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This is from the Mendenhall River Floods in Alaska. This happened over a span of six hours. 😧 Can you imagine watching that happen to your home knowing there’s nothing that can save it?

This year’s insane heat has coincided with (perhaps driven?) a bit of a wedge between two leading “climate urgency science narratives”… 🧵

We are thrilled to announce the winners of the Rachel Carson Environment Book category of the 2023 #SEJAwards: conta.cc/3RIbrOf. Congratulations, winners! Stay tuned next week for the Outstanding Explanatory Reporting category.

How gas utilities used tobacco tactics to avoid gas stove regulations. My latest for NPR with editor Neela Banerjee and documents/research from Rebecca John at CIC. npr.org/2023/10/17/118…

Very worth reading if you care about or work in public media

Could not be prouder: the amazing NPR climate and data visuals team that did our project "Beyond the Poles", about the distant impacts of melting ice, has won the AAAS Gold Award for science journalism 1/n: sjawards.aaas.org/news/2023-aaas…

Congratulations to “Science Reporting – Large Outlet” Gold Award winning NPR team Lauren Sommer, @ryanjamescliff, Rebecca Hersher, Connie Jin and Daniel Wood. brnw.ch/21wEiMK

Our NPR investigation found thousands of veterans and servicemembers with VA loans are facing foreclosure through no fault of their own. The VA could fix this. npr.org/2023/11/11/121…

Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce as figures in the new U.S. National Climate Assessment report, a thread

I'm beyond excited to join the team at New Orleans Public Radio and 89.3 WRKF as a coastal reporter! Send tips to [email protected]

Hurricane Beryl has achieved the following: – Earliest Category 4 on record in Atlantic – Earliest Category 5 on record in Atlantic – Fastest intensification before September in Atlantic – Southernmost Category 4 on record The fingerprint of #climate change is a solid one.

MY LATEST: Texas prisons officials insist no inmates have died from extreme heat behind bars for more than a decade. But we got autopsies that show the heat was a possible (or likely) contributing factor to in least three deaths just last year. kut.org/crime-justice/… #txlege

“They say it's expensive to be poor. Well, it's expensive to experience a natural disaster.” npr.org/2024/07/31/nx-… By: Rebecca Hersher via @npr