Dickon Bonvik-Stone, Rose Wanjiku, Dr. M Jackson, Roni Zahavi-Brunner and Nina Tea Zibetti are our 2025 Climate Disinformation Media Fellows! They will pursue on-the-ground reporting on climate disinformation case studies. Their articles will be published on our web dossier on Uncovering climate disinformation.
Climate change is one of the most urgent challenges of our time. But we can’t address it if falsehoods continue to spread unchecked and access to trustworthy content and data on climate change is actively being removed. Climate disinformation does not spread in neat, contained silos. It’s part of a larger, interconnected web of false narratives: from anti-science rhetoric to attacks on democratic institutions that feed off one another and evolve quickly. That’s why we need to work across sectors, platforms, and borders. We must understand how these disinformation networks operate and push back against them together.
To help with this task, the Climate Disinformation Media Fellows 2025 will conduct research and storytelling on specific cases of online climate disinformation, running from mid September to the beginning of December 2025. Their pieces will be published on our web dossier Uncovering climate disinformation.
Our 2025 Climate Disinformation Media Fellows are:
Dickon Bonvik-Stone, a strategic communications resource using his skills to address the climate crisis. With a background in digital media and advanced degrees in sustainability and social change, Dickon works to engage and influence audiences on climate-related issues. His podcast, Communicating Climate Change, is available on all major platforms.
Rose Wanjiku, a Kenyan journalist, climate justice advocate based in Berlin. Rose writes on the climate crisis and its effects especially in the Global Majority. She works closely with the Berliner Gazette an online publication that reports in-depth about climate change and disinformation. Rose also leads the Borderless Earth Action Network (BEAN), within the International Women* Space to advocate for a feminist, anti-racist approach to climate justice that recognizes the interconnected struggles of marginalized people worldwide and calls for collective action to address the causes of climate change and the systems that perpetuate inequality.
Nina Tea Zibetti, an investigative journalist based in Turin with a background in environmental economics. She investigates climate disinformation and denial networks, exploring how they shape public debate and policy. Her work combines research and storytelling to expose misinformation and strengthen informed climate action.
Dr. M Jackson, a multidisciplinary science communicator, writer, and glaciologist. Jackson is a National Geographic Society Explorer, TED Fellow, and three-time U.S. Fulbright Scholar. Jackson earned a doctorate from the University of Oregon, a Master of Science degree from the University of Montana, and serves as a U.S. Fulbright Ambassador, an Expert for National Geographic Expeditions, is the Climate and Energy host for Crash Course, and lead scientist on Netflix’s docuseries Pirate Gold of Adak Island. Jackson is a sought-after public speaker and is the author of the award-winning books Ice to Water (2024), The Ice Sings Back (2023), The Secret Lives of Glaciers (2019), and While Glaciers Slept (2015). Learn more at www.drmjackson.com
Roni Zahavi-Brunner, a Brooklyn-based climate justice activist and co-founder of Planet Over Profit, an organization mobilizing hundreds of young people to rise against the fossil fuel industry and its billionaire profiteers. She has led and supported local and national campaigns that have secured major wins, including pushing New York City’s public pensions to divest from private equity firms backing oil and gas pipelines. Roni recently earned a master’s degree in International Affairs from The New School, where she focused on conflict and security studies. During her time there, she contributed to the Stimson Center’s flagship policy report on global climate governance and received the Aronson Fellowship to write on youth climate activism. She is passionate about bridging grassroots climate organizing with rigorous research and journalism, with the goal of combating disinformation and equipping communities to fight for a livable future.
Stay tuned for the publication of their reporting on our Uncovering climate disinformation web dossier, in cooperation with the Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung Washington, DC office.
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