Journal articles: 'Climate stories'

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Harris, Dylan M. "Telling Stories about Climate Change." Professional Geographer 72, no. 3 (December 6, 2019): 309–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00330124.2019.1686996.

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Matless, David. "Climate change stories and the Anthroposcenic." Nature Climate Change 6, no. 2 (January 27, 2016): 118–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nclimate2862.

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McCOMAS, KATHERINE, and JAMES SHANAHAN. "Telling Stories About Global Climate Change." Communication Research 26, no. 1 (February 1999): 30–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/009365099026001003.

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Sharma, Kabir, and Mihir Mathur. "Identifying Climate Adjacency for Enhancing Climate Action Using Systems Thinking and Modelling." Systems 9, no. 4 (November 16, 2021): 83. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/systems9040083.

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This paper presents findings from a process aimed at identifying the climate linkages of non-climate focused environment and development projects in India. Findings from four case studies based on workshops using participatory systems thinking are summarized. These climate adjacencies are documented as systems stories using the tools of systems thinking—behavior over time graphs and causal loop diagrams. These place-based stories highlight how the environment and development projects have linkages with climate change mitigation and adaptation. An attempt has been made to convert one of the systems stories into a computable simulation model using system dynamics modelling. A small concept model has been created thus and used to perform simulation runs. Four scenarios have been generated and the results discussed. Our learning from converting feedback maps into stock-flow models is presented. The insights generated from interpreting the feedback maps and simulation results are also presented. These insights are then compared and the benefits of simulation evaluated. The paper highlights the need to document climate linkages of non-climate-focused development projects and the benefit of converting systems stories into simulation models for developing operational insights. The important role such methods can play in developing capacities for enhancing climate action is also discussed.

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Graminius, Carin, and Philip Dodds. "The art of storytelling: against the instrumentalisation of stories as information sources in climate communication." Nordic Journal of Library and Information Studies 4, no. 1 (September 27, 2023): 51–65. http://dx.doi.org/10.7146/njlis.v4i1.136351.

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Storytelling is an important tool of public engagement for researchers, not least for climate scholars. However, a problem arises when stories are treated instrumentally as means of delivering specific messages and as information sources. In particular, controlled experiments measuring the impact of stories on readers may misrepresent how stories work in practice. In this article, we shift perspective and re-emphasise the complexity of storytelling by analyzing the role of stories in three “climate fiction” novels: Sands of Sarasvati by Risto Isomäki, Green Earth by Kim Stanley Robinson and Tentacle by Rita Indiana. We highlight four underrepresented perspectives on storytelling: (1) stories may be used as time-resistant sources of scientific evidence; (2) stories may provide moral guidance; (3) stories have the ability to make connections, organizing events and agencies; and (4) stories afford storytellers agency to act on climate change. We thus conclude that efforts to evaluate the impact of stories require an understanding of how stories function in specific works of art.

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Brisman, Avi. "Ecocide and Khattam-Shud." Journal of Aesthetic Education 57, no. 3 (October 1, 2023): 107–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.5406/15437809.57.3.07.

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Abstract In the spirit of green cultural criminology, which considers the way(s) in which environmental crime, harm, and disaster are constructed, represented, and envisioned by the news media and in popular cultural forms, and narrative criminology, which explores how stories can influence (promote, curb, prevent, or resist) action, including harmful action, this provisional article seeks to intercede (although, perhaps, “intervene,” in the McGregorian sense, is more accurate) in the debate, of sorts, between the Indian writer Amitav Ghosh and the British critic, editor, and theorist Mark Bould. Whereas Ghosh, in The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable (2016), laments the failure of contemporary literature to engage with climate change, Bould, in The Anthropocene Unconscious: Climate Catastrophe Culture (2021), considers whether all stories might be stories about climate change. Taking Salman Rushdie's Haroun and the Sea of Stories (1990) as an example, this article argues that this phantasmagorical tale about the problems of censorship could be applied to and analyzed in the context of climate change. The article considers how we might tell (more, better) stories of climate change and concludes by calling for a marshalling of diverse stories to reflect the most pressing issue of our time.

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Meynell, Leola. "(Re)Storying Gender and Climate Change: Feminist Ethical Possibilities." Ethics & the Environment 28, no. 2 (September 2023): 81–115. http://dx.doi.org/10.2979/ethicsenviro.28.2.05.

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Abstract: This article critically considers how existing social power relations are reified in the stories we’re using to tell stories about gender and climate change. Throughout, I draw on Donna Haraway’s argument that “it matters what stories make worlds, which worlds make stories” (2016, 12) to explore some of the theoretical possibilities for re-storying gender and climate change offered by feminist and critical scholars. I work through two contextual examples: i) United Nations and associated governmental policy on ‘gender mainstreaming’ in our climate responses; and ii) climate change legislation and Indigenous women’s voices on environmental relationships in Aotearoa New Zealand and the South Pacific. I argue that alongside our need for urgent climate action, we must also disrupt the social power relations reified through hierarchical binaries in our climate change texts, such as Global North/Global South, masculine/feminine, and developing/developed, if we are to ethically and relationally respond to our climate crises.

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Mackenthun, Gesa. "Sustainable Stories: Managing Climate Change with Literature." Sustainability 13, no. 7 (April 6, 2021): 4049. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su13074049.

