Framing Climate Solutions: An Exploratory Quantitative Content Analysis

Researchers have found that the majority of climate solutions journalism in the United States focuses on how people are adapting to the impacts of climate change, rather than on efforts to prevent it from worsening.

Examining how news is typically framed can provide journalists with insights into how they might approach climate stories going forward, according to the researchers behind the study: Dr. Kathryn Thier, a postdoctoral research fellow at the Center for Climate Change Communication at George Mason University, and Xingman Wu, a PhD candidate at the University of Maryland.