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climate change
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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?…
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Newly merged infectious disease organization offers journalists’ resources
More than five million children around the world die before the age of five from infectious diseases like pneumonia, malaria…
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Summer can be deadly for older adults
Summertime and the living is easy – sometimes. While most of us look forward to the warmer weather and participating…
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Air pollution within legal limits still can be deadly for older adults
Al Gore’s new movie, “An Inconvenient Sequel, Truth to Power,” delves into the most recent effects of climate change on…
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The earth is heating up. What should journalists call that?
Writing about the increasing temperatures around the globe has been a mainstay of environmental and science journalism for decades, but…
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Covering climate change and health: A primer for journalists
Climate change has been making the headlines. More than 300,000 people kicked off Climate Week NYC 2014 with a march through…
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Health journalism bridges climate change, daily news cycle
Science journalists have struggled to reconcile the undeniable long-term relevance of climate change reporting with the lack of day-to-day immediacy…
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Decline in science journalism hurts health reporting
In The Nation, Chris Mooney and Sheril Kirshenbaum assess the state of science journalism and seek to answer “how did…