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Literary and cultural texts are essential in shaping emotional and intellectual dispositions toward the human potential for a sustainable transformation of society. Due to its appeal to the human imagination and human empathy, literature can enable readers for sophisticated understandings of social and ecological justice. An overabundance of catastrophic near future scenarios largely prevents imagining the necessary transition toward a socially responsible and ecologically mindful future as a non-violent and non-disastrous process. The paper argues that transition stories that narrate the rebuilding of the world in the midst of crisis are much better instruments in bringing about a human “mindshift” (Göpel) than disaster stories. Transition stories, among them the Parable novels by Octavia Butler and Kim Stanley Robinson’s The Ministry for the Future (2020), offer feasible ideas about how to orchestrate economic and social change. The analysis of recent American, Canadian, British, and German near future novels—both adult and young adult fictions—sheds light on those aspects best suited for effecting behavioral change in recipients’ minds: exemplary ecologically sustainable characters and actions, companion quests, cooperative communities, sources of epistemological innovation and spiritual resilience, and an ethics and aesthetics of repair.

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Mynett, Arthur. "Lessons of climate change, stories of solutions." Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists 67, no. 1 (January 2011): 51–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0096340210393886.

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Huq, Saleemul. "Lessons of climate change, stories of solutions." Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists 67, no. 1 (January 2011): 56–59. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0096340210393925.

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Krebs, Martha. "Lessons of climate change, stories of solutions." Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists 67, no. 1 (January 2011): 60–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0096340210393926.

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Woodley, Ewan, Stewart Barr, Peter Stott, Pierrette Thomet, Sally Flint, Fiona Lovell, Evelyn O'Malley, et al. "Climate Stories: enabling and sustaining arts interventions in climate science communication." Geoscience Communication 5, no. 4 (October 17, 2022): 339–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/gc-5-339-2022.

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Abstract. The climate science community faces a major challenge with respect to communicating the risks associated with climate change within a heavily politicised landscape that is characterised by varying degrees of denial, scepticism, distrust in scientific enterprise, and an increased prevalence of misinformation (“fake news”). This issue is particularly significant given the reliance on conventional “deficit” communication approaches, which are based on the assumption that scientific information provision will necessarily lead to desired behavioural changes. Indeed, the constrained orthodoxy of scientific practices in seeking to maintain strict objectivity and political separation imposes very tangible limits on the potential effectiveness of climate scientists for communicating risk in many contemporary settings. To address these challenges, this paper uses insights from a collaboration between UK climate scientists and artist researchers to argue for a more creative and emotionally attentive approach to climate science engagement and advocacy. In so doing, the paper highlights innovative ways in which climate change communication can be reimagined through different art forms to enable complex concepts to become knowable. We suggest that in learning to express their work through forms of art, including print-making, theatre and performance, song-writing, and creative writing, researchers experienced not only a sense of liberation from the rigid communicative framework operating in their familiar scientific environment but also a growing self-confidence in their ability and willingness to engage in new ways of expressing their work. As such, we argue that scientific institutions and funding bodies should recognise the potential value of climate scientists engaging in advocacy through art–science collaborations and that these personal investments and contributions to science engagement by individuals should be rewarded and valued alongside conventional scientific outputs.

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Mäkelä, Maria. "Climate uncertainty, social media certainty: A story-critical approach to climate change storytelling on social media." Frontiers of Narrative Studies 9, no. 2 (October 1, 2023): 232–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/fns-2023-2016.

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Abstract The article calls for narratives that would accommodate the collision of two complex forms: climate change and social media. Science communication is currently on the lookout for personal stories that make climate change concrete and relatable for both decision-makers and the general public; similarly, climate activism on social media increasingly draws from personal experiences. Yet climate related stories going viral on social media often end up fostering political polarization and stark moral positioning instead of collective climate action. Building on Caroline Levine’s work on new formalism, I argue that this problem results from the collision between (1) climate change and (2) social media as complex forms that challenge the centrality of embodied experience and individual agency, and (3) the prototypical experiential story as a non-complex form. I analyze some viral climate change stories and focus particularly on experientiality, easily shareable masterplots, and moral positioning.

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Bell, Allan. "Media (mis)communication on the science of climate change." Public Understanding of Science 3, no. 3 (July 1994): 259–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/0963-6625/3/3/002.

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Climate change has been widely reported as a scientific and environmental issue. In six months' news coverage of climate change in New Zealand, reporting of basic scientific facts was overwhelmingly accurate. News sources rated over 80% of stories no worse than slightly inaccurate. However, one story in six contained significant misreporting. Some stories overstated the advance of climate change or confused ozone depletion and the greenhouse effect. Scientific sources rated coverage overall worse than their own individual judgments showed it to be. Examination of ways in which stories came about leads to recommendations on how scientists and journalists can work together to better inform the public about climate change.

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Sharman, Amelia, and Candice Howarth. "Climate stories: Why do climate scientists and sceptical voices participate in the climate debate?" Public Understanding of Science 26, no. 7 (March 11, 2016): 826–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0963662516632453.

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Public perceptions of the climate debate predominantly frame the key actors as climate scientists versus sceptical voices; however, it is unclear why climate scientists and sceptical voices choose to participate in this antagonistic and polarised public battle. A narrative interview approach is used to better understand the underlying rationales behind 22 climate scientists’ and sceptical voices’ engagement in the climate debate, potential commonalities, as well as each actor’s ability to be critically self-reflexive. Several overlapping rationales are identified including a sense of duty to publicly engage, agreement that complete certainty about the complex assemblage of climate change is unattainable and that political factors are central to the climate debate. We argue that a focus on potential overlaps in perceptions and rationales as well as the ability to be critically self-reflexive may encourage constructive discussion among actors previously engaged in purposefully antagonistic exchange on climate change.

