Daily Climate: Widespread drought, super-storm Sandy, and a melting ice cap failed to revive the media's interest in climate change in 2012, with worldwide coverage continuing its three-year slide, according to a media database maintained by the nonprofit journalism site The Daily Climate.
The decline in the number of stories published on the topic -- 2.4 percent fewer than 2011 -- was the smallest since the United Nations climate talks collapsed in Copenhagen in 2009.
The press gallery at the UN climate...