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Local reporting on health effects essential for climate journalism Climate change is already threatening human health, but there is little coverage of this connection in the U.S. media, experts said during a workshop organized by the Council for t...

Combating the health impacts of extreme heat In the aftermath of Hurricane Helene, it’s easy to see why natural disasters take center stage in policies addressing climate-related health risks. But the focus on catastrophic ...

CASW fellows cover ScienceWriters2024: Read their stories Among the audiences at the November ScienceWriters2024 meeting in Raleigh, N.C., were 17 CASW-supported reporters diligently taking notes and conducting interviews to inform covera...

“Yet We Rise”: Joseph L. Graves Jr. argues justice for HBCUs could transform science Donald Trump hasn’t taken office for his second term as President, yet the incoming administration has already promised major changes to government systems and programs. The camp...

Researchers strive to ease gold mining’s toll on the Amazon From a technical standpoint, extracting gold from soil without using mercury is very possible, says Miles Silman, the Sabin Professor of Conservation Biology at Wake Forest Univers...

Protecting workers from extreme heat Every year, an average of 34 workers die from heat exposure in the United States. Laboring in extreme heat conditions is not only dangerous, it is also costly: The value of U.S. la...

Extreme heat: Who is most vulnerable? Last year, extreme heat killed 2,325 people in the United States, a 117% increase in such deaths since 1999, according to an August study published in the Journal of the American M...

Exercise may manage blood pressure through the gut microbiome A North Carolina A&T scientist is promoting exercise in marginalized communities to target cardiometabolic disease through the gut. Marc Cook, a gut and vascular exercise immun...

A translator for the universe Hitoshi Murayama is a physicist who thinks big. Really big. “This is a redshift cosmic microwave background radiation picture of the Big Bang 13.8 billion years ago, or 380,000 ...

Science journalism’s role in a polarized post-election America Just days after the 2024 presidential election, Sunshine Hillygus, a political scientist at Duke University, addressed hundreds of science writers gathered for the Council for the ...

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