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Padir, Aylin, Ingrid Shockey, and Seth Tuler. "Storying Climate Change in Himachal Pradesh, India." Practicing Anthropology 41, no. 3 (June 1, 2019): 27–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.17730/0888-4552.41.3.27.

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Abstract Stories of climate change impact underreports the voices of ordinary people emerging with firsthand experience of living closest to the land, even though there are myriad justifications for this approach. We aimed to record personal accounts of perceptions and implications of climate change in rural villages in Himachal Pradesh, India. We applied a modified ethnographic strategy informed by techniques for eliciting life histories from residents with regard to perceived climate changes. While residents reported shorter winters and decreased precipitation and attributed these changes to human activity, the stories revealed nuanced impacts and vulnerabilities, including real rifts in the social fabric and of secondary hardships that have lasting consequences beyond expected predictions. These stories have been preserved and shared via an Instagram platform as a means for amplifying underrepresented voices.

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Yagatich, William A., Eryn Campbell, Amanda C. Borth, Shaelyn M. Patzer, Kristin M. F. Timm, Susan Joy Hassol, Bernadette Woods Placky, and Edward W. Maibach. "Local Climate Change Reporting: Assessing the Impacts of Climate Journalism Workshops." Weather, Climate, and Society 14, no. 2 (April 2022): 415–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/wcas-d-21-0117.1.

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Abstract Prior research suggests that climate stories are rarely reported by local news outlets in the United States. As part of the Climate Matters in the Newsroom project—a program for climate-reporting resources designed to help journalists report local climate stories—we conducted a series of local climate-reporting workshops for journalists to support such reporting. Here, we present the impacts of eight workshops conducted in 2018 and 2019—including participant assessments of the workshop, longitudinal changes in their climate-reporting self-efficacy, and the number and proportion of print and digital climate stories reported. We learned that participants found value in the workshops and experienced significant increases in their climate-reporting self-efficacy in response to the workshops, which were largely sustained over the next 6 months. We found only limited evidence that participants reported more frequently on climate change after the workshops—possibly, in part, due to the impact of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) on the news industry. These findings suggest that local climate-reporting workshops can be a useful but not necessarily sufficient strategy for supporting local climate change reporting. Further research is needed to illuminate how to support local climate reporting most effectively. Significance Statement As part of an NSF-funded project to support local climate change news reporting, we conducted a series of eight journalist workshops. Here we evaluate their impacts. Participants gave the workshops strong positive ratings and experienced significant increases in climate-reporting self-efficacy. There was only limited evidence, however, that the workshops led to more frequent reporting on climate change—a conclusion muddied by the impacts of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) on the news industry. These findings suggest that local climate-reporting workshops may be a useful strategy but that additional research is needed to strengthen the approach.

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Poudel, Jiban Mani. "Pond Becomes a Lake: Challenges for Herders in the Himalayas." Practicing Anthropology 42, no. 2 (March 1, 2020): 30–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.17730/0888-4552.42.2.30.

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Abstract Climate change is disturbing the existing functional relations between socio-ecological systems in the Himalayan region of Nepal. In this paper, I look at the disturbance posed by climate change to the social and ecological dimensions, referencing the Himalayan herders as eye-witnesses. I focus on two thematic areas, that is, the challenges faced by the mountain herders in the context of climate change and their coping strategies. This paper is a product of nine months of ethnographic study between the years 2012 and 2018 conducted at the Nhāson valley. The herders' stories are “real stories” with insights into the climate variability and fluctuation, which is critically valuable to understand the environmental phenomena at a time when scientific evidence is not enough. In this context, an ethnographic study can contribute in documenting the place-specific and culture-specific stories as the powerful evidence to climate change and how it impacts the grounded social and ecological systems.

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Sherpa, Pasang Dolma. "Interfacing Indigenous Knowledge and Climate Change Education." Journal of Education and Research 7, no. 1 (October 4, 2018): 52–64. http://dx.doi.org/10.3126/jer.v7i1.21240.

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This paper is part of my PhD thesis. In this study, using the narrative inquiry methodology, lived experiences of schoolteachers who have been teaching the topics of climate change were collected mainly through interviews in Lamjung District. This paper reflects how teachers have been teaching climate change education and how they have been balancing indigenous knowledge to deal with climate change concerns. Generally teachers have been following implemented and experienced school curricula and accumulating the factual knowledge of climate change science, which has often been linked with the empirical interest of Habermas, especially, with his theory of knowledge and human interest in education. However, the stories of six schoolteachers were not limited to what they have been teaching but also how they have been teaching, how they have been linking environmental concerns with the indigenous knowledge and cultural practices that have been contributing to sustainable management of the natural resources and climate change resilience. Thus the stories of the teachers were also analysed through Habermas's practical and emancipatory interests and indigenous worldviews by reflecting on my own stories while working on the theme of climate change and indigenous peoples at community, national and global levels since 2009.

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Smithers, Gregory D. "Water stories: deep histories of climate change, ecological resilience and the riverine world of the Cherokees." Journal of the British Academy 9s6 (2021): 27–59. http://dx.doi.org/10.5871/jba/009s6.027.

