Climate change in news media across the globe: An automated analysis of issue attention and themes in climate change coverage in 10 countries (2006–2018)

•Systematic comparison of climate change coverage between the Global South/North.•Considerable, but no longer increasing attention to climate change (2006–2018).•Coverage often focuses on the societal dimension of the climate crisis.•Focusing events, such COPs, associated with attention to climate change across the world.•Global North covers climate change more while South focuses on its impacts on humans.