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

Media reports on wildfires often focus on dramatic visuals and immediate damage, but fail to clearly link these events to climate change. This gap in coverage can mislead audiences, obscure scientific consensus, and weaken public understanding of how rising temperatures…

The front page of the Times on July 25 carried a photograph of three people sitting under a striped parasol on the sand near Lacanau in southwest France, looking out to sea. Beyond them, the sky was rust-orange as a wall of wildfire smoke climbed above the treeline. The caption…