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Cherokee people understand climate change. In their traditional homelands, located in the southern Appalachian Mountains, Cherokees have accumulated vast repositories of knowledge � known as traditional ecological knowledge (TEK) � about changes in geology, fluctuations in local ecosystems and the importance of biodiversity. This knowledge, collected and stored in oral traditions, sacred beliefs, and daily life, ensures the resilience of Cherokee communities. Water stories are key to this resilience. As this article reveals, water stories are sacred stories, part of a living body of knowledge that connects the Cherokees to the landscapes and waterscapes of southern Appalachia. Water stories flow through Cherokee scientific and spiritual knowledge. They are stories thousands of years in the making and provide vital insights that can inform the co-governance of rivers and clarify strategies for living in balance and harmony with local ecosystems. In the old stories of the Cherokee people are fresh insights that can guide climate resilience into the future.

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Terrado, Marta, Nuria Pérez-Zanón, Dragana Bojovic, Nube González-Reviriego, Gerrit Versteeg, Sara Octenjak, Albert Martínez-Botí, and Tanja Joona. "Climate change adaptation stories: Co-creating climate services with reindeer herders in Finland." Science of The Total Environment 908 (January 2024): 168520. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2023.168520.

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Size, Chelsea. "Resisting the cycle of apocalyptic overwhelm: Exploring place, spiritualities and acts of resistance in the face of climate crisis." International Journal of Narrative Therapy and Community Work 2022, no. 4 (April 1, 2023): 1–11. http://dx.doi.org/10.4320/imra1814.

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This paper considers the confronting existential realities of the climate crisis and ways in which narrative practices can be used to help resist overwhelm and sustain climate activism. Recognising that stories shape our lives and the life of our planetary home, the paper examines both broad systemic issues and the everyday effects of living in a time of climate crisis. Recognition is given to modern/colonial ways of being and anti-colonial practices. Narrative questions are offered in connection to three themes: place, spiritualities and acts of resistance. The paper documents rich stories, insider knowledges and skills of living to invite further exploration of collective practice to respond to the climate crisis in urgent and significant ways.

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Vaughn, Sarah E. "The aesthetics and multiple origin stories of climate activism." Social Anthropology 29, no. 1 (February 2021): 213–15. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1469-8676.13007.

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McSpedon, Corinne. "The Top News Stories of 2021: The Climate Crisis." AJN, American Journal of Nursing 122, no. 1 (January 2022): 15. http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/01.naj.0000815392.01475.2a.

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Harrison, Natalie. "2017 Global Health Film Festival: stories of climate change." Lancet 390, no. 10111 (December 2017): 2429–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/s0140-6736(17)32911-2.

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Hanson, Ranae Lenor, Amina Keinan, Derartu Berhanu, Marie Harris, and Megan Habisch. "Climate Disruption and Personal Health—A Conversation AboutWatershed: Attending to Body and Earth in Distress." Creative Nursing 27, no. 4 (November 1, 2021): 275–77. http://dx.doi.org/10.1891/cn-2021-0020.

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In her bookWatershed: Attending to Body and Earth in Distress(2021, University of Minnesota Press), author Ranae Lenor Hanson poses the question: What if we cared for the strained earth as tenderly as we care for a human body in a medical crisis? Using the metaphor of diabetes to explore the climate crisis, Hanson weaves stories from her climate-refugee and urban climate-affected students with those of Minnesota watersheds that have provided a nurturing web for her life. In this article, four former students whose stories appear in the book reflected on their reactions toWatershed.

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Poudel, Jiban Mani. "Pond Becomes a Lake: Challenges Posed by Climate Change in the Trans-Himalayan Regions of Nepal." Journal of Forest and Livelihood 16, no. 1 (October 31, 2018): 87–102. http://dx.doi.org/10.3126/jfl.v16i1.22884.

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Satellite images, repeated photography, temperature and precipitation data, and other proxy scientific evidences support the claim that climate is changing rapidly in Nepal, including in the Trans-Himalayan regions of the country. Climate change in the Trans-Himalayan region of Nepal is altering the existing relations of functional socio-ecological system for generations. This ethnographic assessment of Nhāson village looks at the disturbance posed by climate change to the social and ecological relationship in reference to livestock management practices. It focuses on two thematic areas of communities’ verbalisation of issues and challenges faced by the mountain herders in the climate change context. This paper is the product of ethnographic study between the years 2012 and 2014 in Nhāson. The locals’ attachment to environment and witnesses of change is capable of telling the story on the disturbance of climate change in the social and ecological systems, contextually. The stories gathered during walking, herding, travelling, watching and observing of the places are “real stories” with insights into the past climate variability and fluctuation which is critically valuable to understand the environmental phenomena at times when scientific evidences are not sufficient. Ethnographic study can contribute in documenting the place and cultural specific stories as a powerful evidence to climate change and its impact on grounded social and ecological systems.

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Houston, Donna, Diana McCallum, Wendy Steele, and Jason Byrne. "Climate Cosmopolitics and the Possibilities for Urban Planning." Nature and Culture 11, no. 3 (September 1, 2016): 259–77. http://dx.doi.org/10.3167/nc.2016.110303.

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Cosmopolitical action in a climate-changed city represents different knowledges and practices that may seem disconnected but constellate to frame stories and spaces of a climate-just city. The question this article asks is: how might we as planners identify and develop counter-hegemonic praxes that enable us to re-imagine our experience of, and responses to, climate change? To explore this question, we draw on Isabelle Stengers’s (2010) idea of cosmopolitics—where diverse stories, perspectives, experiences, and practices can connect to create the foundation for new strategic possibilities. Our article is empirically informed by conversations with actors from three Australian cities (Sydney, Brisbane, and Perth) who are mobilizing different approaches to this ideal in various grassroots actions on climate change.

