Learning from climate change news: Is the world on the same page?

ABSTRACT: Climate change challenges countries around the world, and news media are key to the public's awareness and perception of it. But how are news media approaching climate change across countries? With the problem of climate change and its solution being global, it is key to determine whether differences in climate change news reports exist and what they are across countries. This study employs supervised machine learning to uncover topical and terminological differences between newspaper articles on climate change. An original dataset of climate change articles is presented, originating from 7 newspapers and 3 countries across the world, and published in English during 26 Conference of the Parties (COP) meetings from the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCC). Three asp

SUBMITTER: Eikelboom S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10954114 | biostudies-literature | 2024

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature