Overview of My Submission

Climate Headlines is your centralized location to get your daily news about anything related to climate change.

Climate change is the most pressing existential threat of our generation. There's a vast amount of information out there, but it's difficult to find and to extract a cohesive story out of it.

Climate Headlines aims to be the place you can go to in order to find the latest you need to know about climate change.

This submission includes the backend of Climate Headlines: an app that retrieves hundreds of news every day from trusted sources devoted to climate. You can find stories by the mainstream media outlets like The New York Times or The Guardian, but also smaller stories by local newspapers that tell the story of how climate change is affecting people today.

The app is an Azure Function. It uses an RSS reader and Bing Search to find all the relevant news, every day. Then it uniques and stores them in a non-relational database (MongoDB). We're still working on a website to surface the news (if you're a Front End or Webflow developer, and are interested in collaborating, send us an email!). For now, we're putting them in a Google Spreadsheet that you can access here. It gets updated every day. We also tweet the best piece on our Twitter account.

Special mention to the amazing Susan Su, who's a climate tech investor, and had the original idea of Climate Headlines!

Submission Category:

Computing Captains

Link to Code on GitHub

Additional Resources / Info

Spreadsheet with daily news, updated around 5pm PST

Our Twitter account

Some screenshots of the News captured by Climate Headlines