NPR

Where the score comes from

Each technique the reading found, as a share of its articles. Tap one to read the passages.

• Leaves out the climate linkAn extreme heat, wildfire weather, drought, extreme rainfall, tropical cyclone or marine heatwave story with no word that warming makes such events worse.29%2 of 7
• Leaves out what changes the pictureThe article leaves out a fact about the event it reports, which the outlet had or other outlets reported about the same event, and without it a reader believes something false about that event. Background the article is not about (overall tolls, the wider crisis) is not this technique.14%1 of 7

Its most framed articles

From the last 90 days. Open one to read it with every flagged sentence marked.

1. 6.0A 'Green Army' is out to thwart El Niño floodingNPR reports Nairobi's preparations for forecast El Niño flooding, the Green Army youth programme and the demolitions it has carried out, and gives space to both the county officials and a vendor who lost his stall.
2. 6.0Southwest flood damage estimates are hundreds of millions for New Mexico aloneNPR reports historic flooding across the Four Corners states, with rescues, displacement and damage estimates of hundreds of millions of dollars in New Mexico.
3. 0.0How AI is transforming hurricane forecastsNPR reports how forecasters are using AI models, chiefly Google DeepMind's, to predict hurricane tracks, using Hurricane Isaias as its example.
4. 0.0Trump says he's ending restrictions on climate-warming methane from oil drillingThe AP report on NPR says Donald Trump is ending a Biden-era rule that limits methane from oil and gas drilling.