Theresa Riley
@theresariley.bsky.social
Audience Editor at Covering Climate Now (https://bsky.app/profile/coveringclimatenow.org). Interested in climate solutions, policy and activism posts. Personal interests: Journalism, film, books, city planning & interior design...
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$170,000 a minute: Why Saudi Arabia is the biggest blocker of climate action
The desert kingdom depends on oil dollars but its people already face a climate ‘at the verge of livability’. What’s going on?
#COP30 #climatecrisis
Story by me
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The desert kingdom depends on oil dollars but its people already face a climate ‘at the verge of livability’. What’s going on?
#COP30 #climatecrisis
Story by me
1/7
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
$170,000 a minute: why Saudi Arabia is the biggest blocker of climate action
Desert kingdom depends on oil dollars but its people already face a climate ‘at the verge of livability’. What’s going on?
www.theguardian.com
November 16, 2025 at 12:34 PM
$170,000 a minute: Why Saudi Arabia is the biggest blocker of climate action
The desert kingdom depends on oil dollars but its people already face a climate ‘at the verge of livability’. What’s going on?
#COP30 #climatecrisis
Story by me
1/7
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
The desert kingdom depends on oil dollars but its people already face a climate ‘at the verge of livability’. What’s going on?
#COP30 #climatecrisis
Story by me
1/7
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
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They want us to think concern about climate change is a radical, fringe view. They want us to feel isolated. The truth is that we are the majority.
A writer in Ohio calls the existential threat of climate change “a no-brainer.” A radiologist in Scotland describes it as “the greatest hazard to human health in history.” A finance worker, who lost their home in a California wildfire, says, “We have to hold the fossil fuel industry accountable.” 🧵
October 31, 2025 at 2:46 AM
They want us to think concern about climate change is a radical, fringe view. They want us to feel isolated. The truth is that we are the majority.
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It's possible we might not need billionaire opinions on absolutely everything all the time
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Climate Gates
Maybe we don't need billionaire opinions on everything
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October 31, 2025 at 7:25 PM
It's possible we might not need billionaire opinions on absolutely everything all the time
billmckibben.substack.com/p/climate-ga...
billmckibben.substack.com/p/climate-ga...
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@jdickerson.bsky.social explains the joy and value in journalism, with his usual grace, in a sign off broadcast at CBS www.tiktok.com/t/ZTMV7LeJm/
Reporter’s Notebook: Why journalism? @John Dickerson signs off from CBS Evening News Plus with a look back on a career of asking the hard questions, listening to people’s stories and showing why a fre...
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November 1, 2025 at 4:26 PM
@jdickerson.bsky.social explains the joy and value in journalism, with his usual grace, in a sign off broadcast at CBS www.tiktok.com/t/ZTMV7LeJm/
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Story Idea: Study after study has shown that the vast majority of people, 80-89%, want governments to “do more” to address climate change. Understanding who these people are and why gov't action doesn’t align with the overwhelming public interest are all rich territory for reporting. #the89percent
Covering Public Support for Government Climate Action
Explore how the global majority not only cares about climate change, but wants their governments to “do more” to address it.
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October 20, 2025 at 9:11 PM
Story Idea: Study after study has shown that the vast majority of people, 80-89%, want governments to “do more” to address climate change. Understanding who these people are and why gov't action doesn’t align with the overwhelming public interest are all rich territory for reporting. #the89percent
I skipped those sessions this year. I dig the woo woo stuff, but I wanted to hear about the action in the states, in Europe, etc. and I'm glad I did. There 100% needs to be more storytelling about how climate solutions (like heat pumps) are improving the lives (and livelihoods) of real people.
my takeaway from climate week nyc is that "climate storytelling" is a little too much "we must reimagine our deepest souls in relationship to mother nature and the moral abyss of the polycrisis into which we must now stare" and not enough "ok but get a heat pump"
September 29, 2025 at 2:22 PM
I skipped those sessions this year. I dig the woo woo stuff, but I wanted to hear about the action in the states, in Europe, etc. and I'm glad I did. There 100% needs to be more storytelling about how climate solutions (like heat pumps) are improving the lives (and livelihoods) of real people.
I would like to buy this judge a 🍺...
It's worth reading the whole thing... storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
It's worth reading the whole thing... storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Judge rejects Trump’s New York Times lawsuit for being ‘decidedly improper and impermissible’ | CNN Business
In a ruling dripping with derision, a federal judge has rejected President Trump’s defamation lawsuit against the Times. Trump has a month to refile.
