It seems like I was reading a lot of articles about the Permafrost in Siberia hitting temperature records as well as suffering from massive wildfires. Now it seems like there is less news from that region.
The news industry is a business like any other. Journalists don't stop reporting on things when the things stop happening; they stop reporting when they feel the reports aren't driving engagement with the audience, eg revenue.
There is only a loose correlation between what's happening in the world and what's being reported in newspapers and journals when it comes to long term trends.
What is novel and salient is only a tiny fraction of what is relevant to come to an informed opinion. That’s why news is set up for failure if its role is seen as informing the public. I see more potential for documentaries when it comes to informing the public, but the news controversies around past climate documentaries have made the category somewhat burnt.
Also when something is getting worse at the same rate it was getting worse previously, engagement drops in favour of stories where change is new or accelerating: over the last while has been Covid then Ukraine then inflation all blowing up surprisingly and rapidly while the permafrost situation is quietly getting worse as expected.
If you are in the UK right now you'd be forgiven for asking “whatever happened to news about inflation and Ukraine” because they fell off the news cycle for a while unless you took efforts to look beyond the daily headlines & front-pages, as they were progressing just as bad as before but something else (the health of ol' Liz and related constitutional matters) had a sudden bump in its rate of change. Even the 9/11 anniversary didn't get a look-in.
Ukraine is creeping back into the news cycle, as monarch related matters are settling into their final pattern (everyone who needs/wants to know has a clue how the next week or few are going to pan out in that regard) but there has been a sudden change in the Ukraine/Russia situation in the form of the recent surprise counter offensive (surprise both in that such an effort was not sign-posted, for the obvious reason that being unexpected was part of the plan, and in how effectively it has worked).
>7 times less area was affected by forest fires in the region this year compared to 2021. This is inside scoop but you can easily verify it by checking particulates/CO data using nullschool's earth. Last year smoke covered area the size of Oregon or something and persisted for weeks.
"There had been very few fires" is just not catchy news, who would like or comment?
Permafrost thawing is a separate issue but may be a bit harder to obtain realtime data until buildings crumble