Media and Climate Change Observatory Monthly Summary: Real danger in this moment - Issue 100, April 2025

April media coverage of climate change or global warming in newspapers around the globe dipped 4% from March 2025. Furthermore, coverage in April 2025 dropped 16% from April 2024. Figure 1 shows trends in newspaper media coverage at the global scale – organized into seven geographical regions around the world – across 21 years, from January 2004 through April 2025. The politics of climate change – driven in the United States (US) context with reactions in Canada – fueled increased media coverage in North America and more specifically in US print media, with the number climate change or global warming stories growing in April from the previous month across all outlets we monitor except for in the Wall Street Journal (-33%): Washington Post (+33%), New York Times (+18), Los Angeles Times (+26%), and USA Today (more than tripling).