About
Mission
The Daily Climate works to increase public understanding of climate disruption, including its scope and scale, potential solutions and the political processes that impede or advance them. Establishing bonds of trust with our readers is a fundamental editorial objective; all of our reporting, editing and publishing adheres to the highest standards of journalism, including honesty, accuracy, balance and objectivity.
The Daily Climate does not espouse a political point of view on the news but instead reports the truth to the best of our ability. Editorial integrity is the foundation of our mission.
Towards that goal, The Daily Climate offers enterprise reporting on relevant topics alongside a unique daily aggregation of global journalism on climate science. Our daily news aggregation spans the political spectrum, from center right to center left.
Within that universe, The Daily Climate's aggregation represents the news of the day, irrespective of the opinion or viewpoint expressed, or whether or not material in the article is consistent with our understanding of current science. We often publish several articles from different newspapers covering the same story, as well as multiple editorials and op-eds about the same subject. We take this approach based on the belief that readers who come to DailyClimate.org want to see a wide range of how issues are being covered by the mainstream press.
About Daily Climate
The Daily Climate was formed in 2007 and strives to be the source of record on climate change news. Its core purpose is to provide a daily summary highlighting the best news on climate change from around the globe.
Since November 2008, The Daily Climate has commissioned and published high-quality enterprise pieces on unheralded and oft-overlooked aspects of climate science. Those reports are published along with a daily compilation of news about climate change from mainstream media sources around the world. An index, with links to the stories, can be found in the TDC Newsroom.
Editorial direction is determined by The Daily Climate’s editor, Douglas Fischer, in consultation with the Daily Climate’s editorial board.
The Daily Climate is published every morning (US East Coast time) by Environmental Health Sciences, a global nonprofit media company with headquarters in Charlottesville, Va. It offers a free daily e-letter with summaries and links to the best 15 stories of the day.
Aggregation
Using a combination of automated and manual searches, staff at Environmental Health Sciences review thousands of mainstream news outlets, from center right to center left, every day to locate stories about climate change, including new scientific discoveries, causes, consequences, solutions, and politics. We also bring in stories about energy technologies that are being explored as possible solutions.
Editors review the materials gathered by our team of web researchers and select the top dozen or so stories to be distributed daily in a free newsletter (via subscription) and be published on The Daily Climate’s front page. The others, usually between 30 and 100, are available via a link to the rest of today's news. Articles in the archives can be located using text searches.
We look for all relevant stories in the mainstream press that are published on the web. Most of our sources are daily newspapers and weekly or monthly news magazines. They include English language newspapers with international audiences like the New York Times, the London Guardian and the Jakarta Post; the major newswires like the Associated Press and Agence France-Presse; as well as medium-sized newspapers and small locals published in towns across the US, the UK, India, Australia and New Zealand. We will often post links to radio or television stories. We also cover scientific journals that carry articles relevant to environment and health, such as Science and Nature, and science magazines like New Scientist and Science News. We also survey several chemical and medical publications like Chemical & Engineering News. We post articles from neither the environmental press nor the business trade press.
Usually we carry the headline and lede as they ran in the original publication. We alter them only when changes would convey to readers more precisely what the article is about and where it took place. We want to make it easy for Daily Climate readers to decide quickly whether it is worth their while to follow the link to the original.
Management
Douglas Fischer
Daily Climate Editor
Boulder, Colo.
dfischer@dailyclimate.org
Journalist Douglas Fischer has spent 14 years covering subjects ranging from climate science to pesticides to energy development.
Since 2008, he has served as editor of DailyClimate.org, a non-partisan website compiling mainstream news and current science on climate change. He is also a senior member of the editorial team at Environmental Health Sciences, the non-profit publisher of Daily Climate, where he helps guide the organization’s editorial content and works with scientists to communicate their findings to the press.
Before switching to the Web, Fischer spent eight years covering the environment for the Oakland Tribune and a number of San Francisco Bay Area papers, including the San Jose Mercury News and the Contra Costa Times. Prior to that he spent five years in Fairbanks, Alaska, at the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner, where, among other hats, he was the paper’s restaurant reviewer. He started his journalism career New York City, in Newsweek’s Letters Department.
His articles have won numerous national and regional awards, among them an Award of Merit from the inaugural Grantham Prize, the world’s largest journalism prize. Data from one of his investigations, of a typical family’s chemical body burden, was published in a peer-reviewed article in a leading public health journal in 2006, and he has lectured frequently on environmental health and journalism in conferences, seminars and classrooms across the country.
Fischer has a degree in philosophy from Columbia University and lives with his wife and two children in Boulder, Colo.
John Peterson “Pete” Myers
Publisher, Daily Climate
CEO/Chief Scientist, Environmental Health Sciences
Charlottesville, Va.
Dr. Pete Myers provides overall leadership for the Daily Climate and Environmental Health Sciences, focusing on strategic planning, public outreach and development.
Dr. Myers has a Ph.D. in biology from University of California, Berkeley. His prior appointments include 12 years as director of the W. Alton Jones Foundation and three years as senior vice president for science at the National Audubon Society. He began speaking and writing about climate change in the late 1980s and led the W. Alton Jones Foundation’s philanthropy on climate. He has also served as board chair of the National Environmental Trust and currently is on the board of the Heinz Center for Science, Economics and the Environment, the Environmental Grantmakers Association and the Environmental Working Group.
Funding
Funding for the Daily Climate comes from the Sea Change Foundation, the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, the Oak Foundation, the West Wind Foundation and the Overbrook Foundation. The Kendeda Fund provides core support to EHS. Software was developed in a collaboration with the Edgerton Foundation.
EHS is a project of the Virginia Organizing Project (Charlottesville, Va). Gifts to VOP for EHS qualify as charitable contributions. If you are interested in helping EHS expand its coverage of climate news, please let us know.
Environmental Health Sciences
Environmental Health Sciences was founded in 2002 and has published EnvironmentalHealthNews.org daily since June 2003.
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Staff
John Peterson Myers, Ph.D., Publisher, CEO and Chief Scientist
Todd Koym, chief technology officer
Pauli Hayes, managing editor
Marla Cone, editor-in-chief, Environmental Health News
Douglas Fischer, Daily Climate editor
Lisa Lefferts, Cynthia Palmer-Olson, senior editors
Jennifer Cooper, editor
Laura Pyle, training coordinator/assistant editor
Shorey Myers, West Coast/night coordinator
Jessica Geist, deputy technical editor
Kara West, project coordinator
Senior Web Researchers
Linda Beringer
Dana Dugan
Megan McLaughlin
Toni McLaughlin
Allison Smith
Web Researchers
Tamara Adkins
Anna Baker
Kathy Blachowski
Scott Blackburn
Jennifer Breedlove
Carol Brown
Darlene Bruce
Susanna Byrd
Carmen Comsti
Priya Curtis
Ranajo Dezanett
Gwen Dunnington
Pam Farris
Mara Ferris
Robert Jones
Larken Wright-Kennedy
Christine Keyser
Kai Larson
Emily Lawrence
Kristin Lester
Emily Loffredo
Dustin McHenry
Carolyn Miller
Nathan Mouzon
Dan Myers
Shorey Myers
Kelly Novak
Helen Perivier
Emily Sharrer
Susan W. Sprague
Jessica Suter
Liz Swiman
Peter Teigland
Gen Vann
Environmental Journalism Interns
Matthew Cimitile, Michigan State University
Crystal Gammon, New York University
Andrew Ted McGlashen, Michigan State University
Genevra Pittman, New York University