climate stories to the top of your inbox every day. It’s our favorite way to get the latest on climate—both the good and the bad.

And that’s just five publications. Please support all of them by becoming paying subscribers!

According to Covering Climate Now, there are quite literally hundreds of reporters and newsrooms on our side, working day in and day out to keep their audiences informed about the climate crisis.

Their work is invaluable to advocacy groups like ours. So let’s thank them for fighting the good fight, and urge other publications to follow their lead!