Article

Abstract

• May 2020 has been a pivotal month in human history. Amid accelerated learning and intense behavior change, media attention to climate change and global warming at the global level increased slightly (0.2%) from April 2020 coverage. Compared to a year earlier (May 2019), much like the precipitous drop detected April 2019-April 2020, the number of news articles and segments about climate change and global warming in May 2020 dropped dramatically as well. Coverage May 1-31, 2020 through our Media and Climate Change Observatory (MeCCO) monitoring of 120 media sources in 56 countries and ten languages all across the planet has found a 52% drop from May 1-31, 2019. Regionally, the ongoing stream of stories in this past May increased in the Middle East (up 8%), Latin America (up 28%) and Oceania (up 30%). In contrast, coverage was decreased in Asia (down nearly 1%), Africa (down 22%) and North America (down 21%) from the previous month. Also in May 2020, coverage from international wire services – The Associated Press, Agence France Presse, The Canadian Press, and United Press International – dropped 4% from the month before while contracting 63% from May 2019.

Creator

• Nacu-Schmidt, Ami
• Pearman, Olivia
• Boykoff, Max
• Katzung, Jennifer

Date Issued

• 2020-06

Academic Affiliation

• Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences

Journal Issue/Number

• Issue 41

Last Modified

• 2020-06-26

Resource Type

• Article

Rights Statement

• In Copyright

DOI

•  https://doi.org/10.25810/055e-gx73

Language

• English [eng]

License

• Creative Commons BY Attribution 4.0 International

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• Media and Climate Change Observatory Monthly Summaries

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