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Klenk, Nicole. "Adaptation Lived as a Story." Nature and Culture 13, no. 3 (December 1, 2018): 322–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.3167/nc.2018.130302.

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Within the field of climate change adaptation research, “stories” are usually simply mined for data, developed as communication and engagement technologies, and used to envision different futures. But there are other ways of understanding people’s narratives. This article explores how we can move away from understanding stories as cultural constructs that represent a reality and toward understanding them as the way in which adaptation is lived. The article investigates questions such as the following: As climate adaptation researchers, what can and should we do when we are told unsolicited stories? How can storytelling, as a way of life rather than as a source of data, inform and elaborate scientific approaches to adaptation research and planning? In this article, I move away from the literature that seeks to develop narrative methods in adaptation science. Instead, I focus on stories that we do not elicit and the world-making practice of storytelling.

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Brisman, Avi. "The Fable of The Three Little Pigs: Climate Change and Green Cultural Criminology." International Journal for Crime, Justice and Social Democracy 8, no. 1 (February 20, 2019): 46–69. http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/ijcjsd.v8i1.952.

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This paper builds on previous calls for a green cultural criminology that is more attuned to narrative, as well as a narrative criminology that does not limit itself to nonfictional stories of offenders, in two ways. First, it considers how a particular kind of environmental narrative—that of climate change—appears, as well as criticisms thereof. In analysing and assessing existing climate change narratives, this paper contemplates the approach of heritage studies to loss and the (theme of) uncertainty surrounding climate-induced migration and human displacement. Second, this paper allegorises the fable of The Three Little Pigs as a story of climate change migration—an aspect of climate change that is misrepresented (and sometimes missing) in the discourse. This paper concludes with additional arguments for approaching, reading and analysing stories regarding human–human and human–environment relationships.

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Walker, Alice, and Lealah Hewitt-Johns. "Bringing climate change into clinical psychology teaching." Clinical Psychology Forum 1, no. 346 (October 2021): 64–69. http://dx.doi.org/10.53841/bpscpf.2021.1.346.64.

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In this article we bring together four stories about integrating teaching on climate change into Clinical Psychology Doctorate courses. We hope it provides tangible examples that may inspire others to ensure all trainees have opportunities to consider this critical topic during training.

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Althaus, Scott L., May R. Berenbaum, Jenna Jordan, and Dan A. Shalmon. "No buzz for bees: Media coverage of pollinator decline." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 118, no. 2 (January 11, 2021): e2002552117. http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2002552117.

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Although widespread declines in insect biomass and diversity are increasing concerns within the scientific community, it remains unclear whether attention to pollinator declines has also increased within information sources serving the general public. Examining patterns of journalistic attention to the pollinator population crisis can also inform efforts to raise awareness about the importance of declines of insect species providing ecosystem services beyond pollination. We used the Global News Index developed by the Cline Center for Advanced Social Research at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign to track news attention to pollinator topics in nearly 25 million news items published by two American national newspapers and four international wire services over the past four decades. We found vanishingly low levels of attention to pollinator population topics relative to coverage of climate change, which we use as a comparison topic. In the most recent subset of ∼10 million stories published from 2007 to 2019, 1.39% (137,086 stories) refer to climate change/global warming while only 0.02% (1,780) refer to pollinator populations in all contexts, and just 0.007% (679) refer to pollinator declines. Substantial increases in news attention were detectable only in US national newspapers. We also find that, while climate change stories appear primarily in newspaper “front sections,” pollinator population stories remain largely marginalized in “science” and “back section” reports. At the same time, news reports about pollinator populations increasingly link the issue to climate change, which might ultimately help raise public awareness to effect needed policy changes.

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Sivle, Anders Doksæter, Amalie Kvame Holm, Jelmer Jeuring, Hans Olav Hygen, and Mai-Linn Finstad Svehagen. "TV meteorologists at MET Norway as climate communicators." Advances in Science and Research 18 (April 9, 2021): 27–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/asr-18-27-2021.

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Abstract. Climate change ought to be a natural part of the weather conversation on TV, radio and social media. Inspired by similar projects in other countries, the Norwegian Meteorological institute established a project in 2019 to develop their TV meteorologists as climate change communicators. The main objective in the project was to integrate research-based, localized climate content in the weather presentation, as to inform and engage the Norwegian public about climate change. Over a period of almost two years, the project has produced several climate stories on the national TV-news. The majority of the stories have also been shared through social media and through press releases to reach a wide range of audiences. In this paper, experiences from the project at the Norwegian Meteorological institute are shared along with recommendations for climate communication. We claim that TV meteorologists can have an important role in climate change communication, with a potential that is often not yet fully realized, and give our thoughts on how to further develop their role.

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Girvan, Anita. "Trickster carbon: stories, science, and postcolonial interventions for climate justice." Journal of Political Ecology 24, no. 1 (September 27, 2017): 1038. http://dx.doi.org/10.2458/v24i1.20981.