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September 19, 2025 at 5:06 PM
I would like to buy this judge a 🍺...
It's worth reading the whole thing... storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
It's worth reading the whole thing... storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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🥁 Drumroll please...
An investigation into the fossil fuel industry’s role in anti-protest laws;
A profile of a Palestinian woman collecting climate-resilient heirloom seeds;
And a sprawling television series tackling the profound fight between saving the planet and growing our economies...
An investigation into the fossil fuel industry’s role in anti-protest laws;
A profile of a Palestinian woman collecting climate-resilient heirloom seeds;
And a sprawling television series tackling the profound fight between saving the planet and growing our economies...
The 2025 CCNow Journalism Awards — Covering Climate Now
Covering Climate Now is thrilled to announce the winners of the 2025 CCNow Journalism Awards. Our awards program, now in its fifth year, honors excellent reporting on many critical dimensions of the c...
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September 18, 2025 at 5:37 PM
🥁 Drumroll please...
An investigation into the fossil fuel industry’s role in anti-protest laws;
A profile of a Palestinian woman collecting climate-resilient heirloom seeds;
And a sprawling television series tackling the profound fight between saving the planet and growing our economies...
An investigation into the fossil fuel industry’s role in anti-protest laws;
A profile of a Palestinian woman collecting climate-resilient heirloom seeds;
And a sprawling television series tackling the profound fight between saving the planet and growing our economies...
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Journalists, when was the last time you scrolled TikTok? Check out this story from @emorwee.bsky.social about a micro-influencer engaging his followers to take climate action with videos from his summer backpacking trip to #ANWR.
This guy got 700,000+ views on TikTok begging media to cover Trump’s push to drill in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.
He asked, we obliged. Read @leahgarden.bsky.social on the great lengths it can take to engage people on one of America’s most remote ecosystems:
He asked, we obliged. Read @leahgarden.bsky.social on the great lengths it can take to engage people on one of America’s most remote ecosystems:
Meet the backpacker making Trump's Arctic drilling push go viral
Bentley Hensel prepared for eight months to show people the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge—and nearly drowned while doing it.
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August 15, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Journalists, when was the last time you scrolled TikTok? Check out this story from @emorwee.bsky.social about a micro-influencer engaging his followers to take climate action with videos from his summer backpacking trip to #ANWR.
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Amy Sherald says the Smithsonian suggested removing a painting of a transgender woman as the Statue of Liberty from her upcoming show at the National Portrait Gallery “to avoid provoking President Trump.” Sherald: “I cannot in good conscience comply with a culture of censorship”
Amy Sherald Cancels Her Smithsonian Show, Citing Censorship
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July 24, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Amy Sherald says the Smithsonian suggested removing a painting of a transgender woman as the Statue of Liberty from her upcoming show at the National Portrait Gallery “to avoid provoking President Trump.” Sherald: “I cannot in good conscience comply with a culture of censorship”
Stop humblebragging! Just kidding… welp! Love you, Canada!
#HappyCanadaDay! Let's celebrate this great country, and also remember that we have much work left to do as we seek reconciliation with Indigenous nations and greater understanding among us all!
July 1, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Stop humblebragging! Just kidding… welp! Love you, Canada!
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Bill Moyers died on June 26 at the age of 91. He was giant in the world of journalism—he was also a climate champion, write Mark Hertsgaard and @kylepope01.bsky.social of @coveringclimatenow.org. www.thenation.com/article/envi...
Bill Moyers Helped Break the Media’s Climate Silence
When Bill Moyers helped launch the Covering Climate Now media collaboration, he urged fellow journalists to “tell the story so people get it.”
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June 30, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Bill Moyers died on June 26 at the age of 91. He was giant in the world of journalism—he was also a climate champion, write Mark Hertsgaard and @kylepope01.bsky.social of @coveringclimatenow.org. www.thenation.com/article/envi...
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Commentary: You Sure You’re In The Mood For Another Wes Anderson Film With Everything That’s Going On? theonion.com/you-sur...
June 17, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Commentary: You Sure You’re In The Mood For Another Wes Anderson Film With Everything That’s Going On? theonion.com/you-sur...
