Replication data and code for: Environmental discourse exhibits consistency and variation across spatial scales on Twitter

Social media platforms, such as Twitter, are an increasingly important
source of information and are forums for discourse within and between
interest groups. Research highlights how social media communities have
amplified movements such as the Arab Spring, #MeToo, and Black Lives
Matter. But environmental digital discourse remains underexplored. In the
present article, we apply automated text analysis to 200,000 Twitter users
in several countries following leading environmental nongovernmental
organizations. Some issues such as public action to decarbonize society or
species conservation were discussed more intensely than agriculture or
marine conservation. Our results illustrate where environmental discourse
diverges and converges on Twitter across countries, states, and
characteristics, such as political ideology. Using the coterminous United
States as a case study, we observed that the prominence of issues varies
across states and, in some cases, covaries with political ideology across
counties. Our findings show paths forward to characterizing environmental
priorities across many issues at unprecedented scale and extent. In this
repository, we provide data and code to reproduce the results in the main
text of this manuscript. This replication code and dataset accompany this
manuscript: https://doi.org/10.1093/biosci/biac051