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Abstract This article proposes the idea of the trickster figure as a way to account for the shifting material, and cultural properties of carbon in the cultural politics of climate change. Combining scientific understandings of allotropy in chemistry – describing the property of certain elements to manifest in various highly diverse forms – and the insights of Caribbean trickster stories, trickster carbon enables novel understandings of the multiple workings and effects of carbon as a material and cultural element. Rather than granting 'carbon' a singular seemingly-scientific meaning or reducing carbon to a singular problem that master human agents can ever definitively trap or sequester, this notion allows us to view carbon's unique ability to shape-shift in a variety of contexts and for myriad agendas. Understanding carbon in this way provides more than simply a theoretical or imaginative 'romp'; rather, this lens enables both a critique of the ways in which carbon is mobilized in practice as a profit-generating tool of colonial capture and also a generative opening for understanding carbon's potential as a connector to more transformative associations and postcolonial politics. As an ambivalent and paradoxical figure, trickster carbon offers a powerful method of cultural way-finding through the urgent concern of climate change. Key words: Trickster; postcolonial; decolonial; STS; stories; cultural politics of climate change; carbon

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Jones, Michael D. "Communicating Climate Change: Are Stories Better than “Just the Facts”?" Policy Studies Journal 42, no. 4 (November 2014): 644–73. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/psj.12072.

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Schnitzler, Carly. "Telling Human Stories of Climate Change With ArcGIS Story Maps." Geography Teacher 17, no. 4 (October 1, 2020): 169–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/19338341.2020.1828133.

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Brandt, Mark Thompson. "Buildings and stories: mindset, climate change and mid-century modern." Journal of Architectural Conservation 23, no. 1-2 (May 4, 2017): 36–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13556207.2017.1327195.

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Song, Jiyoon, and Bernhard Müller. "Integrating climate change and urban regeneration: success stories from Seoul." Buildings and Cities 3, no. 1 (2022): 874–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.5334/bc.241.

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Pfotenhauer, Rolf. "Climate-Smart for Indigenous Education." International Journal of Education (IJE) 10, no. 4 (December 30, 2022): 01–12. http://dx.doi.org/10.5121/ije.2022.10401.

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Indigenous peoples' have complex knowledge systems within current biodiversity trends and climate impacts. We aim to capture this knowledge through an IFAD funded project. In this project we seek to combine storytelling, as real-life multi-species stories, with problem-based (active) learning where the listener can interact and shape the story. Psomos & Kordaki [23] found that such storytelling facilitates the convergence of student-centered learning. Our conclusion seeks to expand indigenous knowledge for the design and implementation of best practices in complying with all interest groups for the furtherance of our target community.

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Retchless, David, Carolyn Fish, and Jim Thatcher. "Climate change communication beyond the digital divide: Exploring cartography’s role and privilege in climate action." Journal of Environmental Media 3, no. 1 (October 1, 2022): 101–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.1386/jem_00074_1.

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Despite widespread acceptance amongst researchers, climate change and responses to it remain a socially and politically debated topic. Within cartography and cognate disciplines, this has often been construed as an issue of communication: maps are tools for communication and better maps will lead to greater understanding of and responses to climate change. While existing research has shown some support for the efficacy of such approaches, this article calls into question the underlying assumptions of access and equity that pervade such communicative approaches to mapmaking and data visualization. Two new case studies from the authors’ research group highlight the importance of greater consideration of equity and access for climate change communication cartography (CCCC): first, an experiment on the use of storytelling and narrative in maps of climate impacts and, second, an augmented reality tool that presented users with storm surge information for their region. These two cases lead us to an interrogation of the assumptions that undergird claims for the rhetorical power of using cartographic stories and augmented reality. It is, we argue, somewhat of a luxury to experience climate change through stories, not lived experiences or through augmented reality, as opposed to forced displacement. We conclude by reinterrogating the map communication model in light of understandings of maps as constantly made and remade by both map author and map user. By calling into question the ontogenetic security of maps, CCCC can better understand both the impacts and equities of its maps.

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Saleem, Syed Muhammad Saqib, and Bushra Hameedur Rahman. "Pakistani Print Media and Climate Literacy: A Study of Formal-stylistic Frame Analysis during 2018-19." Research Journal for Societal Issues 5, no. 1 (April 1, 2023): 113–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.56976/rjsi.v5i1.61.

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The purpose of this study was to examine climate and environment news articles in two widely-read newspapers in Pakistan, Jang and Dawn, and to identify how these articles are framed using formal-stylistic approaches such as episodic and thematic framing. The goal of the research was to determine whether the print media in Pakistan is contributing to climate literacy through the framing of climate and environment news stories. The study put forward two hypotheses: H1: Climate and environment-related news coverage in Pakistani print media is usually episodic rather than thematic. H2: The way news stories of climate and environment are framed in Pakistani print media, does not enhance climate literacy. The research employed qualitative frame analysis to examine, choose, evaluate, and scrutinize news frames based on episodic and thematic framing. The study investigated how print media covered news stories about climate and environment over a period of two years (2018-19), which were selected because they coincided with significant climate change events that were of great importance for media analysis. To conduct the frame analysis, the researcher evaluated a total of 1,460 newspapers that were published between January 01, 2018 and December 31, 2019. The entire population of newspapers was included in the sample, which consisted of N=694 for Dawn and N=622 for Daily Jang. The study focused on news articles that were published in different sections of each newspaper, such as the front, back, national, and international pages, and that were related to climate or environmental events, either directly or indirectly. The unit of analysis for the research was individual news articles that were published between January 01, 2018 and December 31, 2019. The study discovered that the predominant framing approach employed in both English and Urdu print media (specifically Dawn and Jang newspapers) is episodic, with 87.4% in Dawn and 98.6% in Jang. Nevertheless, Dawn's usage of the thematic framing approach constitutes 12.6% while Jang's usage is merely 1.4%. The most dominant themes coded under episodic framing approach during the selected time period were reports on adverse impacts of climate and environment disasters and political activities of ministers and other government officials with regards to climate and environmental concerns. Such news articles do not provide any context of climate change and fail to enhance climate literacy. The investigation found that both English and Urdu print media, specifically the Dawn and Jang newspapers, primarily used the episodic framing approach, which accounted for 87.4% of Dawn's coverage and 98.6% of Jang's coverage. However, Dawn also utilized thematic framing in 12.6% of its coverage, while Jang only used it in 1.4% of its coverage. The most common themes under the episodic framing approach during the selected time period were news reports about the harmful effects of climate and environmental disasters and the actions of government officials and ministers in relation to climate and environmental issues. However, these news stories lacked any context of climate change and did not contribute to enhancing climate literacy.

