Climate change has been attracting a growing number of headlines of late, but interestingly, as the timeline below shows, the BBC started covering it more heavily in 2018 before its US counterparts CNN, MSNBC and Fox News and has continued to cover it more and more in an almost linearly upwards trajectory even as its US peers sharply decreased their coverage beginning in October 2019 as impeachment and other topics took over the US airwaves. Despite Brexit and a number of other major UK stories, the BBC has maintained its steadily increasing focus on the subject.
