🌡️Our 2025–26 Temperature Check report is officially out! Read the full report at the link in our bio.
🌎This release rounds out a busy and incredibly productive Earth Month for our center, filled with research, events, and meaningful conversations across campus and beyond.
🗒In this year’s report, more than 50% of climate communicators identified the over-politicization of climate change and the positions of the current U.S. presidential administration as their biggest challenge in 2025. Across all climate and environmental issues, communicators expressed the greatest concern about the continued lack of meaningful climate action.
#ClimateCommunication #EarthMonth #ClimateAction #EnvironmentalLeadership
Every climate story is personal.
When the 2025 LA fires tore through Los Angeles and neighboring cities, the scale of destruction was staggering. Thousands of acres burned. Several neighborhoods were evacuated. Over a hundred thousand people were forced to leave behind the homes they had built their lives around.
But for those who lived through it, the impact of the fires cannot be captured by these numbers alone. The losses unfold in quieter, more intimate ways — the anxiety of packing all your belongings into a car without knowing where to go or what to do, the fear of not knowing what will be lost and what will remain, the dread when you discover that even though your house survived, it is no longer safe to live in.
The USC Annenberg Center for Climate Journalism and Communication announces the launch of a special season of @usc_electricfutures Futures, titled My Story Is a Climate Story.
This three-episode series documents the lived experiences of five USC professors who were displaced by the 2025 LA fires. Over the course of nine months, they reflected on what it meant to lose their homes and communities, to navigate a prolonged process of displacement and recovery, and to bring those deeply personal experiences back into their work as educators, leaders, and community members.
Rather than framing climate change solely through policy, projections, or environmental data, this series centers its human consequences — the emotional toll, the institutional challenges, and the long-term impacts that continue long after immediate disaster response ends.
My Story Is a Climate Story offers an intimate look at how climate-amplified disasters reshape lives, relationships, and the way people understand their place in the world.
🎧 The season is now streaming on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and Amazon Music.
#MyStoryIsAClimateStory
🌱 𝐂𝐨𝐦𝐦𝐮𝐧𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐁𝐢𝐨𝐝𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐢𝐭𝐲
“𝘉𝘪𝘰𝘥𝘪𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘴𝘪𝘵𝘺 𝘪𝘴𝘴𝘶𝘦𝘴 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘶𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘳𝘳𝘦𝘱𝘰𝘳𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘮𝘦𝘥𝘪𝘢 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘱𝘢𝘳𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘰 𝘤𝘭𝘪𝘮𝘢𝘵𝘦 𝘤𝘩𝘢𝘯𝘨𝘦.” 🐾🦋🦒
This #biodiversityday, let’s change the conversation.
Launched by USC Annenberg Center for Climate Journalism and Communication and @uscdornsife Public Exchange, in collaboration with the @janegoodallinst (Jane Goodall Institute USA) and Sierra Club, this communications guide is intended to be a call to rethink how we speak for nature.
It outlines eight communication challenges, from inaccessible language to underreported issues, and shares framing strategies that help audiences connect biodiversity to issues like climate change, health, and everyday life.
💬 Featuring insights from Jane Goodall and real-world storytelling examples, this guide is built to shift the conversation — from silence to clarity, from crisis to action.
#CommunicatingBiodiversity #HopeInAction #BiodiversityVoices #InternationalBiodiversityDay #BiodiversityDay
As we wrap up the academic year, we want to celebrate and congratulate our graduating Research Assistants, who have worked tirelessly and played an essential role in our center’s success. Natalie Lopez, Anahita Mehra, Nadia Lozano, Avidha Raha, and Lina Rehbein, thank you for your commitment, energy, and the tremendous effort you’ve brought to our center. We are so proud of you and look forward to seeing all that you accomplish next.
We also want to recognize our Engagement Coordinator, Rhysea Agrawal, who has been accepted into USC Annenberg’s PhD program where she will focus on climate communication. Rhysea has been with our Center since its inception, leading our Certificate Program and our annual Temperature Check report. We are incredibly grateful for her contributions and excited to see her continue her academic journey as a Trojan.
