This essay examines media and environment during the pandemic through the conceptual lens of environmental communication. We take the pulse of environmental communication under COVID-19, noting that while the quantity of media coverage on key environmental issues has fallen during the blanket coverage of the pandemic, COVID-19 has acted on multiple levels as a moment of discursive change in environmental communication. We contend that mediatised discourse on the environment during the pandemic has offered new insights, and an opportunity for a reset in environmental understandings, including a new consciousness of global connectedness in environmental responsibility, and an opportunity to improve publics’ environmental literacy. *** This essay is intended for the extraordinary issue, on Coronavirus, Crisis and Communication ***

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冠状病毒危机作为转折点：大流行时期的环境交流

本文通过环境传播的概念视角审视大流行期间的媒体和环境。我们把握 COVID-19 下环境传播的脉搏，并指出，虽然在大流行的全面报道期间媒体对关键环境问题的报道数量有所下降，但 COVID-19 已在多个层面发挥作用，成为环境话语变化的时刻。沟通。我们认为，大流行期间有关环境的中介话语提供了新的见解，并提供了重新认识环境的机会，包括对环境责任的全球联系的新意识，以及提高公众环境素养的机会。*** 这篇文章是针对关于冠状病毒、危机和沟通的非同寻常的问题 ***