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Climate and health: Stories to watch in 2025

Association of Health Care Journalists

Coverage must emphasize that past safety strategies may no longer work in todays climate, and highlight actionable steps to reduce carbon emissions within the current political landscape. Food and water insecurity. Journalists need to raise awareness among audiences that food and water availability is a health and climate issue.

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5 story ideas on migrant health crises facing U.S.-Mexico border

Association of Health Care Journalists

Much of the news coverage on the ongoing immigration crisis at the Mexico-United States border has been framed in terms of politics, economics and security. Sanitation crisis yields water and foodborne illnesses A critical, yet often overlooked, aspect of the border crisis is the lack of adequate sanitation and access to clean water.

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Immigration Detention Center Contractor Sues Over California Health Inspections

KFF Health News

Detainees have complained of health threats ranging from covid-19, mumps, and chickenpox outbreaks to contaminated water, moldy food, and air ducts spewing black dust. In 2021, California lawmakers passed a bill requiring private detention centers to comply with state and local public health orders and worker safety and health regulations.

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Immigration detention center contractor sues over California health inspections

HEALTHBEAT

“This case involves the latest in a string of attempts by the state of California to ban federal immigration enforcement in the state, or so significantly burden such efforts as to drive federal agencies and contractors involved in that constitutionally mandated national security function from California,” according to the lawsuit filed in the U.S