Torched Earth

Climate change is in the news every day. 296 new stories since yesterday.

People say that if climate change were really such a big deal, it would be in the news every day. It is. This site is the proof: a plain list of the day's climate stories, from the outlets you already know, with a link to each one.

How it works

Each morning a program reads the feeds of about thirty news outlets and runs a set of Google News searches. A language model reads every headline and keeps the ones that are about climate change, sorts each into Causes, Effects, Solutions or Elsewhere, notes whether it is original reporting, a study, a reprint or clickbait, and writes a one-sentence summary. When many outlets cover the same story, it appears once, with the others under "Also".

A story stays on the front page for about four weeks, then lives on its section page. Everything stays in the archive, which is searchable.

What it is not

It is not a news site. Nothing here is written by a reporter; the headlines are the publishers' own and the links go to them. Read the article, not the summary. The sorting is done by software and will sometimes be wrong; when it is, the story will still be there, just in the wrong column.

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Who

Torched Earth is run by a retired writer in Washington State who got tired of hearing that climate change isn't in the news.