May media coverage of climate change or global warming in newspapers around the globe continued to rebound, rising 8% from April 2026. This follows a 4% rise in April compared to March 2026. That said, coverage in 2026 remains lower. Comparing the first five months of 2026 to the first five months of 2025, coverage has fallen 35%. Levels of coverage in May 2026 was 28% lower than in May 2025. International wire coverage - The Associated Press, Agence France Presse, The Canadian Press, and United Press International (UPI) – increased 3% from April 2026 but remained 32% lower than coverage a year earlier in May 2025. Figure 1 shows trends in newspaper media coverage at the global scale – organized into seven geographical regions around the world – across 22 years, from January 2004 through May 2026.