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Rogers, Dave. "Climate psychology and the Northern Irish experience." Clinical Psychology Forum 1, no. 346 (October 2021): 23–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.53841/bpscpf.2021.1.346.23.

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The IPCC (2017) suggest that climate communicators should tell a human story, connect with their audiences through points of local interest, and ‘lead with what you know’. Using personal experience and historical perspectives of trauma in Northern Ireland, this article explores the narratives that wed us to environmentally harmful behaviours, climate silence and inactivity; and the stories of belongingness and acceptance we can foster to cultivate change.

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Dahme, Joanne, Claire Donato, Victoria Prizzia, Ellen Freedman Schultz, Theresa R. Stuhlman, and Karen Young. "Fairmount Water Works and its Water Stories." Blue Papers 1, no. 1 (September 1, 2022): 161–71. http://dx.doi.org/10.58981/bluepapers.2022.1.16.

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The Fairmount Water Works of Philadelphia has many stories to tell that span its rich 200-year history. It speaks to the history of technology in America, urban water systems, public health and civic architecture. Although struggling with the increasing impact of climate change, it still has a significant role to play today as a heritage site and as an iconic expression of architectural beauty, civic pride, environmental education and protection and the stewardship of water for all.

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Kundzewicz, Zbigniew W., Adam Choryński, Janusz Olejnik, Hans J. Schellnhuber, Marek Urbaniak, and Klaudia Ziemblińska. "Climate Change Science and Policy—A Guided Tour across the Space of Attitudes and Outcomes." Sustainability 15, no. 6 (March 18, 2023): 5411. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su15065411.

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The ongoing debate on global climate change has polarized societies since ever. The attitude of an individual towards its anthropogenic nature as well as the need and extent to which human beings should mitigate climate warming can result from a number of factors. Also, since the consequences of such alteration in global climate have no borders and became much more severe in the last decades, it is worth it to shed some more light on a current state of an interplay between scientific findings and climate policies. In this paper, we examine a low-dimensional space of possible attitudes toward climate change, its impact, attribution, and mitigation. Insights into those attitudes and evidence-based interpretations are offered. We review a range of inconvenient truths and convenient untruths, respectively, related to fundamental climate-change issues and derive a systematic taxonomy of climate-change skepticism. In addition, the media track related to climate change is reconstructed by examining a range of cover stories of important magazines and the development of those stories with global warming. In a second major step, we span a low-dimensional space of outcomes of the combined climate science-policy system, where each of the sub-systems may either succeed or fail. We conclude that the most probable outcome from today’s perspective is still the same as it was 12 years ago: a tragic triumph, i.e., the success of climate science and the simultaneous failure of climate policy.

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Afzal, Muhammad Sayyam. "Print Media Coverage of Climate Change Crisis in Pakistan: A Comparative Study of Two Newspapers Dawn and Daily Times." Journalism, Politics and Society 2, no. 1 (March 31, 2024): 21–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.63067/fay9ab50.

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The coverage of the climate change crisis in two elite Pakistani English print media outlets, Dawn and Daily Times, is examined in this study. Considering the importance of climate change as a worldwide concern, understanding how it is depicted in the media is critical for raising awareness and affecting public opinion. The study looks at the frequency, themes, and framing of climate change-related articles in these newspapers using content analysis. The study compares the two newspapers to shed light on the variations and similarities in their reporting as well as to analyse the degree of coverage of this critical issue. Political and economic stories received prominent coverage, signifying the media’s acknowledgement of the role played by policymaking, politics, and the economic implications associated with climate change. Moreover, in terms of geographical focus, both newspapers demonstrated a prioritization of reporting on national climate change issues. The implementation of the NDCs long-term plan has exerted a discernible influence on the coverage of climate change-related stories in both newspapers. Notably, after the adoption of the NDCs plan, both Dawn and Daily Times have increased their coverage of climate change issues, thereby indicating the plan’s substantial impact on media attention and reporting.

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Freeman, Bradley C. "Claims, Frames, and Blame." SAGE Open 7, no. 1 (January 2017): 215824401667519. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2158244016675199.

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As economies in Southeast Asia develop, there is renewed interest in the impact such growth has on nature. This study seeks to investigate how environmental issues have been covered in the English-language press of the region. Are some countries providing greater print news coverage versus others? Are there detectable patterns or noticeable biases in the coverage? What sources are relied upon in the print media stories? And what frames do we see in the coverage? This study identified general coverage patterns of the environment over a 10-year period (2002-2012), in several of the region’s English-language newspapers. News stories were analyzed to discern the nature of the coverage, coding for several variables as indicated by previous literature. Results indicate that use of the term climate change became preferred over that of global warming. In addition, coverage increased greatly starting in 2006. Government officials were most often the sources quoted within stories (Claims). Articles contained more “judgments” about the issue than “solutions” (Frames). Finally, though most articles eschewed mentioning a specific actor as causing climate change, “man” was implicated in a number of stories more often than simply “nature” (Blame).

