Despite a scientific consensus, citizens are divided when it comes to climate change—often
along political lines. Democrats or liberals tend to believe that human activity is a primary …

The news media are a central source of information about climate change for most people.
Through frames, media transmit information that shape how people understand climate …

Climate change is a major threat to ecosystems and people around the world. 1 Risk
analysts, including the US Department of Defense, rank climate change as one of the most …

Amid growing concerns about misinformation on social media, scholars, educators, and
commentators see news literacy as a means to improve critical media consumption. We use …

Using large Twitter datasets collected during the 2012 US presidential election, we
examined how partisanship shapes patterns of sharing and commenting on candidate fact …

Why does knowing more mean believing—and doing—less? A prescription for change The
more facts that pile up about global warming, the greater the resistance to them grows …

Abstract Changes to the media environment have increased polarized voting in America
through both addition and subtraction. We argue that the decline of local newspapers has …

Many publics remain divided about the existence and consequences of anthropogenic
climate change despite scientific consensus. A popular approach to climate change …

Social media are often criticized as serving as a source of misinformation, but in this study
we examine how they may also function to correct misperceptions on an emerging health …

Environmental communication researchers have focused on the role of media frames in the
formation of public opinion. Yet, little is known about how citizens incorporate such frames …