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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. Diseases dont respect national borders, and studies suggest that the Rio Grande region is considered a single, continuous landscape where zoonotic pathogens circulate freely.