Mark Hertsgaard

writer for The Nation, Open Society Institute Fellow

Mark Hertsgaard appears in the following:

Climate Week Kicks Off

Monday, September 18, 2023

Mark Hertsgaard and Amy Westervelt talk about Sunday's march and climate journalism.

The Climate Ramifications of the Debt Ceiling Bill

Tuesday, June 06, 2023

What's left of key climate provisions after those long debt limit negotiations?

How to Cover Climate Now

Wednesday, June 15, 2022

Environment reporters Mark Hertsgaard of The Nation and Justin Worland of TIME discuss how their organizations cover news about climate change.

Is There Still Time to Mitigate Climate Change?

Thursday, February 17, 2022

Mark Hertsgaard discusses how certain aggressive public policies, if enacted right away, could help mitigate some of the most extreme climate disasters.

COP26 Continues: An Update on the UN Climate Change Conference

Thursday, November 11, 2021

Executive director of Covering Climate Now Mark Hertsgaard, has the latest key developments from COP26.

Unnatural Disasters

Friday, September 17, 2021

Why covering the weather must include climate change—and humanity's culpability. 

America Are We Ready for the First 100 Days?: Climate Change

Thursday, February 04, 2021

Join the national conversation Thursday evenings during the first 100 days of the Biden administration.  This week: How would Biden’s climate policies affect the place where you live?

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How Can the Media Cover Climate Change Better?

Thursday, September 19, 2019

Is the media speaking up enough about climate change? Environmental activists track and analyze media coverage on climate change.

California's Water Problem

Monday, April 06, 2015

Environmental reporter Mark Hertsgaard discusses the drought in California, and how misguided water and agriculture policies have contributed to the state's environmental problems.

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Hot: Living Through the Next Fifty Years on Earth

Thursday, January 27, 2011

Mark Hertsgaard discusses why the truth about climate change didn’t hit home until he became a father, although he’s investigated global warming for the New Yorker, Time, Vanity Fair, and the Nation. In Hot: Living Through the Next Fifty Years on Earth, he combines reporting from around the world with reflections on his daughter’s future. He looks at what we should expect in the next five decades: Chicago’s climate transformed to resemble Houston’s, shrinking water supplies and crop yields, mega-storms and rising sea-levels.

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Backstory: Bhopal Sentencing

Thursday, June 10, 2010

Mark Hertsgaard, a fellow at The Open Society Institute and The Nation's environment correspondent, talks about the ruling and the environmental legacy of the Bhopal catastrophe.

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Internet Privacy; CNN Turns 20; Beatles Book; Rush & Dr. Laura on TV; Peru; Media Ownership Rules; Kurt Schork Remembered

Friday, June 02, 2000

CNN's Wolf Blitzer remembers the early days and discusses the looming AOL-Time Warner merger. The Beatles on The Beatles. And would you like some cookies with your Internet?

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Who's a Pundit?; Henry Hyde; Michael Jordan; Who's a Black Artist; 60 Minutes II; Rupert Watch; Community Access

Friday, January 15, 1999

When good journalists go pundit: Blurring journalism and opinion. Michael Jordan retires: Will he remain a marketing machine? What will the NBA do? Who's an African American artist or an artist who's African American?

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Gingrich GONE; TV Sweeps; Happiness and TV; Dewey Defeats Truman; Holocaust in New Media

Sunday, November 08, 1998

What campaign ads and coverage tell us about the issues and the candidates. Are people who watch soap operas happier? How TV sweeps work. Are real journalists a thing of the past?

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