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Wildfires: why media coverage doesn’t always make the climate connection

A wildfire can be explained by today’s barbecue, yesterday’s wind direction, a dry spring, four decades of land use change, or a century of emissions.

28.07.2026 20

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Doug Specht

The biggest climate stories often aren’t labelled ‘climate’ – so newsrooms miss them

Budgets are now climate policy. But mainstream media hasn’t caught up.

27.11.2025 10

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Doug Specht

Secret Maps at the British Library reconsiders the lines that shape our world

Maps have always both granted power and threatened it, depending on who controls the data, the scale and the narrative.

03.11.2025 10

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Doug Specht