Was at NYC Penn Station in early '90s waiting for a train back to Boston. Saw Ric Ocasek walking towards me and I audibly gasped with my mouth agape. He gave me a stunning, knowing smile. It was just what I needed. :)
Right folks. Feeling rather down at the moment so bringing back an oldie
Please Quote this with your most minor celebrity interaction
Please Quote this with your most minor celebrity interaction
June 13, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Was at NYC Penn Station in early '90s waiting for a train back to Boston. Saw Ric Ocasek walking towards me and I audibly gasped with my mouth agape. He gave me a stunning, knowing smile. It was just what I needed. :)
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Cuts have consequences, illustrated. As seen on TV 📺
June 3, 2025 at 12:45 AM
Cuts have consequences, illustrated. As seen on TV 📺
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stop trying to make curtis yarvin happen
June 2, 2025 at 4:59 PM
stop trying to make curtis yarvin happen
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I still think the best idea for progressive donors is to just revive every alt-weekly in the country and staff them with 10 reporters each.
I wrote a bit about the misguided effort by Democrats to replicate Joe Rogan the right-wing podcast ecosystem.
May 27, 2025 at 8:57 PM
I still think the best idea for progressive donors is to just revive every alt-weekly in the country and staff them with 10 reporters each.
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@frediotto.bsky.social is a leading practitioner of arguably the most important development in climate science in many years: attribution science.
Like police officers dusting a crime scene for fingerprints, attribution science reveals what role climate change played in a given weather disaster.
Like police officers dusting a crime scene for fingerprints, attribution science reveals what role climate change played in a given weather disaster.
May 19, 2025 at 8:32 PM
@frediotto.bsky.social is a leading practitioner of arguably the most important development in climate science in many years: attribution science.
Like police officers dusting a crime scene for fingerprints, attribution science reveals what role climate change played in a given weather disaster.
Like police officers dusting a crime scene for fingerprints, attribution science reveals what role climate change played in a given weather disaster.
As @parkermolloy.com (h/t) commented on this piece, I found myself nodding along all through. So much has been lost in the commodification of journalism. I miss the 90s so much. And @marthabayne.bsky.social, I am definitely going to buy your book! marthabayne.substack.com/p/journalism...
Journalism Dreams
I wrote about the "Heat Index" scandal and why it may not matter
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May 25, 2025 at 3:59 PM
As @parkermolloy.com (h/t) commented on this piece, I found myself nodding along all through. So much has been lost in the commodification of journalism. I miss the 90s so much. And @marthabayne.bsky.social, I am definitely going to buy your book! marthabayne.substack.com/p/journalism...
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A growing number of communities across the US are suing fossil fuel companies for climate damages caused by their products. Their core argument? Oil companies knew fossil fuels were driving climate change and lied about it. coveringclimatenow.org/from-us-stor...
Taking Big Oil to Court
Communities across the US are suing to make fossil fuel companies pay up for climate damages
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May 6, 2025 at 2:56 PM
A growing number of communities across the US are suing fossil fuel companies for climate damages caused by their products. Their core argument? Oil companies knew fossil fuels were driving climate change and lied about it. coveringclimatenow.org/from-us-stor...
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Anyone looking for a recording of my Earth Day conversation about Climate Activism at @coveringclimatenow.org with @amywestervelt.bsky.social John Paul Mejia and @theresariley.bsky.social, here you go: youtu.be/gTA3YcNgrNo
Press Briefing: The Future of Climate Activism
YouTube video by Covering Climate Now
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April 24, 2025 at 10:42 AM
Anyone looking for a recording of my Earth Day conversation about Climate Activism at @coveringclimatenow.org with @amywestervelt.bsky.social John Paul Mejia and @theresariley.bsky.social, here you go: youtu.be/gTA3YcNgrNo
I guess, but can’t we think bigger than self-driving cars? Cars seem so 1960s to me, too. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/23/o...
Opinion | How I Describe Myself Politically These Days
America needs to figure out how to dominate the industries of the future. Call me a “Waymo Democrat.”
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April 24, 2025 at 2:41 AM
I guess, but can’t we think bigger than self-driving cars? Cars seem so 1960s to me, too. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/23/o...
“You cannot ask questions of a statue.”
This is a travesty.
This is a travesty.
Looks Like Mussolini, Quacks Like Mussolini
The National Garden of American Heroes represents a dangerous shift in values—from inquiry to reverence.
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April 23, 2025 at 11:40 PM
“You cannot ask questions of a statue.”
This is a travesty.
This is a travesty.
Many years ago, I worked for a man named Bill Moyers and he gave all of us on staff this pocket copy of the US Constitution. Thanks for reminding me, @jamellebouie.net! It’s now off my bookshelf and in my purse. ;)
April 20, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Many years ago, I worked for a man named Bill Moyers and he gave all of us on staff this pocket copy of the US Constitution. Thanks for reminding me, @jamellebouie.net! It’s now off my bookshelf and in my purse. ;)