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climate change
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Tip sheet: Reporting on the health sector’s big impact on greenhouse gas emissions
Even before the extreme weather of this summer, health care systems had become increasingly aware that climate change endangers human…
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Tips for reporting on the health impacts of a boiling world
Worldwide, extreme heat kills at least 300,000 people each year. “High temperature events” have numerous adverse health effects that can…
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New tip sheet: The impact of climate change on health equity
I have reported extensively on the COVID-19 pandemic with many of my stories highlighting health care disparities. I quickly noticed…
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A national focus on health equity: important updates for reporters
Social determinants are well-known factors in individual health outcomes, but the coronavirus pandemic appears to have created urgency in the…
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Military’s heat-related illnesses, deaths demonstrate link between climate change, health reporting
Climate change and health care are two separate beats, right? Usually that’s the case. Environmental reporters worry about endangered species…
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Using narrative to link climate change to changes in global health
The threat of emerging infectious diseases is expanding as climate change is altering the range of animals, people and the…
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Tick season increasingly begins sooner with climate change
Ticks are emerging earlier from winter hibernation and remaining active for more weeks of the year as the climate is…
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Covering climate change and public health from the local level
One angle journalists can take to tackle huge issue like climate change and public health is to take a focused…
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Experts to discuss covering climate change and public health; your input invited
There is no question that the changing climate is already having an impact on Americans’ health. Heat waves, wild fires…
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Researchers study Rift Valley fever as climate change expands risks
Could another seemingly obscure mosquito-borne disease that formerly existed mostly in Africa spread around the globe like the Zika virus?…