'It's a crisis, not a change': the six Guardian language changes on climate matters

A short glossary of the changes we've made to the Guardian's style guide, for use by our journalists and editors when writing about the environment Support Guardian journalism today, by making a single or recurring contribution, or subscribingIn addition to providing updated guidelines on which images our editors should use to illustrate the climate emergency, we have updated our style guide to introduce terms that more accurately describe the environmental crises facing the world. Our editor-in-chief, Katharine Viner, said: "We want to ensure that we are being scientifically precise, while also communicating clearly with readers on this very important issue". These are the guidelines provided to our journalists and editors to be used in the production of all environment coverage across the Guardian's website and paper: Related: The urgency of climate crisis needed robust new language to describe it | Paul Chadwick Continue reading...