Climate change in Romanian online news

General descriptionThis dataset contains 5884 Romanian online news articles regarding climate change. The articles are written in Romanian and published between 2008 and 2022 by 13 different Romanian online news outlets. Each data entry has an "id", "date publish", "main text", "source", "url", and "title".Data collectionThe dataset is a byproduct of a larger crawling effort aimed at extracting online news articles published by the top five most visited online news outlets from three business-related categories: News and Analysis, Economy and Finance, and General News. A reputed Romanian online audience ranking website was used to determine the categories and audience ratings (https://www.brat.ro/). The present dataset was obtained by selecting only articles containing the "climate change" or "climate changes" keywords. As such, there are articles that talk primarily about climate change and articles that talk adjacently about climate change.Errors Due to crawling errors, some titles are erroneous and there are 1476 items with missing data in the "date publish" field. Additionally, it is worth noticing that a manual analysis of 200 random articles between 2009 and 2019 revealed that 3.5% of the articles were not related to climate change. A probable cause is the use of text from the "recommended articles" section.A de-duplication procedure was conducted on items with duplicate titles published by the same source. However, duplicates are still present due to similar articles published by different online news outlets. An analysis based on the title of the articles suggested that there are 4% remaining duplicates. However, these were not remove as the "title" field has some erroneous text. If regarded appropriate, a de-duplication procedure using only the title of the articles can be conducted.