Under Bari Weiss, CBS News dismantled its climate team and retreated from climate reporting

Under Bari Weiss, CBS News dismantled its climate team and retreated from climate reporting

Since Bari Weiss became CBS News editor-in-chief in October 2025, the network has dismantled the dedicated climate reporting team that helped make it a multi-year leader in broadcast coverage of climate change, eliminating most of the team last fall and laying off its last dedicated climate correspondent in spring 2026. As its climate coverage contracted, the network also aired segments that discounted scientific warnings and downplayed the cons…