Congratulations to each of you. We are cheering you on! 🎓✨
Electric Futures en Español: El Centro de Datos en La Cuadra!
El segundo episodio especial de Electric Futures en Español está disponible ahora. En colaboración con @justdimelo , hacemos un resumen de la serie original de Electric Futures en inglés: The Data Center Next Door.
Este episodio fue presentado por Natalie Lopez, productora ejecutiva y nativa del Valle Imperial — la área de enfoque de esta temporada.
Checa el enlace en nuestra página para escucharlo ahora! - - -
The final episode of season 3 of Electric Futures is OUT NOW!
Thank you to the team @justdimelo for making this possible.
#centrodedatos #electricfutures #podcastenespañol #ia #valleimperial
Earth Month at the #ASCJ Center for Climate Communication and Journalism means hosting critical conversations on energy and sustainability – both in-person and over the airwaves! Early in April, @uscclimate held a live recording of their award-winning “Electric Futures” podcast, bringing community and climate experts into conversation about the impacts of data centers. Former Director of Sustainability for the Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games Georgina Grenon also shared her insights on climate diplomacy and sustainability leadership with #ASCJ students, faculty and staff in a joint event with #ASCJ’s Center on @publicdiplomacy . Thank you to all who attended for supporting these important conversations!
Happy Earth Day from CCJC! 🌎
Climate action starts with all of us. Keep learning, asking questions, and showing up for the planet -- on campus, at home, and beyond. 💚
#earthday
The moment you have all been waiting for…
ALL 6 EPISODES for season 3 of Electric Futures: The Data Center Next Door is OUT NOW on all platforms
Tune in today to hear from leading experts, community members, and your host, Charles Zukoski, to hear all you need to know of over 9 months of research on Data Centers.
#outnow #electricfutures #podcast #imperialvalley datacenter
Thank you to everyone who came to Electric Futures LIVE last Thursday!
We’re excited to be sharing more episodes out TOMORROW. Subscribe to our channel and stay tuned to be notified when they’re out‼️
Follow us @usc_electricfutures
Thank you to our team at Annenberg for helping us put this together and a special thanks to our speakers Sean Wilcock, Shaolei Ren, and Kelly T. Sanders!
#usc #electricfutures #datacenters #live #ai
We are excited to share two podcast episodes featuring two members of our center, Director Allison Agsten and Research Assistant Nadia Lozano. The episodes reflect on the importance of climate change communication and how to engage in meaningful dialogue.
Center for Climate Journalism and Communication Director Allison Agsten joins @joanmichelson on the #ElectricLadiesPodcast to discuss “How To Talk “Climate” To Keep People Safe.” In the episode, Allison shares how to keep people safe with adaptation strategies without talking about climate change.
Nadia Lozano joins the #DisruptingPeacePodcast hosted by the @worldpeacefdtn to discuss “What Works to Combat Climate Change Misinformation?” Nadia shares how the Climate Center for Journalism and Communication’s certificate program empowers journalists to accurately report climate science and elevate communities while engaging audiences.
Listen to both episodes on all platforms!✨
🌎 Join us April 14 for a conversation on climate diplomacy with Georgina Grenon, ex-director of sustainability for the Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games and current senior advisor & NED, and USC Chief Sustainability Officer Mick Dalrymple.
🔗: /event/climate-diplomacy-action
As climate change increasingly reshapes global politics, economic systems, and international cooperation, this event will explore how sustainability leadership is becoming an essential tool of diplomacy. The discussion will be moderated by Allison Agsten, director of USC Annenberg’s Center for Climate Journalism and Communication.
ELECTRIC FUTURES SEASON 3, EPISODE 1 OUT TOMORROW!
Stay tuned for more on data centers in the Imperial Valley and the larger implications tomorrow‼️
Cover art by @lyframes
#datacenter #ai #imperialvalley #usc #podcast
