Potential resources for thinking about climate change in the news: http://environment.yale.edu/climate-communication/
New York Times coverage of Global Warming and Climate Change: http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/science/topics/globalwarming/index.html
The Ebola Files: Given the current Ebola outbreak, unprecedented in terms of number of people killed and rapid geographic spread, Science and Science Translational Medicine have made a collection of research and news articles on the viral disease freely available to researchers and the general public.
Here is a resource page on fracking:http://guides.law.csuohio.edu/content.php?pid=369417&sid=3025670