Why we find extreme weather so fascinating

By Will de Freitas, Environment + Energy Editor, UK edition

When climate change leads the news, it’s often down to a hurricane, heatwave or flood. And, judging by our most widely read environment stories over the past decade, extreme weather really is one of the main ways the public (or at least our readers) learns about climate breakdown.

This roundup of The Conversation’s climate coverage comes from our weekly climate action newsletter. Every Wednesday,…

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~	Making documentaries for select audiences: Interview with Nepali filmmaker Rajan Khatet

~	Georgian lawmakers inch closer to final approval of anti-LGBTQ+ law

~	What you need to know about the X (formerly Twitter) situation in Brazil

~	Covering Ukraine from Kyiv: Interview with Ukrainian-American journalist Peter Zalmayev

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~	The murder of a young girl in Ethiopia reveals TikTok’s content moderation failures

~	From challenge to champion: how Black and Asian women overcome barriers to career success

~	Useless spies save Britain in the brilliant Slow Horses – what you should watch, listen to and read this week

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