ABSTRACT
The future of environmental journalism is linked to the future of how the press communicates climate change. How society deals with it is likely beyond the scope of journalists or even scientists, unless they can find a magical solution. The terms "climate change" and "global warming" are sometimes used interchangeably to describe a build-up in global temperature produced by human activity. Climate change can also mean global cooling and either increases or decreases in global temperature can be spawned by natural events or forces. Expanding the list to power plants and industrial sites, the investigation found that a third of the toxic air releases in 2014 came from just 100 of the 20,000 reporting to the US Environmental Protection Agency. The key for environmental journalists in coming decades is to understand the science, find the key sources and then search for the stories that will have the greatest impact in understanding what is happening around the globe.