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McCafferty-Wright, Jennice, and Ryan Knowles. "Unlocking the Civic Potential of Current Events with an Open Classroom Climate." Social Studies Research and Practice 11, no. 3 (November 1, 2016): 112–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/ssrp-03-2016-b0009.

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Current events and citizenship intersect in students’ classrooms in ways both problematic and full of potential. Teachers take a range of approaches, from the passive, weekly regurgitation of news stories to the empowered use of current events to explore broader issues and inform civic engagement. Creating an open classroom climate can help teachers unlock the civic potential of current events, which aids students in building civic knowledge, internal political efficacy, and civic self-efficacy. This article begins by introducing teachers to research on open classroom climates using data from the International Civic and Citizenship Survey (ICCS). We then provide examples of the components of an open classroom climate and a survey created from ICCS items for teachers to assess their own classroom’s climate. Elements of an open classroom climate are applied to current events pedagogy with a lesson plan for young children that explores civic responses to water scarcity and features All the Water in the World, a picture book by George Ella Lyon and Katherine Tillotson.

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Martin, Chelsea, Brenda Parlee, and Morris Neyelle. "Fishing Livelihoods in the Mackenzie River Basin: Stories of the Délįne Got’ine." Sustainability 12, no. 19 (September 24, 2020): 7888. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su12197888.

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Climate change is among the greatest challenges facing Indigenous peoples. The impacts of climate change cannot be understood as only ecological or through models and projections. In this study, narratives from Indigenous peoples provide lived experience and insight of how social and ecological impacts are interconnected. Through collaborative research with the Sahtú Renewable Resources Board in the Northwest Territories Canada in the period 2018–2019, this paper shares the stories of the Délįne Got’ine peoples of Great Bear Lake (GBL), and how warming temperatures in the region impact fishing livelihoods. Specifically, we address the question, “What are the impacts of climate change on the fishing livelihoods of the Délįne Got’ine people?” Narratives from 21 semi-structured interviews reveal insights on six dimensions of fishing livelihoods. Analysis suggests the specific indicators of ecological change of concern to fishers and how those impact livelihoods over the short and long term. Given that the majority of research on climate change involving Indigenous peoples in Canada has focused on the high arctic and marine environments, this work is unique in its focus on the subarctic region and on freshwater ecosystems and livelihoods.

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Lundberg, Anita, André Vasques Vital, and Shruti Das. "Tropical Imaginaries and Climate Crisis: Embracing Relational Climate Discourses." eTropic: electronic journal of studies in the Tropics 20, no. 2 (September 10, 2021): 1–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.25120/etropic.20.2.2021.3803.

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In this Introduction, we set the Special Issue on 'Tropical Imaginaries and Climate Crisis' within the context of a call for relational climate discourses as they arise from particular locations in the tropics. Although climate change is global, it is not experienced everywhere the same and has pronounced effects in the tropics. This is also the region that experienced the ravages – to humans and environments – of colonialism. It is the region of the planet’s greatest biodiversity; and will experience the largest extinction losses. We advocate that climate science requires climate imagination – and specifically a tropical imagination – to bring science systems into relation with the human, cultural, social and natural. In short, this Special Issue contributes to calls to humanise climate change. Yet this is not to place the human at the centre of climate stories, rather we embrace more-than-human worlds and the expansion of relational ways of knowing and being. This paper outlines notions of tropicality and rhizomatics that are pertinent to relational discourses, and introduces the twelve papers – articles, essays and speculative fiction pieces – that give voice to tropical imaginaries and climate change in the tropics.

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Vukotic, Perko, Nevenka Antovic, Ranko Zekic, Andrija Djurovic, Tomislav Andjelic, Nikola Svrkota, Radivoje Mrdak, and Aleksandar Dlabac. "Influence of climate, building and residential factors on radon levels in ground-floor dwellings in Montenegro." Nuclear Technology and Radiation Protection 36, no. 1 (2021): 74–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.2298/ntrp201225012v.

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After year-long measurements with CR-39 detectors, nationwide radon survey was performed in 953 homes ? 0.5 % of all permanently inhabited dwellings in Montenegro. Influence of 11 factors (area, climate, type of house, year of construction, basement, foundation slab, number of stories, building materials, window frames, heating, and smoking) and 35 their 35 categories on the radon concentrations in 732 ground-floor dwellings was analyzed using descriptive, univariate and multivariate methods. Univariate analysis dropped influence of the two factors: heating and smoking. It reveals that, on average, radon concentrations in ground-floor dwellings differ at 95 % confidence level in urban and rural areas, in family houses and apartment buildings, in houses with and without basement, and in dwellings with window frames made of wood and PVC/Al. In Cf climate zone they differ from those in Cs and Df zones. Only two pairs of construction periods differ in mean radon concentrations in dwellings: 1980-1999 with 1900-1944, and with 1964-1979. Houses with one, two or three stories have almost equal average radon levels, which are higher than in buildings with more than three stories. Mean value of radon concentrations in houses made of stone are higher than in houses made of concrete, or bricks, or wood. Multivariate analysis revealed that six of the analyzed factors: area, climate, type of house, presence of basement, number of stories, and building materials simultaneously have significant relationships (p < 0.05) with radon concentrations in dwellings on ground floor in Montenegro.

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Journal articles on the topic 'Climate stories'

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